Bearpaw Fall Season 2011

[Special T]

Not a bad trick. Several years back my crew had a hell of a time getting a big cow elk whole in to the back of a truck and there we 5 of us lifting.... We must have been doing it the hard way! 

[bearpaw]

MuleDeer
Dan here and Joey (previously shown) hunted with Anthony in Montana, Dan got his mule deer the day after Joey killed his whitetail, congrats to Dan....

Whitetail
Bill hunted the late buck season in Washington again this year. Last year he killed a nice 4x4 but wanted a bigger buck this year. He and I were out on the first morning of his hunt, we found a big buck track at an orchard on one of the ranches. It looked like the buck was chasing does so I told Bill he might want to sit and watch the orchard that evening. Right before dark this dandy showed up and Bill put the hammer down. Congrats to Bill on a fine buck....

[BOWHUNTER45]

Nice lookin bucks 

[ANDERWAGON]

Bearpaw, looks like a great season. Lots of happy people and some hooked kids.

Nice work out there… 

 

[bearpaw]

MuleDeer
Steve from Michigan shot a nice antelope with me in Montana 2 years ago. He returned this year to hunt MuleDeer and killed this buck with Anthony a couple weeks ago. Congrats to Steve on another great hunt.

Dale,
Had a great hunt with Anthony in Montana! Thanks for everything.

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Whitetail
Richard from Wyoming used to be a camp cook for me in my Idaho deer and elk camps. Four years ago he drew a moose tag and he killed a good bull moose. Three years ago he came cougar hunting in Idaho with us but while target practicing with his .50 pistol he accidentally blew off the end of his thumb in a freak accident and had to go to the hospital, long story short, it ended his cougar hunt early. Last year he returned for another cougar hunt and killed a nice cougar with Anthony and myself in Idaho. While he was there hound hunting with us he decided he wanted to put in for the Montana deer tag to hunt whitetails. He hunted a week ago with Anthony and killed this whitetail, a nice buck for a super nice guy.... congrats to Richard.

[bearpaw]

We are hunting cougar now and have had some good luck. Our first hunter from Denmark scored on a nice tom the first day, a 150ish tom. We cut several tracks and opted for what we thought was the best cat and in the best area to catch. We put the dogs on him shortly after daylight, the tracks were pretty cold but the dogs worked it through and caught up to the cat at a porcupine kill. You can see his gut is a little bloated looking, that's Mr. Porcupine.... 

Martin made an excellent shot, we took lots of photos and got out to the vehicles just before dark.....

[NWBREW]

That's a nice cat. 

[Guy]

Congrats!

That "portrait" photo of the cat is outstanding!

[Machias]

Sweeeeeeeeet

[mulehunter]

   Awsome

[bearpaw]

Brian posted up a photo already of the 2nd cat, so heres a couple different photos of the second cat which was taken by Soren. Another clean 1 shot kill. A couple things I noticed about this cat, he was 1 or 2 years younger than the first cat, a little smaller, he's a scrapper, and it looks like one eye may have been damaged fighting. This cat skinned out 8' 3 1/2", the first one was 8' 10 1/2", nose to tail.

Sounds like it's about dinner time, the danish guys have been cooking a danish gourmet meal for the last 3-4 hours, we are having danish meatballs for a starter, tuna something or other as a starter, then some danish potatoes, danish salad, and New York Roast (a rack of uncut New York Steaks) as the main meal, and some type of danish desert to finish up, along with some wine, crown royal, and beer. 

1 Hr Later:
OMG - It was delicious, I am sore, it was no meal, it was a feast fit for kings, a lot of kings, we were only able to eat about 1/4 to 1/2 of any of the dishes, we'll be eating leftovers for days.

Don't know how the desert tastes it will have to wait till tommorrow.

[Arteman]

Those are some pretty neat photos of those Lions, congrats to the hunters.  Looks like a good time.

[RB]

Cool thread like the stories and pictures 

[bearpaw]

Last night we finished of the Danish Potatoes and the Salad, we had cougar backstraps, and we had the Danish Desert, it was basically baked bananas smothered in brown sugar and butter over the top of vanilla ice cream, extemely tasty. Another awesome meal.

The Danish hunters left this morning, I was sorry to see them go, they were great fun and have given me an open invite to come hunt in Denmark or Poland with them. I also think they will be back next fall for Utah Trophy Elk Bugle Hunts. That should mean some more fun and photos next Septemeber.

[Ripper]

Sounds like a great time Bearpaw