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About 10 yrs ago a buddy and I were hunting deer just after a fresh snow.  The plan was for me to sit  out at a point, and he would go around the mountain and eventually end up on top while I watched for anything he might kick out to come around the point.  So I found a spot about 75 yds down from the top where i could see a good way down the point.  After a while my buddy comes down off the top to where I was sitting and says "you gotta come see something."  So we go up to the top of the ridge and he shows me where a black bear had followed my tracks out to the point, and then sat down, about 75 yds above me, watching down to where I was sitting.  I never saw or heard the bear.  I was never in any real danger, as I was rifle hunting at the time, but it still puts a spook in you, that's for sure.

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Here is a link to an account of one of my kitty encounters:
http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=055765

QuoteOriginally posted by Walt Francis:
Here is a link to an account of one of my kitty encounters:
 http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=055765  

Why is it that some of MY best stories happen before season or without a tag? I swear Alaskan brownies and griz bears know whether or not a guy has a tag and have the seasons written on thier calendars!!!

When one of us has a brownie tag on Kodiak and we have deer hanging around camp ya gotta go miles to find 'em. Without a tag, they're stealing deer from ya left and right!!

I never been stalked but once while Grouse hunting in the Ochoco's of Oregon I walked into a large black bear with his face burried in the middle of a range calf. We were about ten yards from each other. He looked up with his bloody face, let out a woof and we both backed away.
It was a good lesson in paying attention.