http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEbxXTw2pRs          


This is the short version of Tracy's bear hunt.I'm not sure why this video looks so unsteady.It was not that way until it was uploaded on youtube.It took 4 tries to get it to upload so for now this is what we have.
Tracy also killed a deer on the last evening of her hunt.We do not have video of that one,but I will try to get her to tell the story later.

More video and pictures to come.
Bill

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzt-DGYok5s      
This is the link to my buck video.Hope you like it.
Bill

Fantastic video ! Way to go Tracy !

This trip has another video.This one is mine,a buck I shot in one of my favorite oak flats.Hopefully it will not take 4 tries to get it to load.Like Tracy's bear video did.
Bill

The last story is a small doe Tracy shot on the last evening of our hunt.She put a very lethal shot on the deer so it just barely made it out of sight.We do not have vidoe of that hunt because it was raining to hard to take the camera out.There was a little extra excitement at the end of this trail.The deer died right on an atv trail.When my dad brought up the atv to haul the deer out he ran a skunk right down the trail we were all standing on.The skunk ran right through the middle of 4 of us standing around the downed deer.Luckily there was no assault on the olfactory glands.         That could have been stinky.
Bill

Sounds like a great hunt Bill!

food plot

 
a match set of sheds found in a hay field this spring

 
My buck,video to come, as soon as it is done loading on youtube

 
Tanner making sure my buck does not get away

 
still waiting

river crossing


a bend in the river


Tracy's bear


Tracy's last minute deer

awesome pictures!! looks like a great time.

Great video.

Nice! Thanks for sharing.

God bless,Mudd

Awesome hunt. Congrats to both of you. I love to see the effects of that post adrenaline dump shaking the tree.

I wish AZ allowed bloodtrail dogs that Tanner would be just the ticket on elk.

REALLY GOOD. Tracy, Congrads on your 1st trad bear, I share your emotions, That is something you will never forget,,,,well until you get to my age anyway. Great work Bill, Filming may be the way to make a living in Traditional bowhunting??? See ya soon.

Thanks for sharing! Great story and video, Congratulations Tracy !
GLENN

Thanks for sharing, we have a Decker terrier we use for blood trailing. He has the same issue as Tanner just has no fear of bears or any thing else.

Great first bear.

Congrats Bill and Tracy! Great story, pics and trophies.      

Great Video and Great hunt. Congrats Tracy

   

Awesome!  Was waiting for this post.  Enjoyed it last year.

Very cool!!! The bears have been hitting the bait in the middle of the night and early morning for us as well. It has ben very tough this year to get one in during daylight hours. Congratulations to both of you on a fine MN hunt, a real nice bear and a good buck and a nice doe to top it off I would say that is a succesful hunting trip..Henry

Congrats Bill and Tracy. For sharing this hunt with us, Thank you.

Butch L