Post by: bearpaw on April 15, 2015, 11:33:14 AM
Check out the tom in the 5th photo, in the back yard at one of the ranches we hunt! :chuckle:
Post by: bearpaw on April 15, 2015, 11:33:58 AM
We tried another hunt without success and left for another property, soon we had more birds spotted and Nate and I put a stalk on a henned up gobbler. "Boom" Nate had his 2nd longbeard down before lunch, great shooting! We exchanged hand shakes, snapped lots of photos, and then had a nice lunch, I love it when a plan comes together!
Nate and his dad were great people, it was my pleasure hunting with them, congrats Nate! :tup:
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Post by: bearpaw on April 15, 2015, 02:23:35 PM
Radsav already tagged out with his bow on two nice longbeards, I'm telling you that guy is deadly with a bow in his hands, pretty good with a rifle too. :tup:
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Post by: ribka on April 16, 2015, 05:49:12 PM
We got another bird after I posted, so 6 longbeards for the morning hunt, well one beard got blown off so I guess that one is more of a shortbeard now! LOL :chuckle:
Radsav already tagged out with his bow on two nice longbeards, I'm telling you that guy is deadly with a bow in his hands, pretty good with a rifle too. :tup:
Post by: bearpaw on April 16, 2015, 09:27:36 PM
Did Radsav shoot a Rio and a Merriam?
It sure looks that way but they were taken at the same place, same morning. The property is home to one of the oldest flocks in Stevens County from the original plantings which I think were Rios. I can remember seeing turkeys there when I was a young kid in the 60's. The old rio influence is strong at that place, we see it pretty often.
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Post by: bearpaw on April 18, 2015, 06:53:03 PM
So that's why Fred wasn't in the taxidermy shop.
We had a great time, Fred killed a couple birds and he brought over another one of my trophies he recently finished.
Post by: bearpaw on April 18, 2015, 07:11:29 PM
He thought for a few seconds and made the decision, "kaboom" jake down, we jumped up and spotted one of the big toms at 40ish yards, "there he is"! But suddenly another jake got in the way and the tom got out of range without us having a shot opportunity, Mike says I'm going to take another jake "boom" another jake down! Mike said he's killed so many birds and has mounted all he's going to mount, he said it's more about the experience and it was just to good to pass up a jake slam on opening day. :chuckle:
Post by: Todd_ID on April 18, 2015, 07:51:05 PM
Post by: bearpaw on April 18, 2015, 07:53:17 PM
I almost forgot to mention the auto episode! :chuckle:
It wasn't bad enough that the day before season opened I had to get a ton of paperwork finished and the forum went down. I finally found someone to get the forum fixed and then I thought I would run my red/white suburban a bit just to make sure it was good to go and it decided to die. We worked on it a couple hours and suddenly it decided it was fine and started right up, in fact we started it ran it and repeated that about a dozen times.
I decided I might as well use it opening day and run it till it stopped again so we can try to fix it. It did well almost all day until it just stopped again in the early afternoon. I got a ride from Brian back to the house and got another suburban and finished the day with Mike getting the jake slam. :chuckle:
After Fred killed his second bird on the second morning we made a recovery trip and hauled red and white home. It's in the back yard waiting to go to the mechanic, hopefully since it's broke down now we can figure out the problem. I swear, old hunting rigs are always 1 step from the bone yard no matter how much maintenance you do! :chuckle:
Post by: jackelope on April 18, 2015, 09:41:47 PM
See you next week.
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Post by: RadSav on April 18, 2015, 11:00:08 PM
good job especially on those archery birds radsav!
Easier than it looks when you have a sexy bow that hates to miss and Bearpaw puts nice toms right in your lap!
Hardest part was getting that second arrow on the string before the second tom gets out of range. First one was on the move right to left, but at 7.5 yards there's not much lead needed! Second bird wasn't the smartest as he stopped to gobble once before making the mistake of running straight away. Shot was 27 yards center back. Worked out great because on that bow I shoot a 27 yard pin at both 7.5 yards and 27. So didn't even need to hold over/under on the second bird. :chuckle:
Third year in a row Bearpaw sets me up where I'm surrounded by birds within the first few hours opening day. Six of my last 11 birds have been while hunting with Bearpaw Outfitters. Always a good time with great people! Might not be the high challenge and bird dogging the other five birds have been, but I've enjoyed it quite a bit. Even if it does make for a short season with my two NE tags. I will be back again next year :tup:
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Post by: wsmnut on April 25, 2015, 05:09:36 PM
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Post by: bearpaw on April 28, 2015, 03:31:44 PM
Any Spring bear hunters?
Yes, but I hunted 1.5 days a week ago and didn't see any fresh sign so we are holding off.
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Post by: RadSav on May 04, 2015, 10:50:56 PM
Thanks for the great service and thanks for Ray's hard work also :tup: :tup:
Ray giving good service and hard work? I don't believe it. Guy just sits around with not a single word to say... :lol4:
Post by: wsmnut on May 05, 2015, 03:13:32 PM
Wsmnut
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Post by: bearpaw on May 06, 2015, 07:33:48 AM
Actually I had one hunter come up for 1.5 days but it turned cold so we decided to hold off on his hunt for a couple weeks. A week passed, we killed a few more birds, and my next bear hunter arrived. On the first day we hunted some of the same areas I had tried a week earlier, the grass has grown a little, some bear were definitely out now, we found fresh bear scat, lots of it in two little areas, one bear looked to be a little larger than the other by the scat size and the tracks, but we could not find either bear or any other bear in the flesh the whole day. :yike:
Well into the morning we heard a turkey gobble, in fact he gobbled just about every time I called so we went after him. We worked our way toward the bird, a couple hundred yards away I decided he must still be on the roost. We worked within about 80 yards and settled in as we didn't dare go further. I don't like talking to roosted birds, I would rather they fly down first. We waited a bit but this bird had more time than we did, we needed to to do this and get back to bear hunting, so I began calling. He gobbled and gobbled and gobbled, but he wanted us to show ourselves and finally flew down and took off the other direction. So back to bear hunting we go.
From a different area we heard the turkey again, he was gobbling good again so we went after him again, it was going well until we got close, then he shut up. OK that's enough of that, back to bear hunting again.
We checked some more areas but didn't find any fresh bear sign. Finally about mid day we spotted a strutting gobbler and Johnny put the smack down on him with one well placed shot. Great shooting!
Next we went back to check on the bear at the two little areas. Again no bear was spotted so we decided to go grab a late lunch and clean the bird. After lunch we headed back out to the two areas with all the bear scat, we still didn't see anything so we went and watched another area that had potential for the last hour of daylight. We saw nothing but a few deer! So day 1 ended with one bird down and lots of bear scat, some of the scat was pretty decent, the knife in the photo is 5 inches long, but no actual bear was spotted.
Post by: bearpaw on May 06, 2015, 12:59:02 PM
My wife was up at 3:15 am cooking breakfast, she woke me at 3:40, I woke Johnny and Jim up at 3:45, we had breakfast and were headed out hunting before 4:30. Jim had arrived the night before for his annual turkey hunt, Jim was going hunting with Daniel and Johnny went with me bear hunting.
The first place I headed for was the two areas with all the bear poo. I pulled into the first area and there it was, another pile of poo right in my tire tracks from the evening before. I told Johnny, this bear is messing with us, this is adding insult to injury, the bear pooed right in our tire tracks after we left! :yike:
Worst of all, the bear likely pooed in the middle of the night, what if the bear is only moving in after dark in the full moon? :bash:
We looked over both areas with poo closely, no bear!
I checked numerous other spots, we covered a bunch of ground, saw some fresh bear tracks, saw deer, saw a bull moose, saw a cow moose, but no "live in the flesh" bear. We were coming out of one area and found a turkey hunter walking back to his truck and give him a ride. He told us he had called in two cougars while turkey calling, he had a good look at the one cat and heard the other cat calling back and forth with the cat he saw, so he figured it was a female and a kitten. Definitely too many cougars in our part of the state, last year we saw 10 cougars while out hunting.
By now it was lunch time, we had a few snacks and headed back the the two poo areas. I planned to keep checking these areas until we found one of those two bear. We were just pulling up to the first area and I spotted another pile of fresh poo on the side of the road. :yike: :bash:
I told Johnny this bear is really messing with us it pooed on the road after we left! :chuckle:
We moved along slowly, in my mind I'm trying to form a plan on how/where to best watch this area without the bear knowing we are here. Every time we leave the bear leaves poo, we need to stay and watch so we can catch this bear in the act of pooing "while it thinks we are gone"!
Suddenly I spotted something, "BEAR" I whispered to Johhny, he got down on his shooting stick immediately, but the bear moved behind some limbs, we moved a little but still couldn't get a clear shot, we moved several times and still no clear shot. I had thought this would be a boar as it had been leaving good sized poo and had nearly a 5 inch track, but looking through the binos the nose looked narrow even though it had a decent sized head with some distance between the ears, I still wasn't sure if it was a boar or sow, but I could see it was definitely a good sized bear. Suddenly the bear started moving to the right away from us. I whispered we need to move, so we moved about 30 yards or so, suddenly the bear was in clear sight, Johnny quickly aimed using the shooting stick, "BOOM", the bear dropped like a sack of potatoes. OH YEAH, BEAR DOWN! :IBCOOL:
The bear was still alive but couldn't go anywhere, I said I thought it was a spine shot "which later turned out to be at the base of the neck at the front of the shoulders", so we moved in close and Johnny finished off the bear. We took photos then hid under the trees for a short hail/rain shower to pass, then we gutted and halved the bear and packed it out.
The bear ended up being a large old sow, maybe the largest we've ever taken. She had pooed right near where we killed her, she was probably the same bear we had been looking for. Her nipples were tiny and hard to find, looked like they had never been sucked, she probably never had cubs, a barren sow. Her ultra thick black hair is probably about 4 inches long and the hide measured 5'10", she will make a stunning rug. Congrats Johnny, it was our pleasure meeting you and getting to know you during the hunt! :hello:
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Post by: quadrafire on May 06, 2015, 01:58:55 PM
So what did you need to get up so early for? :chuckle:
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Post by: jrebel on May 06, 2015, 08:57:24 PM
1. Meeting Dale and Tara (hope I got the spelling rite) for the first time. Talk about good people....They make you feel like family from the time you walk in the door. Food is excellent and what and unbelievable trophy room. The other guides and clients were all great too. :tup:
2. First ever guided hunt. Wasn't sure how I was going to like it and had a ton of reservations. Well it all worked out and I ended up having a great time. Dale and his crew really made this an experience of a lifetime.
3. First ever Turkey....I THINK I AM HOOKED!!!!
4. First ever spring bear (second bear ever). Bear have always been my nemesis. I have been hunting for 30 years and can count on one hand how many bear I have seen in the wild (and still have a couple fingers left over). :chuckle: Matter of fact, I have seen more bear from hwy 2 while commuting than I have in wild. I can flat shut the bear woods down with my bear luck. Well....hopefully that is now changes. Not only did I get my first spring bear...it was a fantastic old sow.
All in all, I would say it was a trip I will never forget. Given the opportunity I will gladly hunt bear with Dale's crew again. Thanks for such a great trip. :tup:
jrebel
Post by: jackelope on May 06, 2015, 10:33:23 PM
You killed the "poo bear" :chuckle:
The poo bear from two poo area.
Congrats Johnny. Sounds like a great trip.
Post by: bearpaw on May 06, 2015, 10:47:18 PM
This morning Daniel and Jim were in the turkey woods before daylight, Daniel had roosted 3 birds the night before and had a master plan. He got Jim in position and it wasn't long before a bearded hen came by, she didn't look too healthy, didn't act well, hanging her head, etc, so Jim passed her. As hoped another bird (a nice tom) soon came within range "Whammo" Jim had bird #1. About 2 minutes later here came a jake and "BOOM", Jim had bird #2.
Upon cleaning and skinning we found that the jake was super skinny, so skinny that we figured he was unsafe to eat.
I called WDFW asking if Jim could get a tag replacement and to report the funny acting hen. Funny that there were two unhealthy birds so close to each other. I was told they would have someone get back to me and after a short bit I received a call back.
The person is one of the bios who is monitoring bird diseases, she asked me a few questions and concluded that most likely the jake had a hard winter and hadn't recovered yet. She concluded that the hen may have gotten wounded by a hunter at some time during season, which is possible.
Unfortunately Jim did not get another tag, so he will only be taking home one bird to eat. He did get a chance this afternoon to rid one of the ranches of a few squirrels and rockchucks!
Congrats to Jim again on good shooting and another successful hunt. He's been hunting with us for years and always does a great job of "taking home the turkey". :tup:
Post by: kirkl on May 08, 2015, 03:15:31 PM
Post by: bearpaw on May 09, 2015, 01:22:40 PM
Randy (father) and Spencer (son) started hunting yesterday. Spencer nailed the first bear seen with Daniel which is the first bear he had ever seen, the bear was looking over a rise facing straight on, all Spencer could see was the face and chest, he nailed it with one shot dead center in the top of the chest. The bear has long black hair, the hide is in excellent condition, he plans to have a rug made. Congrats Spencer, nice shooting! :tup:
We saw 3 other bear on day 1, Randy passed on one bear, the other two bear were bigger but never gave us a good shot opportunity. We saw numerous piles of bear poo and several bear tracks, one of those tracks was really nice sized, about 5 inches wide, that bear should be 6 feet or better, we spent a lot of time in that area but couldn't that big bear.
Wolves & Moose
We saw wolf tracks in the mud in three different places, the wolf tracks are 4.5 to 5.5 inches long, twice as long as the coyote track. We also saw three cow moose the first day, not one of the cow moose had a calf and I didn't see any calf moose tracks with adult moose tracks that we saw. The wolves are really working the area hard, I hope it's just a coincidence that none of the cows we saw had calves!
Post by: bearpaw on May 09, 2015, 02:18:34 PM
I was buried in things that needed done in the office so I had to stay in for the day. Randy and Spencer hunted with Daniel and went back to the same area we saw the two larger bear the day before. Mornings have been cold and again they saw no bear in the morning. At lunch we talked and decided that in the afternoon Daniel would check a couple areas we hadn't hunted yet this spring. There was lots of fresh sign including a fresh pile of poo that hadn't even started turning dark, they must have just missed that bear. Daniel said it was a good one too.
Next Daniel went back to where Randy and I had seen the two bear. This time they hiked into a little different spot we hadn't hunted yet. They were only 400-500 yards into the hunt and spotted a nice black bear at 140 yards. They waited for the bear to move a bit into a good shooting position and then Randy nailed the bear with his 270 WSM. BEAR DOWN! :IBCOOL:
The bear still had a little life so Randy placed a second shot to make sure the bear stayed down. Nice shooting Randy! :tup:
It was a pleasure having you guys back for another hunt. We are looking forward to seeing and hunting with Derrick next week. :hello:
Hunter & Kevin's Turkey Hunt - First Day
Kevin and Hunter (father & son) have been coming spring turkey hunting with us every year since hunter was 6 years old. They are more friends of the family than hunting guests and we look forward to seeing them every year. I'm not sure where all the years have gone but Hunter has turned into one heck of a hunter (pun intended) and he just graduated college yesterday! :brew:
Jeesh Kevin, we must be getting old! :chuckle:
They arrived yesterday afternoon, got settled in one of the cabins and went out for a short evening hunt. They were set up in a great spot and nearly nailed a nice gobbler at about 30 yards, but luck was on the side of the gobbler, he somehow eluded giving either Hunter or Kevin a decent shot opportunity. We'll call that gobbler the "Lucky Gobbler".
At this point they were considering calling it a day and heading back in for the night. About that time here comes another gobbler, we'll call this gobbler the "Unlucky Gobbler"! He strolled into shotgun range and Hunter took the honors with a solid hit to the noggen. BIG BIRD DOWN! :IBCOOL:
Congrats to Hunter! :hello:
Post by: jrebel on May 09, 2015, 03:06:37 PM
Post by: ribka on May 11, 2015, 06:46:13 AM
Heck of a boar
:tup:
1st Bear Hunt - Day 2 - The Insult to Injury Bear
My wife was up at 3:15 am cooking breakfast, she woke me at 3:40, I woke Johnny and Jim up at 3:45, we had breakfast and were headed out hunting before 4:30. Jim had arrived the night before for his annual turkey hunt, Jim was going hunting with Daniel and Johnny went with me bear hunting.
The first place I headed for was the two areas with all the bear poo. I pulled into the first area and there it was, another pile of poo right in my tire tracks from the evening before. I told Johnny, this bear is messing with us, this is adding insult to injury, the bear pooed right in our tire tracks after we left! :yike:
Worst of all, the bear likely pooed in the middle of the night, what if the bear is only moving in after dark in the full moon? :bash:
We looked over both areas with poo closely, no bear!
I checked numerous other spots, we covered a bunch of ground, saw some fresh bear tracks, saw deer, saw a bull moose, saw a cow moose, but no "live in the flesh" bear. We were coming out of one area and found a turkey hunter walking back to his truck and give him a ride. He told us he had called in two cougars while turkey calling, he had a good look at the one cat and heard the other cat calling back and forth with the cat he saw, so he figured it was a female and a kitten. Definitely too many cougars in our part of the state, last year we saw 10 cougars while out hunting.
By now it was lunch time, we had a few snacks and headed back the the two poo areas. I planned to keep checking these areas until we found one of those two bear. We were just pulling up to the first area and I spotted another pile of fresh poo on the side of the road. :yike: :bash:
I told Johnny this bear is really messing with us it pooed on the road after we left! :chuckle:
We moved along slowly, in my mind I'm trying to form a plan on how/where to best watch this area without the bear knowing we are here. Every time we leave the bear leaves poo, we need to stay and watch so we can catch this bear in the act of pooing "while it thinks we are gone"!
Suddenly I spotted something, "BEAR" I whispered to Johhny, he got down on his shooting stick immediately, but the bear moved behind some limbs, we moved a little but still couldn't get a clear shot, we moved several times and still no clear shot. I had thought this would be a boar as it had been leaving good sized poo and had nearly a 5 inch track, but looking through the binos the nose looked narrow even though it had a decent sized head with some distance between the ears, I still wasn't sure if it was a boar or sow, but I could see it was definitely a good sized bear. Suddenly the bear started moving to the right away from us. I whispered we need to move, so we moved about 30 yards or so, suddenly the bear was in clear sight, Johnny quickly aimed using the shooting stick, "BOOM", the bear dropped like a sack of potatoes. OH YEAH, BEAR DOWN! :IBCOOL:
The bear was still alive but couldn't go anywhere, I said I thought it was a spine shot "which later turned out to be at the base of the neck at the front of the shoulders", so we moved in close and Johnny finished off the bear. We took photos then hid under the trees for a short hail/rain shower to pass, then we gutted and halved the bear and packed it out.
The bear ended up being a large old sow, maybe the largest we've ever taken. She had pooed right near where we killed her, she was probably the same bear we had been looking for. Her nipples were tiny and hard to find, looked like they had never been sucked, she probably never had cubs, a barren sow. Her ultra thick black hair is probably about 4 inches long and the hide measured 5'10", she will make a stunning rug. Congrats Johnny, it was our pleasure meeting you and getting to know you during the hunt! :hello:
Post by: bearpaw on May 14, 2015, 01:46:27 PM
Just got this 5 acre food plot planted last week between hunts and the recent rain should really get things sprouting, 1.5 acres of clovers, 1.5 acres sainfoin, and 2 acres reserved for winter wheat in August. Should be some killer hunting (pun intended) come fall and next spring.
Post by: Gringo31 on May 14, 2015, 01:48:22 PM
Post by: bearpaw on May 14, 2015, 03:18:52 PM
You're farming now Dale? :chuckle:
I didn't grow up farming so that has been a learning experience. :chuckle:
This is my (hobby) tractor and disc, I don't have a drill (wished I had a small one), my atv seeder is broke and there are none for sale in town and there wasn't time to order one so I walked everything with a hand held lawn seeder and then drug the seed in, but it seems to be sprouting and growing OK! :chuckle:
Post by: Duffer on May 14, 2015, 06:51:50 PM
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on May 14, 2015, 07:15:07 PM
That is gonna be a HOT SPOT this fall :tup:You think ? :chuckle: :tup:
Post by: bearpaw on May 18, 2015, 10:34:37 PM
Eight days of bear hunting and 4 bear down! :IBCOOL:
Congrats to Derrick on a great shot and a nice boar! :hello:
Post by: KFhunter on May 18, 2015, 10:37:35 PM
You're farming now Dale? :chuckle:
I didn't grow up farming so that has been a learning experience. :chuckle:
This is my (hobby) tractor and disc, I don't have a drill (wished I had a small one), my atv seeder is broke and there are none for sale in town and there wasn't time to order one so I walked everything with a hand held lawn seeder and then drug the seed in, but it seems to be sprouting and growing OK! :chuckle:
All I use is a cone spreader Dale, seed and fertilize just about everything with it.
I seeded oats then alfalfa over top and got a huge crop of oat hay and this year I've got a really nice looking stand of alfalfa :tup:
all cone spreader planted. I use a drag made of light horse fence for alfalfa, and heavier spike tooth for seed like oats.
Post by: bearpaw on May 18, 2015, 11:08:28 PM
You're farming now Dale? :chuckle:
I didn't grow up farming so that has been a learning experience. :chuckle:
This is my (hobby) tractor and disc, I don't have a drill (wished I had a small one), my atv seeder is broke and there are none for sale in town and there wasn't time to order one so I walked everything with a hand held lawn seeder and then drug the seed in, but it seems to be sprouting and growing OK! :chuckle:
All I use is a cone spreader Dale, seed and fertilize just about everything with it.
I seeded oats then alfalfa over top and got a huge crop of oat hay and this year I've got a really nice looking stand of alfalfa :tup:
all cone spreader planted. I use a drag made of light horse fence for alfalfa, and heavier spike tooth for seed like oats.
I don't know what a cone spreader is?
We use an ATV with a section of spike harrow to drag in large seed or a piece of horse fence for fine seed. I been reading and think I might try planting some winter rye grain this fall to compare it to the winter wheat, 1 acre of each. Supposedly the rye releases chemicals in the soil that discourages weeds and the deer are supposed to like rye too, so I might have to give it a try next to the wheat as a fair comparison. I might mix both grains with some oats and clover that will provide extra nutrients for the grain to grow the following spring. This food plotting is actually quite interesting and a lot of fun.
Post by: KFhunter on May 18, 2015, 11:47:13 PM
http://www.cabelas.com/product/King-Kutter-S-Cone-Spreader/1332699.uts
winter wheat you can plant in the fall before first frost and till it under in the spring to build soil. Peas, vetch, alfalfa make their own nitrogen from the air (leghumes) good soil builders.
Post by: Jonathan_S on May 20, 2015, 08:16:43 AM
a cow moose with 2 calves
Sounds like a great day Dale. Show me where that cow moose is. I'd like to go and provide some on site security for those calves :chuckle:
Seriously though, I am seeing very few moose calves this year :yike:
Post by: bearpaw on May 20, 2015, 08:09:44 PM
a cow moose with 2 calves
Sounds like a great day Dale. Show me where that cow moose is. I'd like to go and provide some on site security for those calves :chuckle:
Seriously though, I am seeing very few moose calves this year :yike:
These calves were freshly born and could hardly stand, the predators haven't had a chance to eat them yet. We too have noticed a lack of calves from last year, lots of cows with no calves. I also saw a yearling calf with no mother, I wondered if predators got the cow?
I've been watching tracks pretty close, seen more wolf tracks than ever this year, lots of lion tracks and coyotes all over the place too. Bear numbers seem high as well, we've had no trouble filling spring bear tags. This morning we saw the first cougar of the year, it crossed the road on the way out hunting.
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Post by: bearpaw on May 21, 2015, 11:02:10 AM
The tom had a decent beard and spurs but unfortunately something had ripped out all the tom's tail feathers, about 6 half grown tail feathers is all this 2 year old bird had. Nonetheless Cantrell was happy to get her first bird down! :tup:
Post by: bearpaw on May 21, 2015, 11:47:25 PM
They went to the next spot and got into more birds and saw a nice 250ish boar bear! They got photos and video at the bear which they watched for about 20 minutes. Darn it, I'm all out of bear hunters!
Right at dark they put 4 birds to roost that gobbled, but we are nearly certain that it's a group of jakes we've seen. In the morning we are sending them after different birds in the same general area. They've only hunted one day and 2 of them already have birds so this hunt is going well for this late in the season. :)
Post by: syoungs on May 22, 2015, 01:26:55 AM
Thanks
Post by: bearpaw on May 22, 2015, 08:10:13 AM
Man I cant wait till the day I can come up and hunt with you! I imagine as soon as I draw my spring bear I will be your way, until then I intend on buying one of your bear maps for fall bear, if I purchase in july, will I get in july, or closer to the season? I can only afford the time to do 2-3 scouting trips before September.
Thanks
At times I'm very busy and slow to get maps done, especially during and right before hunting seasons. But I should be able to do a map in July for you. Rather than make extra trips, I would save your time and money for when season is open, my map will give you specific areas, you will only need a day or two to familiarize yourself with the areas. I would show up 1 or 2 days right before the Sept 1 season opener. Many of the bear will not be in the same place when season opens as they were 2 or 3 weeks earlier because they follow the foods sources as they ripen. Berries that the bear were eating in early August will be gone by Sept 1 and the bear will be eating something else.
Post by: bearpaw on May 23, 2015, 08:43:54 PM
Post by: bearpaw on May 25, 2015, 01:32:33 PM
The guys have a busy schedule but managed to make it back up again to hunt this weekend. They had a fantastic day on Saturday, they spotted 8 bear, but it was all sows and cubs. We talked about it Saturday night and agreed there had to be boars in the area to produce all those cubs, so they decided to hunt the same areas the next day. On Sunday they spotted a big color phase boar that they went after. They spent 5 hours trying to find that boar again but couldn't find him. While they were looking for the boar they stumbled upon a good sized sow that didn't have any cubs so Jeep took her. She was barren, it appeared that she had never had cubs. Congrats to Jeep on a successful hunt and a nice bear! We look forward to seeing you again for another hunt! :tup:
Post by: bearpaw on May 29, 2015, 02:12:02 PM
Post by: bearpaw on May 30, 2015, 04:50:45 PM
Post by: Jonathan_S on June 03, 2015, 08:24:19 AM
Post by: bearpaw on June 03, 2015, 09:11:18 AM
Mind if I ask where you got the Sainfoin?
Wyoming
http://sainfoinseed.com/
Post by: Jonathan_S on June 03, 2015, 02:00:54 PM
I look forward to seeing some bloody Sainfoin on your fall thread :tup:
Post by: bearpaw on June 04, 2015, 07:01:34 AM
Awesome. I've got about 6 acres that I want to plant a mix of grasses and Sainfoin. Sorry to detract your thread but how much did you sow/acre?
I look forward to seeing some bloody Sainfoin on your fall thread :tup:
I think the planting rate is listed, we went heavier because I don't have a seeder, I had to broadcast the seed and work it in with a drag so my germination rate is lower. I put about 100 pounds per acre, I think they recommend 50 pounds acre., but you better read what they say or ask them when you call.