good Royals he looked at that Tim he is coming down the mountain so I guess.. try to kill him no one what
you're gonna do with your meat before you actually go harvest it is everyone
is huge
typically a lot of guys still harvest in the evening so you can be bringing it in at
night or just parts of it so you need to be familiar with your area when you're
field dressing it it's a good idea to have somebody on Lookout once you start
opening the critter up and you get that blood smell in the air that's gonna
attract bears I've investigated with the Game and Fish and Fish and Wildlife
Service a lot of maulings and number-one thing is nobody was watching when that
bear came in from behind him it's a dangerous game out there
somethings hunting you now drag that carcass away from the gut pile or the
point of death that's always a good idea I like to try to get those carcasses out
in the open so I have a lot of visibility you daren't you don't want to
take that thing back to your camp so the Forest Service has done quite the
job over the last 20 years of building food poles and meat poles get it packed
out that night get it hung up which is at least a hundred yards from a camping
area and so it's got to be 10 feet off of the ground and four free from any
vertical next to it that's the best way we know that humans can take care of
food or game meat because that's the attractants that drawn in and so if you
don't have any reason for him to come in they don't come in and the best
thing you can do is get that out of there as quickly as possible is to get
that carcass back to the trailhead and back home we killed my bull on a North
Face killed it right at last light and so I just wanted to get him gutted away
from the gut pile as best I could and then come back the next day to quarter
him in pack him out instead of being out there all night quartering him in the
dark we both took off our base layers and wrapped him around the horns sure
by putting that clothing on it when you come back the next day you can see if
that carcass has been disturbed and if there's maybe a bear on it glass that
carcass makes sure there wasn't a bear on it and he probably came
from the upwind side so a bear could smell you if there was one around as
hunters we just need to understand that just because we don't see a bear doesn't
mean that there's not one in the vicinity so making noise and going in
slow and taking your time that's that's the best thing we can do if we have to
leave a carcass overnight so say I do come back to the carcass there's a bear
eating on my meat do I shoot shots in the air do I leave what do you do so in
Wyoming and if there's a bear on your carcass you need to leave that carcass
and and not get into a dangerous encounter with that bear part of the
risk of hunting in bear country and at the end of the day you've lost your
carcass and you've punched your tag and I know that's kind of hard for some guys
to hear but in reality that doesn't happen that often in Northwest Wyoming
if you take the steps that we're talking about you shouldn't have a problem
absolutely if we were just to leave this bull laying on a side overnight gutted
he'd be sour this morning you know even though it is it's snowing right now it's
upper 30s that's what we prop them up like this let that air escape
it's too late last night to really get him quartered in great country so can we
peed around here we put our base layers on him
so we just have our stinky base layers just to have that scent up here and sure
enough I mean there's not even any birds up here
well guys we're gonna get this bull quartered pack down to the trail about
850 feet horses coming in to pick us up it's been incredible six days out here
in grizzly country some great hunting back here just going to be willing to
put forth the effort and brave the grizzly bears