Bearpaw Season 2009

[HUNT]

I agree with you Bearpaw.  If you have the right combo of rifle/shooter a 500 yard shot in open country with little or no wind is a decent shot. 

Great job on the bears this year.  I need to get with you one of these years......  Nice thread!

[luvtohnt]

That is to bad the hunter could not connect. For what is worth I would agree the rifle was not sighted in properly. I went to the range one day and they had a metal target I think 8"x8" and it was at 500 yards. I had never shot my rifle that far but it was sighted for dead on at 300. Just knowing my ballistics and approximate drop at 500 I hit it on the first shot, and knocked it over so I could not shoot again until the range was clear. It should be a fairly easy shot even with a 270WSM. It all comes down to more time at the range. After hearing some of the stories this year I am surprised that more guides don't require range eval for clients.

Brandon

[NataSS]

Small world.  I found bear paw while researching WA black bear hunting and before I joined this site.  After checking out some of your video and pricing, I told the wife that if I get skunked for the 9th year in a row, I would be calling you guys for a guided bear hunt. 

[Little Dave]

Really enjoyed the bear and wolf pictures!
Great season.

[Gutpile]

Holy schnikies!!! 12-15shots? I've had that happen with grouse when I was young and I was going for a head shot and just kept missing. They would just run around in circles till you killed them or ran out of shots.       That poor guy must have been embarassed as all get out missing that many shots though. I don't believe I'd ever tell anybody if that happened to me.

[mulehunter]

  NICE wolf!!!  My turn!

Mulehunter 

[wolfbait]

*censored*, I just found this part of Wa hunting, I need to get out more,,,,,,,great pictures Dale! Haven't had time to read the stories yet but I plan on it,,,,,,Take care, n keep your powder dry, or out of the snow anyway ,,,,wolfbait

[bearpaw]

Hello Folks, have been busier than I can describe, but getting a few good animals. I will talk more when I have time.....

Here's a nice mule deer from Utah and a nice mule deer from Idaho.

My wife has the whitetails nailed down and waiting for rifle season to open, we don't have many rifle whitetail hunters but hopefully will get a few photos to post.

Elk opened this morning in my area of Idaho and we have two bulls down so far....gotta go...

[bearpaw]

gutpile....you are scaring me with those avatar photos...

[Machias]

Nice looking deer!!!  We've been missing your inputs, but I know you've been busy!

[bearpaw]

Apologies Machias, but I have to take care of business first, October is the busiest month for my wife and I. Talk again soon, hope you all smack a big one....

[GoldTip]

Looks like your guides and hunters are having a great season Bearpaw, congrats.

[Wacenturion]

gutpile....you are scaring me with those avatar photos...

 ...I see Gut has that spooky avatar up again.  Thought he had ditched that one.  Creepy.  Imagine climbing up in your tree stand before first light and seeing that.............lol.  Hey.........Bearpaw................didn't mean to spook ya the night before the general opener.  Make sure you check those tree stands though....lol.

[bearpaw]

Well, we ended up 3 for 8 on our Idaho elk hunt, unfortunately no big bulls on that hunt, all young ones spike, fork and 3 point. A good 5x5 outsmarted us on the third day and Yesterday the last day of the hunt, Anthony had worked to within 100 yards (heavy cover) of a good 6x6 and suddenly boom, someone was after the same bull from the other side...

OH well, they had as much right to get him as us, and they were just a little faster....

Hope to post some photos of the bulls we got soon.

Trying to find time to get Cammy my shorthair out for a hunt, she is going nuts, I swear she knows it's bird hunting time....

The big 170's buck is still alive in Washington, two guys are doing an unguided hunt on that ranch this week so hopefully we'll get some photos of them with him. 

[bearpaw]

Big 190ish muley jumped in his bed yesterday at 80 yards, big tall main frame with two or three trash points on both sides, hunter couldn't get off the shot at a moving buck, he wasn't spooked bad so we are working on him today, fingers crossed.