First Grizzly tag ever!

[Lazy Ike]

Go get him Gate and take your Dad! He writes good stories.

 

[blargon]

Go get him Gate and take your Dad! He writes good stories.

X2, He can back you up with the Fireball, and carry you out if you fall of the horse again...

 

[sealhunter]

If the bears read these threads and find out you have a bad knee you are finished !!!!

 

[jaydog]

Congrats and have at 'em!!! Don't forget to take lots of pics for those of us at home.

 

[Noel]

Congrats Gate. Get all those girls who chase after you to drag you up on a travios.

Hope you heal up quick. Bad knees really suck.

 

[nighttime]

the only REAL .375 is thee H&H

 

[caycusion]

are you going to eat it?

 

[tuffteddyb]

congrats gatehouse
have fun and enjoy!
may a HUGE rug grace your wall

 

[Panman]

...Alaska never stopped hunting grizzlies...

Cuz the Grizzlies never stopped hunting the Alaskans.

Good luck and get us Pics eh!

 

[Gatehouse]

are you going to eat it?

If it tastes good.

Grizzly and black bear both have common traits- they are what they eat. Every fish eating black or grizzly bear I've tried has tasted foul, every non fish eating grizz or black bear have tasted..like pretty good bear meat!

If a small piece of this grizz tastes good, I will recover some meat, and if it tastes foul I won't...

(this is assuming I get a grizz. Shooting a black bear is a slam dunk for me, grizz aren't)

 

[Gatehouse]

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Congratulations on the draw Clarke.

A few bits of advice:

Don't come up too early. That draw is a good one but quite often the bears are still denned up at the end of May. You should PM Drache who lives up there and have him keep an eye out on the rate of snow melt in the valleys for you. Also, quite often the southern slopes may be bare but the roads will still be buried in 4 or more feet of snow. It is a ##### to be able to glass feeding bears a mile away but have no way of getting to them. (ask me how I know about that! )

Yeah, I am not going to go too early, I think I will need to boat across the lake and then go on foot, lots of territiory, but I dont' want t o snowshoe too much. Hard on the kneee!

Second, realize they will not be as big as the coastal bears you are used to. A boar you would pass on at the coast may well be the biggest bear you will see here. Also, Bring a black bear tag. The largest bears you see may well be blacks not grizz. 7+ foot blacks are fairly normal with skulls that will break 20".

It's my first grizz tag, so I wont' be too picky! Black bear tag is a standard item for my HL, too!

Finally, If you are so hard up for rifles that you are planning on using that Ruger thingamagig of yours I have a perfectly good '06 I can lend you. ;

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Bite your tongue...Going into the grizz infested coastal jungle, I was damn glad to have a .375 H&H. Now I have somethign better

PS, our Paramedic friend used to guide up in that country. Ask him about locations to start hunting at.

Done.

 

[Nester]

I have this feeling that you will do just fine

 

[Boomer]

Congrats on the tag, I'm already looking forward to a great story. As for everyone asking if you're going to eat it, who gives a ####? You hunt grizzly for the experience not for food; they sell meat in Safeway.

 

[Omega]

^^^Now ain't that the truth! X2

 

[stanway]

Congrats on the draw Clarke! I look forward to the story and the photos when you get back. Best of luck to you!


James

 

[jurban]

As for everyone asking if you're going to eat it, who gives a s**t? You hunt grizzly for the experience not for food; they sell meat in Safeway.

x3 on that If it taste good eat it if not feed it to the dogs

 

[Camp Cook]

Congrates GH good to hear you are finally getting a chance at a grizzly...

Boomer that is good humour...

Grizzly is the only big game animal in BC that the government does not require you to remove all edible portions.

I am very good friends with an MP that shot his first grizzly last year in the same general area as your draw, it was a very nice 7 1/2' blonde with awesomely thick long hair the shot was app 40 yards.

He went up in the middle 2 weeks of May and there was almost to much snow made for a very difficult hunt...

I'd recommend getting in contact with someone in the area that can give you snow level reports.

Both my son and I got drawn again this year in the same area that I shot my grizzly in last year, the one in my avatar pic.

Hey TB my camp is only going to be about 150 klms north west of you.

 

['Boo]

Clarke, To whet your appetite here is a Quesnel Highlands bear taken by a friend of mine a year and a half ago.

Rug mount by Debra Nelson at Woodland Taxidermy in Quesnel

 

[MK77]

my brother,my dad and i wen t to kwatna 2 years ago,wicked trip, shot his grizz at 30 yards floating down the river. measured up at 9foot 6. hope you have a wicked trip, and as we learned from floating down a river in the dark, you can never have too many flashlights

 

[Gatehouse]

my brother,my dad and i wen t to kwatna 2 years ago,wicked trip, shot his grizz at 30 yards floating down the river. measured up at 9foot 6. hope you have a wicked trip, and as we learned from floating down a river in the dark, you can never have too many flashlights

We floated down that river- And ran out of gas! That was about the time we noticed we had forgotten the paddles!