amassi
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Hit up the archery opener in D3,4,5
Friday morning the first 5 spots were packed(could not fit another vehicle) with trucks, so on to plan F.
Plan F, was to hunt escape routes out of the wilderness
So we only went in about 2 1/2-3 miles.
The good- lots of deer. And 4 small bucks to boot. 1 crab claw 3x3 provided a good stalk, just not a buck I wanted to hang a tag on this early in the season. Spent the next 2 days trying to turn him up for my buddy to no avail.
We also saw 6 bears 1 sow with 2 Cubs and 3 nice boars. 1 cinnamon color phase
Seemed like we couldn't hit a ridge without a bear on it or recently visited Some of the berry patches were absolutely mangled: bear scat everywhere, broken branches that were stripped etc.
The bad-Our camp(no where near a trail) was visited Sunday around 11 o clock, 2 dudes went through all our stuff but as far as we can tell didnt take anything. I did give LEO their pictures because it was just odd?!?!?! They were wearing street clothes and jansport style school backpacks
right after they left a mtn lion walked right through the middle of camp like it wasnt even there.
Interesting abstract: never seen so many people in the wilderness, also never seen so many bears in this area(no hounds starting to take affect?)
This "wilderness" now has att 4g cell service haha nothing like browsing rokslide in between glassing
Speaking of glassing, we turned all 4 bucks up with glass and they weren't red, all 4 had grey coats only the does were still bright red/orange. My buddy never seriously glassed and is now a convert.
Hi light of the trip: packed up and heading back to the nearest trail and I swear I hear a motor. Then a side by side comes over the ridge over 2 miles into the wilderness
Guys were totally clueless, even had 2 teenagers standing in the bed arrows nocked. Tried briefly to tell them that wasnt allowed, but they seemed like they wanted to escalate things too quickly so we just bid them good day
Then used that sweet 4g coverage to call forest ranger and surprised when they and county sheriff met us at the trailhead. I bet that ticket wasnt cheap, these bozos backed their trailer up to the rocks that closed the old fire spur and dropped their trailer tailgate over the rock, still had about a 2' drop to the ground. Only in California will you see people road hunt archery deer with a sxs in a wilderness area
Kind of a boring report, here's a pic of one of the smaller bears. When I get my trail camera chip back I'll put up pics of that big tom lion and those 2 weirdos.
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Friday morning the first 5 spots were packed(could not fit another vehicle) with trucks, so on to plan F.
Plan F, was to hunt escape routes out of the wilderness
So we only went in about 2 1/2-3 miles.
The good- lots of deer. And 4 small bucks to boot. 1 crab claw 3x3 provided a good stalk, just not a buck I wanted to hang a tag on this early in the season. Spent the next 2 days trying to turn him up for my buddy to no avail.
We also saw 6 bears 1 sow with 2 Cubs and 3 nice boars. 1 cinnamon color phase
Seemed like we couldn't hit a ridge without a bear on it or recently visited Some of the berry patches were absolutely mangled: bear scat everywhere, broken branches that were stripped etc.
The bad-Our camp(no where near a trail) was visited Sunday around 11 o clock, 2 dudes went through all our stuff but as far as we can tell didnt take anything. I did give LEO their pictures because it was just odd?!?!?! They were wearing street clothes and jansport style school backpacks
right after they left a mtn lion walked right through the middle of camp like it wasnt even there.
Interesting abstract: never seen so many people in the wilderness, also never seen so many bears in this area(no hounds starting to take affect?)
This "wilderness" now has att 4g cell service haha nothing like browsing rokslide in between glassing
Speaking of glassing, we turned all 4 bucks up with glass and they weren't red, all 4 had grey coats only the does were still bright red/orange. My buddy never seriously glassed and is now a convert.
Hi light of the trip: packed up and heading back to the nearest trail and I swear I hear a motor. Then a side by side comes over the ridge over 2 miles into the wilderness
Guys were totally clueless, even had 2 teenagers standing in the bed arrows nocked. Tried briefly to tell them that wasnt allowed, but they seemed like they wanted to escalate things too quickly so we just bid them good day
Then used that sweet 4g coverage to call forest ranger and surprised when they and county sheriff met us at the trailhead. I bet that ticket wasnt cheap, these bozos backed their trailer up to the rocks that closed the old fire spur and dropped their trailer tailgate over the rock, still had about a 2' drop to the ground. Only in California will you see people road hunt archery deer with a sxs in a wilderness area
Kind of a boring report, here's a pic of one of the smaller bears. When I get my trail camera chip back I'll put up pics of that big tom lion and those 2 weirdos.
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