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Here’s Jake with his first bird ever, also our first bird of the general season, congrats to Jake! Also Pat got his first bird ever, great job Pat!
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Post by: bearpaw on May 01, 2022, 06:25:28 AM
Nice birds 👍 but I just keep thinking about that hound rig! Looks awesome
Yeah, He’s pretty happy with it.
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Post by: bearpaw on May 04, 2022, 07:30:24 AM
Because we were late getting baits started I was really worried if we would have bear to hunt on this first hunt. A few days before the hunt all we had was a couple yearlings and one was probably only 60 pounds soaking wet.
We have been picking up new bear each day, yesterday on the second day both hunters nailed bear in the afternoon about 5 minutes apart.
The first bear was shot by Luke from Colorado, he tipped the bear over but it took off downhill with no blood trail to follow. This was on southern exposure so there was no tracking snow either.
Brian took up Chewy the Jack Russell, he is about 5 pounds of fury with a great tracking nose. Chewy tracked the bear a couple miles through thick reprod zig zagging from the top of the mountain nearly to the main stream in the bottom with Brian following. The bear finally bayed up tight in one spot and another guide with Luke came in from a much closer road and finished off the bear.
Chewy was the hero of the day, without a good tracking dog this bear would not have been found. We have hounds too, but we have found that a single blood tracking dog works out best in these situations.
Luke with his bear:
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Phillip from Texas was hunting for two birds, he nailed his first bird the first day and got his second bird the second day, I love it when a plan comes together.
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Did I mention a lot of our area is still under quite a bit of snow! :chuckle:
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Post by: bearpaw on May 05, 2022, 03:38:48 PM
Tell them Tennessee fellas to getter done. Nice job sir.
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I think they had a good time, got some good looking birds.
Post by: Russ McDonald on May 05, 2022, 03:44:30 PM
GoodTell them Tennessee fellas to getter done. Nice job sir.
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I think they had a good time, got some good looking birds.
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Post by: bearpaw on May 08, 2022, 12:05:12 PM
GoodTell them Tennessee fellas to getter done. Nice job sir.
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I think they had a good time, got some good looking birds.
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It turned out we had two groups from Tennessee, the guys that you know you are here hunting now, it’s been the toughest hunt so far, real rainy, birds have been pretty quiet. First day Mark got a bird, yesterday Jeremy got a really nice 3 year old, but we only got one bird each day.
Photos of Mark and Jeremy!
Post by: Russ McDonald on May 08, 2022, 12:24:33 PM
Mark sent me the pic of his bird after he got it. Yeah notnthe bestbof weekends by the sounds of it. I will talk to him on a NWTF call tomorrow.GoodTell them Tennessee fellas to getter done. Nice job sir.
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I think they had a good time, got some good looking birds.
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It turned out we had two groups from Tennessee, the guys that you know you are here hunting now, it’s been the toughest hunt so far, real rainy, birds have been pretty quiet. First day Mark got a bird, yesterday Jeremy got a really nice 3 year old, but we only got one bird each day.
Photos of Mark and Jeremy!
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Post by: bearpaw on May 08, 2022, 01:27:39 PM
Mark sent me the pic of his bird after he got it. Yeah notnthe bestbof weekends by the sounds of it. I will talk to him on a NWTF call tomorrow.GoodTell them Tennessee fellas to getter done. Nice job sir.
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I think they had a good time, got some good looking birds.
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It turned out we had two groups from Tennessee, the guys that you know you are here hunting now, it’s been the toughest hunt so far, real rainy, birds have been pretty quiet. First day Mark got a bird, yesterday Jeremy got a really nice 3 year old, but we only got one bird each day.
Photos of Mark and Jeremy!
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I guess Zach and Jeremy were on another tom this morning but an eagle ruined their hunt. Joe got a couple birds so Tim is the only one who doesn't have at least one bird yet, we will try to fix that this afternoon, fingers crossed LOL. Mark told me he's going to stay in this afternoon so only Jeremy and Tim will be going hunting after dinner.
Post by: bearpaw on May 11, 2022, 06:15:11 AM
Archie had a once-in-many-lifetimes experience, never before have we found a bear like this on top of the mountains in the wilderness of Idaho.
:chuckle:
Post by: bearpaw on May 11, 2022, 06:56:28 AM
No bear were seen Monday morning on the first day of the hunt this week, Grant and Archie found the "Teddie" bear Monday mid-day and took the photo for laughs. Monday evening Archie watched a bear bait but must have fallen asleep for a while, yesterday when Grant checked the trail cam there was a bear on the bait at the time Archie was at the bait that he didn't see, LOL!
So Archie sat at that bait again and this time it all worked out, we are assuming that the same bear came in, looks like it when you compare photos, and it's so cold we don't have many bear out yet. The bear are pretty skinny this spring, this bear skinned out at 5'-9", but as you can see it's very skinny.
Congrats Archie, skinny bear make good rugs too, and currently there are not enough bear running around to be very selective!! :tup: :tup:
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on May 11, 2022, 07:14:48 AM
Meanwhile in the remote wilderness of Idaho:
Archie had a once-in-many-lifetimes experience, never before have we found a bear like this on top of the mountains in the wilderness of Idaho.
:chuckle:
Question is what do you charge for those bears?🤣
Post by: bearpaw on May 11, 2022, 07:21:35 AM
Post by: bearpaw on May 11, 2022, 07:33:45 AM
Meanwhile in the remote wilderness of Idaho:
Archie had a once-in-many-lifetimes experience, never before have we found a bear like this on top of the mountains in the wilderness of Idaho.
:chuckle:
Question is what do you charge for those bears?🤣
These "special" teddy hunts are rather costly but a bargain in today's world, please call for pricing! Where else can you get a free range teddy? :dunno:
A guy once told me, any item is worth what you can get for it!
Post by: Angry Perch on May 11, 2022, 09:31:24 AM
Meanwhile in the remote wilderness of Idaho:
Archie had a once-in-many-lifetimes experience, never before have we found a bear like this on top of the mountains in the wilderness of Idaho.
:chuckle:
He shot Ted!
Post by: huntnfmly on May 11, 2022, 09:53:32 AM
Meanwhile in the remote wilderness of Idaho:
Archie had a once-in-many-lifetimes experience, never before have we found a bear like this on top of the mountains in the wilderness of Idaho.
:chuckle:
Hey Dale that’s a beautiful color phase bear
Congrats to the hunter😂
Post by: HillHound on May 11, 2022, 10:48:04 AM
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Post by: bearpaw on May 11, 2022, 11:39:18 AM
Some great updates!! I'm hearing it has been a really tough spring so far for the bear baiters in Idaho. I bet things really start picking up next week!! Good luck!
I've heard some areas don't have all the winter downfall, but it's terrible in our area, I've had a 3 or 4 man crew cutting roads for 3 weeks, costing me a fortune, and we are barely started. Forest circus drives as far as we've cut, turn around and leave, I don't think they even carry chainsaws or else they don't know how to use them? :bash:
It wouldn't surprise me if bear harvest is half the norm this spring.
Post by: hunting4sanity on May 11, 2022, 01:09:18 PM
Post by: bearpaw on May 11, 2022, 01:18:17 PM
I always look forward to this thread! Those great looking birds are giving me turkey envy and have me thinking I've got to get back up there again. Also, that blond bear would be a great money saving bear, not often you get a pre-taxidermied bear.
LOL, yeah that's definitely a money saver... :chuckle:
Post by: idaho guy on May 11, 2022, 05:28:09 PM
Post by: duckmen1 on May 11, 2022, 05:40:32 PM
I actually thought "cool he got a blond bear!", it took me a minute to figure it out ha ha. I must not have had enough coffee today
Might have to go with you and hold the rifle. At least until ya take a minute longer to identify boo boo vs Ted. :chuckle:
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Post by: Twispriver on May 22, 2022, 10:25:20 AM
Stump or bear - wait ... what?
Post by: bearpaw on May 23, 2022, 09:43:44 AM
Just two more steps ........ pleeeeeeeease
Stump or bear - wait ... what?
"two more steps ........ pleeeeeeeease" that's perfect :chuckle:
Post by: Angry Perch on May 23, 2022, 02:38:24 PM
Post by: bearpaw on May 25, 2022, 09:28:35 AM
Really starting to put the bears down!
Yeah, bear activity really picked up about 10 days ago in our area. From what I hear they were getting bear quite a bit earlier further south. Our early hunters filled tags but were taking what they could get, we didn't have enough bear out and about to be very selective.
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Post by: bearpaw on June 06, 2022, 12:51:37 PM
This morning Brian caught a good one with the hounds, the big bear mostly walked and bayed, finally the dogs got him to climb and Max from Wyoming nailed his first bear, this 6’-4” color phase on the first morning of his hunt. Way to go Max!
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Post by: bearpaw on June 30, 2022, 06:27:13 AM
That had to hurt, was it in decent shape?
Yes, not the best hide but it will make a rug.
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