Day 2 for this stand and I blew a small bear out on the way in to the stand this evening. (Probably the same bear from last night.)

After being on stand for about 2 hours I hear the tell-tale sounds upstream telling me that there's a bear up there. Sure enough in about 20 minutes it's right under the stand. I actually had to think about shooting this one. It's way bigger than the one last night and a touch bigger than the one I've got on the wall but I fell back to the old adage that if you've got to think about it, it's not the one. It got to walk.



Think it got close enough?
Actually the good shots were at about 14 yards. The real close 7 yarder just didn't have the right angle, especially when you can see the bear thinking about how you might taste!