| Show I Iw w 4 f o I to f L rr S tt w F J. J JI N r rr tf Jt r- r Ir J d 11 jJ r tl J i Ip j I fl r. r J 1 J h Il f 1 I J A fo i ji t i BRUIN WAS HEADED for toll tall timber when this snap was taken token C tr d r r D' D e eTHE THE BEAR MEASURED 8 across and was a boar with age on him Hell sure make a beautiful rug commented Jon Hill Jon Hill bags black bear bearin in Bitter Creek area Jon Hill of Rangely Colorado got the makins makin's of an 8 a foot bear hear rug when he killed a black bear hear June 28 in the Bitter Creek region of Colorado Jon grandson of Doug and Eleanor Chew was hunting with a veteran bear and land lion l rg 1 Br Nay when he bagged his bear WE HEADED out just at daylight Jon said and started an old track the dogs all took down but no luck on that one About 10 am a.m. am a.m. the hounds picked up a fresh track but it was so obscured by cattle trails we v were getting ready to give up on that one Then about a half mile ahead we could see him standing up on the rim surveying us and his domain I lie He le didn't seem to be a bit upset As we worked him he fought the dogs and wouldn't tree Ahead of us we could hear one hound yelping and then silence and we thought Well hes he's got that one The dog had gotten away though and we could see seethe seethe seethe the bear going through the brush Bruce sneaked up and took some pictures practically jn in his face lace and I thought Boy that that's s close enough for lor me We worked him down and across a wash and I leveled a 7 MM l rifle slug at him just as he came out of the wash It slowed him up but he didn't go downIn downIn down In a little while hile we were almost on top of him and Bruce said Shoot him now I finished him with a 38 pistol Id I'd wanted a bear rug for a long longtime time TILE THE BEAU BEAR was a boar with some age on him and Bruce and Jon had him in the truck by 2 p pm m l He le measured 8 feet across The game warden informed them that a bear had been working on Albert Kirby and Harold Youngs Young's cows and that he had killed two of them one by ripping the head completely off |
