I recently moved to where the woods are in my back yard literally! I've done some scouting and only found one buck last year (7 pointer) and plenty of doe. This year no buck at all, not even a rub or scrape. The one thing though that got me wanting to hunt again was a bear.
I decided to take my 2 dogs with me for a walk in the woods. Something i hardly ever do. I was walking down a old logging road and chased a doe and 2 fawn out. While the deer ran off i had my dogs sit and i crouched down with them. I watched then for a little bit and one of my dogs looked over my shoulder like she saw something. I turned and looked nothing was there. I continued watching the deer,again the one dog looked over my shoulder. As i turned to look she started to growl. What i saw this time was the biggest black bear i ever saw. It went about 400 to 450 poundsmaybe bigger. It was also a cinnamon bear. As i got up the bear saw me and we both turned and went our seperate ways(or ran our seperate ways). My legs were pretty wobbly after that. The bear had followed us down the road. Bears are supposed to have such great sense of smell why didn't he go the other way? The bear was 20 yards away from us. I bought my first bear license this year. I hope to get this bear in Nov. There are 4 other bear around my house as well. One that goes about 300 pounds and the others are small ones. But i will settle for any of them.
For the first time in years i want to go hunting again. I missed a 4 pointer the last time i went out which was about 10 years ago and put my gun away. I'm like a kid at christmas time i can't wait until then. I will post pics if i do get any of those bear.