Bearpaw Season 2024

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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!!

I still have not actually seen a fox in NE Washington 

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Daniel spotted this fawn yesterday, earliest fawn we’ve seen in the northeast.

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John nailed a nice Idaho blackie last night, congrats!

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We had a nice buck on this property last fall that we didn’t get, too early to tell if it’s the same buck, but this should be a pretty decent buck.

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More velvet bucks…

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We haven’t seen this bear before, he just showed up on one of our leases!

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Antlers grow amazingly fast this time of year!
Still getting lots of bear photos too!

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Newborn

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The last group of bear hunters had another great hunt. Ethan from Colorado got two good bear last season, this year he repeated with two more great bear, a 7’ blackie and a 5’6” chocolate, both with guide Gilbert. Great job guys!

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Shane is a hound hunter from Wisconsin but rarely can draw a bear tag to shoot a bear for himself. He wanted to hunt one with the hounds, they started one with the dogs early in the morning, it ran like the wind, made a couple big loops in no man’s land the circled toward the guys, there was a pup with Brian and Shane, as the chase was coming straight toward them so the pup headed in to get in the chase with the other dogs, as luck would have it, the pup got 50 yards from the guys and suddenly opened up loudly, then the guys saw the bear scurry up a big tree right by the pup, what a coincidence! The rest of the hounds were just seconds behind and all joined the pup at the tree.

Next Shane hunted a bear on bait and even though he was intending to get a chocolate bear he decided not to pass the next bear he saw and ended his hunt with two blackies down!

(Bottom photo was a little bloody on the log, my quick cover up on the blood is pretty obvious!)

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Everyone seemed to want two bear this last hunt, Jayme first nailed a nice big dark chocolate boar and then he filled his second tag with a 5-10 blackie, both with guide Grant! That 2nd bear sure has a funny rub on its head, bound to be a little conversation about that when he gets it on the wall! Congrats Jayme, well done guys!

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Drew’s 6’2” blackie caught this morning with the hounds!

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Robert (dad) tagged out the first evening of his hunt with a nice chocolate bear, the next morning Jacob (his son) stalked in with guide Grant and notched his tag on another chocolate bear, which was his first bear ever. Great job by all!

FYI: You’ll notice breeds of dogs other than hounds in some of the photos I post, these are blood tracking dogs and they do a great job of finding wounded game. We use them nearly every week of the season. My guides have several blood dogs, a Jack russell,  a mixed breed, a black lab, and a cow dog, they all do a great job of finding game that doesn’t drop right away. The jack russell is especially amazing, he will bay up a wounded 7 foot bear on his own, he is all about being aggressive, weighing only about 8 or 10 pounds I'd say he must have no common sense at all!

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Awesome!!  Nice bears being taken!!

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Doug dropped this 6’6” chocolate on the 2nd day of his hunt! Doug hunts spring bear every year with us, this is his biggest bear so far!