I shot my first bear this afternoon while sneaking into a hit bait. Its a boar and I shot it at 250 yards with my dads .270. My first shot nailed him in the front shoulder and the bullet exited the arm pit. When I shot him he started rolling and bitting himself towards me and I shot it twice more hitting it in the hip and taking out another leg. After my next two insurance shots it loped 20 yards and was down. As im reloading I notice my first bear is on his feet and running for the black timber. I gave a foot in front of the head and shot again and this time it was down for good. Im having it rugged. My bear hide squares out at 5 feet and maybe 2 or 3 years old and its a boar.

Congrats...... bear hunting is addictive. What did you use for bait and what time did you shoot it? Sounds like you have a good start at your bear hunting history...... good luck in the future

Congrats young fellow! Nice job getting your first bear! Nice photos too..

great job young man, with many more...

That's great! Congratulations on what I hope is the first of many.

Congrats.. that is a beautiful bruin there... nice coat and face..
Nice shooting!
Can't wait to see the rug.

Nice job partner! Sounds like he was a tough bear.

Thanks for the comment, my bait consisted of bread pasteries and molases. I noticed your other thread where you were talking about strike indicators, I do the same thing basically just to keep ravens out of the bait.

thanks for the commentsand yea he was definately tougher then any deer ive shot lol

Great job !!

Its good to see youngsters hunting .