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jaydee2trad wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 6:05 am hey it looked like you still had a blast. yeah, some people can be a problem but at least you found your camera, I have plenty of my own stories about that. you stuck to your original plan and that was hard, i'm sure. dragging a bear out just doesn't thrill me anymore LOL.

Ok maybe laziness played a part also. Lol!!pics are a lot easier

I once was driving thru Muddy Creek Wildlife Management area, on a curvy mountain as we made our way to a place we intended to hunt. As I looked down on my side, about 75 yards below us was a really big bear. My son would have shot it in a heartbeat but I knew that it was a long long ways to the bottom and this bear would end up near or at the bottom. So I kept my mouth shut until we were several miles down the road. Did my share of dragging game back up the mountain over the years and it ain't fun at all. A bear tends to become a huge bag of jello unlike a deer. I once decided against shooting a nice buck and let it go, my son agreed that what we would have had to go back thru just to get back to open timber of any sort would have been more of a nightmare than it already was. I call it the Worth Factor LOL