Blackpowder Black Bear

[larryours]

Back in '90 I was on my second bear hunt to Canada, the (1st) in Quebec was a big flop and rip off, the 2nd which would be my actually first Blackpowder bear hunt. The guide put me in a ground blind(his first) since a hunter had scared the black bear off, by swatting at a pine squirrel at the wrong time, in a portable tree stand. Anyway it was interresting. I shot the bear at 7, yes seven yards, and he came through the smoke towards me, then cut down though the brush at 10 feet from where I sit. Yes it was very interresting, Has anyone else had a simiular experience ?