Bearpaw Season 2024

[pianoman9701]

Nice birds and smiles, Dale.

[bearpaw]

Nice birds and smiles, Dale.

Thanks John, I sure enjoy seeing these guys be successful and just having a good time. I get a lot of eastern hunters, they absolutely love seeing the northwest and bring up all sorts of little things that we take for granted.

For example, one of the guys from Mississippi said it was so nice to be able to cut through the woods in half darkness and not have to worry about cottonmouth snakes. All sorts of little things we all take for granted without even considering them.

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James from Alabama is one of our regular hunters, he likes to bring his camper out for him and his wife to stay in and they do a little extra vacationing when out west. This year his new truck broke down and he barely made it to our Idaho location to park his camper, then took the truck to a dealership for a new transmission. His wife stayed at the camper in Idaho and James drove a rental car to our Washington location for a turkey hunt.

After getting a good gobbler with guide Zach, James went back to our Idaho location and hunted spring bear with Gilbert, on the second evening James hit a good color phase but the bear took off. Fortunately three of my guides in Idaho have blood tracking dogs, Gilbert put the blood tracking dog on the blood trail and the dog found the bear but they were very deep in the bush. Brian went looking for them at midnight to make sure everything was OK, they were just getting back to the truck at 1am, they really had to work for this 6’-4” color phase. Congrats Guys!

It’s going to be another week before the shop gets his truck fixed so James and his wife are going to hang out and do some trout fishing until the truck is fixed.

Thanks for hunting with us again James, it’s always a pleasure having you folks here.

[Twispriver]

James turned lemons into lemonade 

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James turned lemons into lemonade 

He certainly did! 

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James decided to hunt a second bear in Idaho while waiting for his truck to be repaired. Tonight he drilled another one, it ran again, Brian took a couple pups to hopefully find the bear, it all worked out, the dogs found the bear and James notched his second bear tag, well done gentlemen, congrats James!

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First morning of Mikes hunt he drilled a nice 6’2” blackie with guide Gilbert. Great going guys!

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Second morning Emily and Mike watched this 5'11" boar for over an hour with guide Brian waiting for a good shot, finally the shot presented itself and Emily took advantage! Great job all!

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Amazingly elk calves are already being seen! Everything seems early this year!

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Some more nice birds taken this season.

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Been getting some "other" photos on the gobbler cams, these cams are set in turkey areas, they were not put out for big game, but there's more going on than turkey struttin, deer, and coyotes running around like I mostly expected!

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The bear lying down by the turkey blind really takes the cake!

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A great morning Hunt, Two hunters, four bird birds!

[Machias]

Nice, you got a red fox on camera!!  Only seen one up here so far!!  Nice looking bears!!!  It's amazing what all is walking around our areas!!