Not sure if this counts or not but the last bear I shot ( .358 win ) I had just climbed into my stand and had not loaded the rifle more than 5 minutes and a bear walked into the bait at 4.00 pm . Last fall within half an hour of my opening day of moose hunting I had a young bull come trotting in to my call and he met his demise to a bullet from my 7mm mag. This year its archery bear in September and then deer in October. We'll see. My archery moose hunt is already being planned for 2006.