After losing his job of 23 years, Jim packed up his family and moved over 2000 miles from southeast Pennsylvania to the western slope of Colorado. This season he has taken two elk, one turkey, and one bear in archery season and still has a third season rifle tag for deer. He killed this bear on September 22 of this year. After killing, deboning and packing out a cow elk the first week of archery, he repeatedly checked the kill site for bear sign. After a couple of weeks and still no sign, he figured nothing would come to the kill. Then it rained and he headed back up to the high country. Sure enough, there was bear sign all around the kill. The next morning he was set up before first light and at 8:25 he shot this bear at 8 yards.

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