Nice! I'm just hoping to see another Booner this year.

We went in on fresh tracks of a 9 footer that was working up a small creek yesterday. We ran headlong into a sow that was coming down the creek as we were going up. Which was good practice for keeping cool enough for a shot. Shortly after that our boar's tracks cut up out of the creek and went downwind so we moved off of him and on our way out ran into REALLY fresh tracks from Ol' Mo! We knew he was headed to bed so we got on them and followed them for a bit into the heavy alders (These tracks are like following someone on snowshoes, they're HUGE!) We got in and found a couple beds then we had a little pow-wow to discuss the swirling wind and that Mo might be just 20 yards ahead of us bedded down and that we should back out and set up on a couple exit routes in the afternoon to catch him when he got up. Right about then all Hell breaks loose; HOOOOOFFFF!!! GRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!! Crash! Snap! Crash! and he's gone. He was bedded just 40 yards from where we were and only 30 yards from where I was standing in his last bed. The wind had swirled around and hosed us. It was pretty amazing how fast my friend's rifle went from cross slung on his back with bow in hand to rifle on the shoulder with round chambered! We backed out and left him to settle down. I'll be back in there after work today. If I get a shot at the 9 footer it's going to be hard to pass up since I've got some empty floor space for a rug but I'd really like to get a shot at Ol' Mo. I'm pretty certain he's a world record bear and that rug would be more like wall-to-wall carpet!