The Outfitting Year in Pictures on the Wild Coast

Superbrad said:
Ugh...... Alaskan Ginseng.....

They say you can put a sprig over a doorway to ward off evil, personally I think it's so evil that it scares evil away....

Oddly enough, the only place I know of that has this outside the Pacific Northwest is Ontario in the Lake Superior region....
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Never heard any of that. Around here it grows to about 6 or 7 feet in steep, dark riparian areas, usually very convenient to grab when you slip.
 
MiG25 said:
Never heard any of that. Around here it grows to about 6 or 7 feet in steep, dark riparian areas, usually very convenient to grab when you slip.
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100% correct. While river fishing when working your way along a bank and you start to slip and reach to grab something.........
 
Better than coffee, a handful of unexpected Devil's Club is.

Posted this in another thread and it belongs here too, good Grizzly boar's skull, you can comfortably rest a large Black bear's skull in his jaws without over extending. It's resting on top of a full size Rubbermaid, and black and white to reduce the gore factor, not necesssary here.

 
I don't mean to re direct the topic here, but just wanted to ask about where you found the scalpel on page 1? I have been searching for one of those for a long while now.
Thanks
 
Ardent said:
Better than coffee, a handful of unexpected Devil's Club is.

Posted this in another thread and it belongs here too, good Grizzly boar's skull, you can comfortably rest a large Black bear's skull in his jaws without over extending. It's resting on top of a full size Rubbermaid, and black and white to reduce the gore factor, not necesssary here.

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i knew that you had some little baby bears over there Angus ... you can have two Yukon black bears for one of yours ....
 
Ardent it was not an hunting offer .... just to describe the size i do not think ours worth that king of bear compared to yours ... special guiding for black bear i do not think someone did that in the past ... grayling mmmmmm....
 
Mik123 said:
Do you have a rough estimate of weight of the bears in the pics you posted? Visually they're ginormous.
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Always hesitate to even guess, as it's just a made up number, but that's all everyone else is doing. I did scale a typical mature shooter black bear, 293lbs, and that's a boar many would estimate at 400lb.

Grizzlies are too big and in too remote of places to scale, but I grew up commercial farming and went through a lot of auctions, I feel I can get pretty close. The honest answer is smaller than most would think, bears get heavily exaggerated. If I had a $1000 bet riding on being within 50lbs of the lightest and heaviest Grizzlies I've guided, I'd say 400lbs at the lightest and 950 on the heaviest. When they're pushing that 1,000 mark they're around a third lard. These weights may sound mild but pound for pound they're the strongest thing in the bush, and make big black bears look pretty soft. I've only ever seen one or two bullet exits on them too, they're built like barrels, and that's right up to .375 Ruger, and I tell clients to keep shooting until it drops.

In summary, most would at first think they're huge when sighted live, and then be initially surprised and think even a 1,000lb grizz is smaller than expected when walking up on it dead. You have to remember they're not on long legs like a moose, and are deceivingly heavy for something much shorter at the shoulder than you expect. Soon as you try and roll it to skin it, and Hoytcanon can attest, the weight becomes immediately apparent. It can still catch you off guard each time, and they're hard to roll with two or three strong guys. I think I'd probably be a little surprised how heavy they are if I had a scale out there, as I like to be conservative on them and avoid the industry norm of everything growing one third after they hit the Internet.
 
the spank said:
You guided George W Bush? Whose booked in next, Bill Clinton?! Be sure and have cigars on hand!! ;)
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You wouldn't believe how many people even think he's W in person... he's back this year again, and I'll roll with it at the dock, W has had a resurgence of popularity in comparison to Trump. :d

buckbrushoutdoors said:
which bullet did he use in the 375 ruger?
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300gr DGX, it's the Internet convention to bash them but on bears they're great. You don't want an overly stiff bullet for bears in my opinion. Partition is about as good as it gets, DGX, Accubond, no complaints.
 
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