Wanna hunt in Alberta ?
- Thread starter Grizzly Adams
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Better make sure your heart can take it.
Took this last Sat. evening. Betting the guy in the red coat , sitting near the fenced off enclosure, never even knew.
Grizz
I suppose you are right. Looking at the photograph, I don't know.
- Location
- AB foothills
Lets see....
I have been bluff charged twice at a very close range from aggressive Grizzlies. Almost stepped on a grizzly cub one spring, never did see mom and didn't want to. Had an aggressive sow with three cubs try to break out the passenger window of our truck and then proceed to try and tear off the tailgate or climb in the box as we tried to drive away down a very nasty trail(friend still has the truck with scratch marks to prove it. Have been within 50 yards of many grizzly bears over the years, way too many to count(memory as I get older ya know!).
There are a few members here that can vouch for my great luck with grizzly bears if you want to call it luck. Guess I have never been attacked so I must be lucky, LOL!
From what I can see in the picture the hunter is in no danger at all but I don't know the situation....
I have been bluff charged twice at a very close range from aggressive Grizzlies. Almost stepped on a grizzly cub one spring, never did see mom and didn't want to. Had an aggressive sow with three cubs try to break out the passenger window of our truck and then proceed to try and tear off the tailgate or climb in the box as we tried to drive away down a very nasty trail(friend still has the truck with scratch marks to prove it. Have been within 50 yards of many grizzly bears over the years, way too many to count(memory as I get older ya know!).
There are a few members here that can vouch for my great luck with grizzly bears if you want to call it luck. Guess I have never been attacked so I must be lucky, LOL!
From what I can see in the picture the hunter is in no danger at all but I don't know the situation....
- Location
- AB foothills
Better make sure your heart can take it.
Took this last Sat. evening. Betting the guy in the red coat , sitting near the fenced off enclosure, never even knew.
Grizz
Maybe if you are going to post something like this you should explain it better for the readers(or take a better picture
) . The picture doesn't tell much.The only reason I had any idea what you were talking about was because of your post on AO.
Maybe if you are going to post something like this you should explain it better for the readers(or take a better picture
The only reason I had any idea what you were talking about was because of your post on AO.
Actually, this was a hail Mary picture, surprised that it turned out as well as it did. There's a hunter in a red coat, which was the reason I spotted him, sitting near the top of the picture. There is a Grizzly sow with two cubs loping up the hill in the middle of the pic, going all out with her two cubs doing their best to keep up. Something was driving her, I would guess. Small change of course would have put her right on the guy. Felt like I was watching a train wreck about to happen and nothing to be done about it. The wired enclosure is to allow researchers to determine just how much of the forage is being grazed off. Seems obvious if you were there I guess, but vague if you were not. Sorry.
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Actually, this was a hail Mary picture, surprised that it turned out as well as it did. There's a hunter in a red coat, which was the reason I spotted him, sitting near the top of the picture. There is a Grizzly sow with two cubs loping up the hill in the middle of the pic, going all out with her two cubs doing their best to keep up. Something was driving her, I would guess. Small change of course would have put her right on the guy. Felt like I was watching a train wreck about to happen and nothing to be done about it. The wired enclosure is to allow researchers to determine just how much of the forage is being grazed off. Seems obvious if you were there I guess, but vague if you were not. Sorry.
No worries, just required a little IMINT analysis.
Yup, that's why tried to get a picture.
Sitting on your bum would not be a good way to meet this gal.Grizz
Yup, that's why tried to get a picture.
Grizz
Truthfully, that would likely be the best way to meet her. I think any of us that spend a significant amount of time in Alberta's backcountry have had dozens of grizzly encounters and I know I've grown pretty nonchalant about them. Recent events, however, do make one realize that they can be dangerous but it seems to bring out the bearanoia in many and truthfully, most of us will keep going on having close encounters that never go wrong.
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Grizzlies are a fact of bush life in the Rockies and North, so pretty much all of North Western Canada, I've literally had them sit and watch me work from fifty yards. I very much appreciate having a true apex predator around, it makes everything about the experience of being in the wilds, wild. I've been bluff charged once and have a pic (below) from right before it happened, it was over so fast there was no time to soil your shorts. I've been fortunate to have been drawn twice and hunt them as well, one day the hunt will close even in BC and it's an experience few get to enjoy. I hope common sense prevails there are extreme numbers of Grizzlies in the North West of the province. They are the real deal as a predator and every bit as impressive as anything Africa has, following a boar into scrub is an experience that renders one feeling very alive. These are cell phone pictures and I hope most can appreciate how much further away that makes things look than reality.
This family showed up while hunting Elk,
This one was not happy to see me, fortunately, the ears are still forward,
Watching me work,
This family showed up while hunting Elk,
This one was not happy to see me, fortunately, the ears are still forward,
Watching me work,
This!!!!!! Just seeing grizz is still a thrill after all these years and as you say, it let's you know wild places are still wild. A wolf howl has the same impact on me.
When Vanessa shot her bear a couple years ago at 9 yards, it was one of the most exciting hunts I'd ever been part of.
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Indeed, without the apex predators, a wild just becomes land. I'll continue to hunt Grizzly when drawn, and continue to hunt Wolves, and also appreciate both and want to see both populations do well. Grizzly typically is close, and thick, at least in BC, even then nine yards will induce a good southern pucker! They are tough, and if you have to follow after ten minutes to be sure it's down eyeing blood specs on brush in brush thick enough you can't see five yards, well there are not a not of experiences like that on this continent. It reminds you that you are hunting a different class of animal than your typical Canadian game where you walk in simply excited to see what you've got.
No real details yet, maybe find out more as today is town day. Grouse hunter tripped over a grizzly in Quick, BC and survived but got mauled. Neighbours out hunting last week came across moose carcass partially field dressed and now showing all the signs of being a grizzly kill. One hind quarter missing and skinned etc so someone has a real story to tell. Looks like they were pushed off after starting to field dress. Bush is dry, no berries and lots of bear everywhere (both kinds). Caution to all hunters in this part of BC, be very bear aware this season.
5point9straight6
Regular
- Location
- Deep River
We have had obvious sign of a bear in camp on several occasions this summer. Trailers remained set up for the season, but we never leave food or garbage around, so there was no problem. We finally got a glimpse of the bear at the end of August, a young Grizz, most likely one of the cubs of a sow, which is known locally to give rise to very well-behaved offspring. She has been spotted in the area for the past 7 years, and always with two cubs.
