Hunts are experiences... A double shot of that, Hoyt & Ardent North Coast Grizzly

Superbrad said:
I have to admit that your comments in regards to Ontario put a smile on my face...... As I recall, you took a (friendly) poke at my "taj mahal" of a hunt camp..... :)

Hunt camps are a great Ontario tradition whether rough or refined, and being a member of a good one is a priveledge and not a right..... some posts and interactions with Hoyt lead me to believe he is a member of a fairly large moose camp...... Where we come from, everyone at camp has to pull their weight...... While Hoyt was likely a great asset due to his experience, I am sure you will find any Ontario hunters that head out your way very helpful...... While not all of us are experienced bear guides (the size of Hoyts knife is a tell tale sign), we all know how to pull our weight, in fact I consider it part of the hunt.....

The "American way" boggles my mind and I have seen it in many outfitted hunts..... Guys paying big premiums so thy can fly in, have the American meal plan, sit in a tree stand and then pop a bear that someone else tracks, guts and capes.....

I look forward to hearing about your adventure with freddyfour and to my adventure next year..... FYI, in my camp, I "specialize" in the cooking, firewood and fire building as well as quick gutting and skinning (we have an ADD guy that takes care of anything mount worthy"..... But in the end, we all dabble in everything to add to our overall hunt experience......
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I hear ya, except for the light gear typically required met plenty interested in the American package. Would be great but a very difficult thing to do here, you can spend days looking for an appropriate camp site. The golden spots with somewhere safe for the boat in the tides up to 20 feet, and a campsite that's above water during the weekly flash floods, is an unbelievably rare thing. Had a good one and a logging crew got in the way of that, but it should improve things for black bears and Sitka deer. Pretty well have to be a moose, grizzly, or mountain goat to survive in this particular part of BC.

Curious side note... Travelled through the coast fjords, glacial sheep and mountain caribou mountains, elk and moose foothills, and muley and bighorn sheep desert complete with cactus and rattlesnakes on the way home. Interesting place BC is... Wish I could show you guys more of it. And headed back to the boreal in a week!
 
Ardent said:
Packed it simply due to needing a cheap beater, these hunts are too hard on guns. It's a stop gap before the titanium .375 2 1/4" arrives, that will get treated like it's cheap. It's a good camp gun but far from my ideal grizzly stopper.
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Wear did you get your titanium action from ?
Thinking of getting a ultralight rifle and Ultralight Camp gear this winter in the old days I just packed a knife the clothes on her back ( old-school Indian style hunting ) and no tent or sleeping bag save a lot of weight but now as I get older I like the tent and sleeping bags but not the extra Lbs
It's the one thing I like about hunting with White guys you guys always have nice hunting and camping stuff Haahaa jk
 
Cole said:
I must ask......what is that knife strapped to Hoyts leg/belt ??
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The knife is a Kershaw Moose Hunter.

When I was 15 years old (37 years ago), I was walking through a mall in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and a cutlery store had a table of knives on sale... I picked up two Moose Hunters, a Deer Hunter and a boning Long Field blade, all for $15/each. That knife on my belt has skinned and quartered more than 300 big game animals and probably 40 or so beef and pigs, and holds an edge like no other blade that I have ever used.
 
carverk said:
Wear did you get your titanium action from ?
Thinking of getting a ultralight rifle and Ultralight Camp gear this winter in the old days I just packed a knife the clothes on her back ( old-school Indian style hunting ) and no tent or sleeping bag save a lot of weight but now as I get older I like the tent and sleeping bags but not the extra Lbs
It's the one thing I like about hunting with White guys you guys always have nice hunting and camping stuff Haahaa jk
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Stuart Satterlee, it's six years in the making. Keen to use it.
 
Photo credit Hoyt, as with many of the pics. Grizzly's main tool kit, this is the foot of the smaller bear, but with a Boone & Crockett All Time noggin. It had by far the best claws I've seen on a coastal grizz and was a scarred up warrior, one of its ears was barely attached.

Then the fatso had a head not much bigger than one of Hoyt's black bears, and squares almost a foot bigger than his nose to tail thanks to his girth. Interesting proportions.

 
hoytcanon said:
The knife is a Kershaw Moose Hunter.

When I was 15 years old (37 years ago), I was walking through a mall in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and a cutlery store had a table of knives on sale... I picked up two Moose Hunters, a Deer Hunter and a boning Long Field blade, all for $15/each. That knife on my belt has skinned and quartered more than 300 big game animals and probably 40 or so beef and pigs, and holds an edge like no other blade that I have ever used.
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It did two sandy Grizzlies without a pause or touch up. Like your weather luck I'm forced to believe it after seeing it.

KMG Canada said:
Congrats on the hunt guys, thanks for the pics, the scenery is incredible!
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Come try the west sometime!
 
I have some "sentimental" items in the form of calls, compass etc...... But have never had that quality of knife...... Freddyfour has a nice one as well..... Similar purchasing circumstances as well as i recall.....

Again, happy for both of you and thoroughly enjoyng the read.......
 
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