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HUNTING THE MURPHY BEARS

By Raymond Oelrich - Big Game Adventures Magazine

Your hunt is never the same when Murphy decides to join in. I have a recurring nightmare about a huge black bear that stands barely 60 yards away. The front bead of my Savage 99 settles on his shoulder where it meets his neck, and I silently slip the safety off. As the bear slowly lifts his nose to detect any uncertain scent, my finger tightens on the trigger. In an instant, after years of trying, I will finally have a bear on the ground that will most likely make Boone & Crockett. Then...

BIG BOAR BLACK BEAR

By Steve Simmerman - Mountain Hunter Magazine

Perspiration trickled down my forehead, ran between my eyes and over the bridge of my nose until it dripped off into my lap. My left arm began to ache a bit, and I started to lose feeling in the fingers of my hand. As I supported the rifle and peered through the scope, I had so many thoughts running through my mind it was hard to focus. Then the big bear stood on all fours, swaggered to the edge of the logging road and turned full broadside to me...

BLACK BEAR BONANZA

By Ron Spomer - American Hunter Magazine

It was too hot to hunt bears. We were hunting bears. The mountain glaciers were melting so fast the lake in front of camp rose 2 feet in three days. But we were seeing bears. Big ones. "That's about a 6-and-a-half footer," Abe Dougan said as we crouched in a skid trail, watching the black animal amble toward us, collecting olfactory intelligence. We'd hiked up that path two hours earlier. "Look at him sniff our tracks," I whispered...

HITTING AN INCREDIBLE BEAR JACKPOT

By Mike Jines - Safari Magazine

To some, the phrase, "Daily Double" may conjure thoughts of a television game show. To others, the phrase connotes the latest state lotto game. I, on the other hand, am referring to an altogether different game - those big black bears that walk the majestic mountains of British Columbia and the prospect of hitting my own lotto - two trophy bears in the same afternoon...