Bearpaw Season - Spring 2015

[bearpaw]

Did Radsav shoot a Rio and a Merriam?

It sure looks that way but they were taken at the same place, same morning. The property is home to one of the oldest flocks in Stevens County from the original plantings which I think were Rios. I can remember seeing turkeys there when I was a young kid in the 60's. The old rio influence is strong at that place, we see it pretty often.

[MLBowhunting]

Very nice.

[h2ofowlr]

Looks like a good start to the season.

[bowhunterforever]

Way to go

[Lefty315]

So that's why Fred wasn't in the taxidermy shop.

[bearpaw]

So that's why Fred wasn't in the taxidermy shop.

We had a great time, Fred killed a couple birds and he brought over another one of my trophies he recently finished.

[bearpaw]

On the first evening Mike and I spotted a large group of roughly 25 birds, all jakes and a couple real nice toms. We had to take a long route to get on them and barely made it into position in time. The birds were coming our way, we froze like statues, a group of about 6 jakes came within 10 feet and started putting and going back and forth right in our faces, the toms couldn't be seen, finally I told Mike if he wanted to take a jake he'd better do it and then stand up to try and see a tom.

He thought for a few seconds and made the decision, "kaboom" jake down, we jumped up and spotted one of the big toms at 40ish yards, "there he is"! But suddenly another jake got in the way and the tom got out of range without us having a shot opportunity, Mike says I'm going to take another jake "boom" another jake down! Mike said he's killed so many birds and has mounted all he's going to mount, he said it's more about the experience and it was just to good to pass up a jake slam on opening day. 

[Todd_ID]

Unreal!  Congrats to the hunters and to you for getting them on the birds so effectively.

[bearpaw]

Second morning found Fred and I after his second bird which we nailed and is shown in the previous post with his first bird. Oddly enough the hunters missed 8 birds that I can think of on the second day. It just wasn't a good day for the remaining hunters. In the evening our other bowhunter also got a nice long beard which he is having mounted. Unfortunately I don't have pics of Bob's bird. Congrats to Fred and Bob! 

I almost forgot to mention the auto episode! 

It wasn't bad enough that the day before season opened I had to get a ton of paperwork finished and the forum went down. I finally found someone to get the forum fixed and then I thought I would run my red/white suburban a bit just to make sure it was good to go and it decided to die. We worked on it a couple hours and suddenly it decided it was fine and started right up, in fact we started it ran it and repeated that about a dozen times.

I decided I might as well use it opening day and run it till it stopped again so we can try to fix it. It did well almost all day until it just stopped again in the early afternoon. I got a ride from Brian back to the house and got another suburban and finished the day with Mike getting the jake slam. 

After Fred killed his second bird on the second morning we made a recovery trip and hauled red and white home. It's in the back yard waiting to go to the mechanic, hopefully since it's broke down now we can figure out the problem. I swear, old hunting rigs are always 1 step from the bone yard no matter how much maintenance you do! 

[jackelope]

Hopefully that 'burb stays broken long enough to figure out what's wrong with it.
See you next week.

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[RadSav]

good job especially on those archery birds radsav!

Easier than it looks when you have a sexy bow that hates to miss and Bearpaw puts nice toms right in your lap!

Hardest part was getting that second arrow on the string before the second tom gets out of range.  First one was on the move right to left, but at 7.5 yards there's not much lead needed!  Second bird wasn't the smartest as he stopped to gobble once before making the mistake of running straight away.  Shot was 27 yards center back.  Worked out great because on that bow I shoot a 27 yard pin at both 7.5 yards and 27.  So didn't even need to hold over/under on the second bird. 

Third year in a row Bearpaw sets me up where I'm surrounded by birds within the first few hours opening day.  Six of my last 11 birds have been while hunting with Bearpaw Outfitters.  Always a good time with great people!  Might not be the high challenge and bird dogging the other five birds have been, but I've enjoyed it quite a bit.  Even if it does make for a short season with my two NE tags.  I will be back again next year

[bearpaw]

A few more birds that met their fate and the happy hunters who will be feasting on them. They also sacked up a couple varmints in between chasing the birds. Great shooting guys, I love it when a plan comes together!

[bearpaw]

Turkey season has been going well, Jim (on the right) doubled in the morning on a pair of long beards with guide Ray (left). Nice going guys!

[BOWHUNTER45]

Nice ...Hopefully I make it over in May 

[wsmnut]

Nice birds Dale.  Glad to see Ray's smile too!

Wsmnut