This is a little belated but I spent opening weekend and Labor Day in a stand overlooking a wallow.

Had some other hunters come by the stand and kinda mess up my area a little and had no legal elk come to the water.  That however, didn't seem to mess up the bears daily routine...saw 4 different bears (one a little cub) and had an extremely close encounter with one black bear.

I got down from the stand during the heat of the day to sit in the shade. Around 2:30 pm I got up to get back in the stand and saw a blackie coming in.

I stood still as he got in the water, messed around a little on the log, walked over and grabbed my trail cam (caught him in the act as up till then I only had pics of the crime) bit it several times, (about 8 yds away) then started towards me. He had no idea I was there, and the wind was right, and when he got to about 4 yds I let him know...and he promptly left       :eek:  

In the wonderful state of CO, the bear hunt doesn't start on the same day as deer and elk so even if I had a tag I could only watch          :mad:    

Here are some pics and videos (hopefully)

All in all I had a great hunt and will be back at them soon.  
               

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Good stuff, bro!  Stay after it!

Nice

JAKE...that sounds like idaho...deer one day elk another...antlerless now atlered only then and so on and so on...gota carry the regs with ya

getting out of here on friday for two weeks of elk huntin...bear would fit right in too!!!

tks for sharing...DON

Thanks for posting Jake.

Thank you for sharing!

I love the rainbow photo almost as much as the bear.

God bless,Mudd

Did u have to change ur drawers?  Lol!

Great pictures Jake!

Great pics Brother, hang in there.
Tom

thanks for sharing

I love that stand location.  Lets get after them soon...if it ever stops raining!!