The officer put a trap on out hunting lease a couple of weeks ago. I guess he needs to chatch 8 bears pre year for some reason or another from what I am told. Well they moved the trap this Friday morning at 10 am to our one food plot with corn planted in it. That same day when I got home from work I had to get turnips in the one food plot. This is like 4:30pm i got to the plot and was putting seed in the spredder and I was hearing this banging. Then a light bulb went off and said to myself there one in the trap. The trap is like 300 yards through the woods from me.Got done planting and went and took a look and the door was closed. So the officer was called and the next morning came out
He shot it with a dart and it only took a couple of min and it was a sleep. While we were waiting it to go under we looked up the pipeline and there stands a cub up on its hind legs looking around probable like 500 yards away. The officer asked my daughter if she wanted to help put the tags in her ears. She was all over that. They tagged both ears.
Then he pulled her milk tooth to get sent away to age her. Then he weigh her and est her at 168#. He told us that is the smallest he caught his year. He also said the other officer caught one that was a little bit bigger then her and was 7 years old. So hopefully we will be able to find out her age.
I asked him after she gets up from this how long will it take her to find her cubs and he said not long at all. Then we were talking around the trap and noticed all of these footprints all over the top of the trap. Must of beed her little one or ones from Friday night.
We had the option to have her released or be taken away. Since my father and brother likes to hunt bear it was released right there and the trap is gone. Maybe next year he will want to come back but who knows that be the last time my family will get that experience. It was pretty cool I try to get a couple more pics up
