Excellent! Congrats. Nice to that .458 get some work.

I have never shot a bear. Had the chance once with my bow. I was crossing a ravine and when I got down to the bottom I heard some rustling to my right. I thought it was a deer but as I turned my head back to the left I locked eyes with a bear at 20 yards. Once the bear realized that I saw it. The big beast turned broadside and offered me a nice shot. I was new to the mountains so I decided just to watch its behavior and I did not have a tag. It was a big sow with cub. The cub is what I heard rustling around to my right. She started to walk off slowly to my left then I almost SH!T myself when she stood up on a stump (35 yards) and started to snort and jump to see if I would run. I just turned a little sideways so my backpack and bow made me look a little bigger. She had put me between her and the cub. Then she cricled to my left and went her way and I went mine. Apparently we were just using the same path through the ravine and we met face to face at the bottom. SInce then I have seen bears on the roads comming around corners or across a canyon.