I look forward to future posts as the season progresses. Good luck and I am glad you live to hunt another day.
Thanks so much for keeping us up to date with the bears, Rob!! Years ago, I used to live vicariously through Arctic Bowman's posts... Now I do yours.
Guys give up on the house, I have met Josy...and you don't stand a chance. She's a mean cook, a great personality, loves hunting, and can fit in around "the guys". Winning THAT lotto is a pipe dream. If I were you Will, I'd start bartering for the rights to the sauna. You could convert it to a small bunkhouse. :D Or just camping rights up by the concrete caribou target, though from experience I'd reccomend a sleeping pad! ha.
Well you can skip the annual stress test at the doctors office.If your ticker held up to that encounter it is in excellent order! Definitely a different experience I would imagine when you are hunting in an area with a weapon that doesn't place you on the top of the food chain.
Dang Rob... that's pretty nuts. I was a little freaked out walking through the alders on the Moose River and I hadnt even seen a bear yet!! Keep us up to date.
pure insanity ... i do like that set up though.. treestand and grizzlies? I have never heard of this.. but makes perfect sense over a food source like that.. wow.. very intriguing! yeah my azz would be puckered too running into that big sucker at 15 feet in the dark.. geesh..
Yeah, That would make anyone pucker up. I was fishin on the Kenai and had about an 8 footer across the river fishing but no close encounters. Good Luck killin one... theres way too many.
I've been in a second location the last couple nights. This is the same stand I had a lot of action out of last year for those who were following and there's been some traffic through there pretty regularly, just not on my watch. It's a guppy about the size of the one I've already shot. The weather's getting colder and hopefully the big boys will move back into the drainage soon. Yesterday morning someone shot a 7' sow with a rifle up the hill from my opening day stand. http://s252.photobucket.com/albums/hh22/robswanson/Kodiak 09/Bear 09/
Awesome! Way different then spooking a deer on the way in. I would've freaked for sure. Keep the posts coming.
Here's the bear that I ran into opening morning that inspired this post. My friend Cole is a guide and had a friend from KS here for a bear. They weren't having any luck in their unit so I told them to come into town and I would hook them up with a couple bears I knew of. I gave them the scoop on this bear Sat. night and they shot it the day after. It was a little bigger than I had judged him but not the 10+ bear I'm looking to fill my next tag with. I was happy to oblige and they were thrilled with the bear; a fine 24", 9', 8-9 yr. old boar with an incredible hide... good thing he didn't come under my stand or I may have been too tempted to let him walk!!! Congrats to Mike and Cole on a fine bear! I'm headed into a different spot tomorrow for my last day of bear hunting. There's more fish in this spot and a lot of fresh sign in the snow. The original spot seems to have dried up. The big boys never made it back in there this year due to a lack of fish in this system and plenty of fish in other systems. I was in today during a blizzard and there were no fresh tracks so I'm relegating my treestands to fox hunting later this winter.
I woulda pissed my pants.... I am worried enough bout black bears that I have bumped into while hunting here..... I couldn't imagine bumping into that bad boy!
