Terrible end to a great season.

[bowtech36]

Decided to hunt a new area with a guy I had talked to a couple times. (Very nice guy). Well we started a track early with his dog she opened up on top the ridge. Switched back up and turned my dogs in to hers and the bears track. Got on top turned a friends dog in. They were on a good race, long story short they caught in a very deep nasty rock canyon. My father in law, two others and I headed to the bear. The guy were hunting with stayed back as he had a young boy with him and what we were headed into was literaly hell. Just a four hour wall of griese and buck brush. Sometimes you were crawling on the ground, sometimes you were crawling five feet of the ground on top of the brush half an hour to move 15 feet. Eventually when we got above the dogs they stopped making noise. (Crap). However that's not the bad part. When my father in law asked for my tracker I turned and saw his job drop. My back pack had torn open somewhere, how; I don't know I had a gun slung over my back as well holding it down. I lost a brand new video camera, another digital camera, a range finder, my tracking box, a 380 pistol, and my tracking box. Well over 2000 dollars gone. We spent hours and couldn't find it. Could barely find the spuratic broken limb from our way in as we took separate trails 50 feet our so down . Went back the next day but was snowed out couldn't even get close to the area. Just been feeling sick and down since that last friday.

[Unreal_tk]

That sucks man, a gps is damn handy for those situations. I've lost my astro last year in the night, luckily it was only a 100 yrd stretch that I had lost it in and was able to recover it. I have often thought about picking up a new one to leave in the truck when I go on walks.

[bowtech36]

yeah really sucks, i've slowy aquired all of that, being in college and trying to hunt I don't exactly have the funds to replace it. Wish my box would of had some locator beacon on it lol.

[not color blind]

Yeah, but did you get the bear??

[kiwi]

Do you have a GPS unit because that marks a trail where you walk. Follow the little trail back and hopefully recover your gear
My GPS unit and radio are in a pouch with a shoulder harness
That's a lot of gear to lose, sorry to hear that

[bowtech36]

Yeah, but did you get the bear??

no I didn't don't know what happened as we crested above where the dogs were we didn't hear a sound. The guys blue dog got cut by the bear needed 14 staples, but unfortunetaly he got away leaving only a big question mark and an empty pack.