Just booked a spring bear hunt!!!! Did i screw up?

[longrange7mm]

Just got off the phone with the outfitter, i gave him our security deposit. Know its time for anticipating . It should be a great hunt, my granddad has been battling cancer for years and wanted to go on a hunt with my step dad and I, In Oct we went deer hunting in WY but we just couldn't get him on the buck he had been scouting. Last week i was talking to my grandma and she mentioned that that is all he has been talking about since i left in nov. A couple days ago my step dad mentioned an outfitter he was looking into for a bear hunt in Saskatchewan, as all kids do i said well i wanna go !  I called the outfitter and asked him his accommodations, Its a 7 day hunt, we well get a private 3 bedroom cabin, 2 meals a day, first class guided pike and walleye fishing in the morning, afternoon bait site hunting, they can take my grandpa into the stand via four wheeler, there are two up stands so we can hunt together, they skin, flesh and salt hides, they cut and freeze your meat, over 40 active bait sites, they only hunt 6 people a week, and they have a 100% opportunity 90% success the only hunters that don't harvest a bear are the color phase hunters they have 30% color phase bear ratio. i was thinking this hunt was gunna run some were around 5k-6k, when i asked his rates he was less than 2k and that includes license and taxes. So me being impulsive like i am pulled out my visa! they have been outfitting this area for 13 years and there hunts include black bear, whitetail, and moose. They have a really nice website and gallerys. Did i make a good or bad decision? know that i have thought about it i dunno if it was a little to impulsive guess im just hoping that he isnt sitting in his chair thinking "SUCKER"

[wrangler]

do they have a name?

[Ridgerunner]

probably wouldn'te have hurt to get some references before giving him the visa card.  Sounds like a great deal though.  Those canadian bear hunts over bait are generally pretty much slam dunk hunts though.   Whats the name of the outfit?

[longrange7mm]

flotten lake here is a hyperlink http://www.flottenlake.com/

[rasbo]

hunting over bait is cool wish we could here.Much better way to pick and choose

[Alan K]

Maybe they've been hit hard with the economy and just reduced prices.  Combine that with them desperate to fill the last few slots during one of their hunting weeks, and you've got a pretty cheap hunt.

Hope that's whats going on anyways.

[Austrian Hunter]

Below $2K, I that is almost to low, whats his name?

[longrange7mm]

Maybe they've been hit hard with the economy and just reduced prices.  Combine that with them desperate to fill the last few slots during one of their hunting weeks, and you've got a pretty cheap hunt.

Hope that's whats going on anyways.

I hope that as well but for the price i was willing to gamble on some of there video footage and pictures

[Shootmoore]

I think I would have checked them out a bit more first.

As far as impulsive did you think out the total cost and not just the cost for accomidations and the hunt?  Three of you going right?

So 2000 x 3 is 6000
airfare x 3 at what about 3-500 a piece?  up to 1500
rental car to get from the airport to the location 500?
food for lunches (I need more than 2 meals a day) 300?
Passports if you dont already have them 100 x 3 300
permits to transport firearms into Canada (cost?)
Unkown hidden costs etc etc..

Probably looking at about 10k for 7 days.
Shootmoore

[longrange7mm]

I think I would have checked them out a bit more first.

As far as impulsive did you think out the total cost and not just the cost for accomidations and the hunt?  Three of you going right?

So 2000 x 3 is 6000
airfare x 3 at what about 3-500 a piece?  up to 1500
rental car to get from the airport to the location 500?
food for lunches (I need more than 2 meals a day) 300?
Passports if you dont already have them 100 x 3 300
permits to transport firearms into Canada (cost?)
Unkown hidden costs etc etc..

Probably looking at about 10k for 7 days.
Shootmoore

Thanks shootmoore for your  , i have been on a couple guided hunts, we all have passports, we will be driving. the cabin has a kitchen as well and the store is about an hour away for extra food we may want. the outfitter told us about transporting firearms and has sent me an email with the laws included. my granddad will be the only one shooting a rifle my step dad and i are going archery. also the exchange rate he is doing american dollar

[longrange7mm]

Below $2K, I that is almost to low, whats his name?

flotten lake the outfitter is derrek rempel

[Shootmoore]

I think I would have checked them out a bit more first.

As far as impulsive did you think out the total cost and not just the cost for accomidations and the hunt?  Three of you going right?

So 2000 x 3 is 6000
airfare x 3 at what about 3-500 a piece?  up to 1500
rental car to get from the airport to the location 500?
food for lunches (I need more than 2 meals a day) 300?
Passports if you dont already have them 100 x 3 300
permits to transport firearms into Canada (cost?)
Unkown hidden costs etc etc..

Probably looking at about 10k for 7 days.
Shootmoore

Thanks shootmoore for your  , i have been on a couple guided hunts, we all have passports, we will be driving. the cabin has a kitchen as well and the store is about an hour away for extra food we may want. the outfitter told us about transporting firearms and has sent me an email with the laws included. my granddad will be the only one shooting a rifle my step dad and i are going archery. also the exchange rate he is doing american dollar

Sounds like a good deal to me then.  I have never done a guided hunt before so your 2 up on me there.  My friends call me a cheap arse, I prefer frugal   Hell even if the hunting is not good, looking at motel prices online the price is not bad even if its for a nice camping trip out in the woods with family.

Shootmoore

[longrange7mm]

I think I would have checked them out a bit more first.

As far as impulsive did you think out the total cost and not just the cost for accomidations and the hunt?  Three of you going right?

So 2000 x 3 is 6000
airfare x 3 at what about 3-500 a piece?  up to 1500
rental car to get from the airport to the location 500?
food for lunches (I need more than 2 meals a day) 300?
Passports if you dont already have them 100 x 3 300
permits to transport firearms into Canada (cost?)
Unkown hidden costs etc etc..

Probably looking at about 10k for 7 days.
Shootmoore

Thanks shootmoore for your  , i have been on a couple guided hunts, we all have passports, we will be driving. the cabin has a kitchen as well and the store is about an hour away for extra food we may want. the outfitter told us about transporting firearms and has sent me an email with the laws included. my granddad will be the only one shooting a rifle my step dad and i are going archery. also the exchange rate he is doing american dollar

Sounds like a good deal to me then.  I have never done a guided hunt before so your 2 up on me there.  My friends call me a cheap arse, I prefer frugal   Hell even if the hunting is not good, looking at motel prices online the price is not bad even if its for a nice camping trip out in the woods with family.

Shootmoore

well that makes two of us im a lil to tight with my money. except for some reason hunting brings impulsive spending habits out in me. although this is the first one i have paid for, the taxidermist i used to work for would always trade hunts for work and he would take me along sometimes, if they wanted alot of work done. It should b a good time with my granddad any way.

[JackOfAllTrades]

I wouldn't say that you screwed up at all. I think I would have shopped a little more. A lot of guides and outfitters are hurtin right now. I think I would have looked hard at some of the opportunities to hunt big Blackies on Vancouver Island. -Only because it's a bit closer.

we will be driving.

Blackbear are U.S. Federally protected/managed. Yup! So, before you go, get with the U.S. Customs office in Blaine or Sumas to get the required forms to 'import' your Bear meat. It's a simple process. Pain in the arse if you don't do the paperwork and get questioned at the border.

-Steve

[SkookumHntr]

-Hell no, have a hoot and take lots of pics!