No baiting here either in BC.

I visited our new 1,000meter range yesterday - saw two young black bears on the side of the highway on the way out, along with a yearling cub at the range. I suspect someone shot his mom as he was alone. He/it appeared to be a runt - quite small for a yearling and too big for this year's cub.

We've called the little guys (including 2 & 3 year old's) 2 footers or mickey mouse - whichever comes to mind at the time.

Was a nice boar we didn't get to see in Mike's area one fall - put down a 7 1/2" front pad track - that's a big black bear. The splits in the rear of his front claws were 3/8" wide at the pad. The claws were a good 1 3/4" to 2" on the curve.

My hunter/s actually didn't want to see him and got quite excited when I started bawling on my fawn in distress call. He thought he would have to pay by the foot, or some such Euro nonsense. They refused to go back to the big bear's domain, so I took them to another area, over a saddle & down into a bottom area of two old slashes connected by a short lush grass patch through the trees. There were grizzly 'piles' all over - up to 15" wide and 6" high- some with hawser 'ropes' 3" in diameter. Figured a 'good' bear in the area. I pulled my call out asked him/them if he'd like to see that one.

Guess they didn't like my jokes! HA! They really complained about that 'encounter' as well as the big black bear track and my calling him - he got a different guide then gut shot the first cub they saw on the road - just a couple miles from camp - at lunch time, the outfitter had to use his Austrian tracking dogs (black and tan) to find track it down, then he killed it.

The poor little bugger suffered for a couple hours. Seems even the little 2 year old cub frightened him into missing, or perhaps he just shook too much, aiming over the truck's hood.

Guess I didn't notice his 'bear distress' when quiding him. I was packing my .458 Alaskan, afterall, 350gr. TSX at 2,450fps. I wasn't the least concerned and he had an ought 6(that also frightened him). I had to check the sights for him as he just didn't shoot well, even in camp. So much for having to meet accuracy requirements to get a licence? Maybe not in some Euro countries?