oh yeah okay day one archery grizzly hunt um
me and ricky here have a good start on the day we've seen lots of bear sign
around here we saw some tracks and some scat and stuff so just got up to our little knob and
excited
okay we found a bear up on the hillside here eating blueberries we're going to
take a closer look at him it's pretty far away but he's not crazy far away
we've got some time of the day and good weather so i might go have a look at him here in a little bit
brooke's getting ready getting his boat ready and we're gonna go uh
so
all right we are
going to get a closer look at this dude um looks like a good bear he's got some blonde in him
um looks like a really nice coastal grizzly so we're gonna get a closer look
rick's getting dialed in back there got about a mile and a half walk i'd say but not bad
um as long as we can avoid the marshy stuff so hopefully we can get close get an arrow in him
he's open right there
let's see if we can close the other 400 yards
oh we're trying to screw around the wind not so we can so he doesn't catch our wind get out in front
of the wind that's the goal so here we go all right we're gonna drop down he's right up here
we gotta cross the creek
so
um
oh
just listen for my voice
just wait for it to get up
be ready to draw it's 20 yards be ready to roll
it
he's
he's ready down with his back to us
uh
just as rick released he turned and he hit him up front bears run running up the mountain
he's still still running we're just going to look for the arrow look for blood go up
see if we can find him how much you can do he did everything right
just that's archery hunting it's really really difficult so i'll keep you posted guys i'm i'm
sorry if it's kind of choppy right now you know the situation is not picture perfect um
we gotta stay focused i'm guiding right now so i have to stay focused i can't film a ton
when we're tracking despair or seeing it trying to taste after i'm making sure rick is is safe and in
the right spot so especially when you're going through all there's some really thick stuff um
just not safe for me to be filming with a wounded bear around so i do apologize i
hope you understand it's going to be hopefully we can find this bear and uh it's a happy ending but
just know we're looking for it right now so i hope you all understand
i hope we find this bear it's hard not to get a little jump even you can't see in front of you
oh
we found the bear back up we're gonna shoot we're gonna shoot here in a little bit
we're just waiting for him to come out so
rick's decided if he can't get in bow range he's gonna use a rifle so
all right so after a long time looking at glass we picked up the wounded bear and uh rick made
the right decision and used my rifle and shot it and you know that's the ethical thing to do
when you have a wounded bear um you've got to make sure it counts and we don't
we don't like wounded bears we don't you know not only for the bear safe but for
anybody else that comes out in the area yeah exactly we don't like wooded bears so rick did
a good job we did all we could you know archery hunting as you do everything right and then
you still something will still happen you know it's archery hunting so this is the best case
scenario that could have happened on the window bear we're pretty happy so we're gonna go up to
the bear get it done first day out i haven't gotten acclimated my legs are like noodles
but we had a perfect stock on this guy he got to 18 yards and when he stood up from bedded down
he turned as i shot he's had climbing on video too
so we've tracked it and chased it for a good distance i don't know how far you think he went
yeah a couple miles a couple miles yeah at least probably three to four miles
and uh because he was wounded we didn't want to leave him out here we don't want a wounded
grizzly for anybody's sake whether his sake or any other hunters come out here they wouldn't
know there's a wounded grizzly and may get attacked so in the spirit of things and the
right thing to do i had to use a rifle to put it down to put him out of this misery and out of
it's hard when you just get off the plane and you come right out to camp and start hiking
up in these hills it is hard walking on sponges rick's legs are
pretty jelly right now we've done a lot of uphill miles so he's done an awesome job
he's just been right there with me the whole time and it's good this is alaska hunting
guided unguided fully outfitted any way you shake it you got to earn it this is not
for the week so rick's done an awesome job he's a great hunter really fun to hunt with so i'm really
glad it worked out for him i think i think things work out more often than not when you work hard
to have them work out in other words if you give up too early things usually don't work
out but we stayed after stayed tracking the bear stayed on and over and over again
and didn't give up and things worked out so just a reminder don't give up there's always options
and i never had to pull the trigger which i'm happy for it was all rick
just goes on there same thing same idea
i looked up
so as it's getting dark you know so much beautiful all right i'm gonna finish
wrapping this up and i gotta get down the mountain the sun's going down
okay
it's pack out time it's dark
well i'm still having fun i think i've been walking for about four hours so all right well we
made it back last night it was late really really dark um not a whole lot of battery going on with
the phones and we made it back made it back to our camp with the bear and meat and everything that
we needed and yeah now we're packing up we've got an absolutely beautiful day for flying so
um we gotta take advantage of it so we're gonna get picked up in our bush plain and uh head
back to civilization had an awesome hunt me and rick were talking about it felt like a four day
hunt even though it happened in one day we did a lot of hiking probably did about eight nine miles
rick did and i did another couple and uh it was it was just an absolute adventure so really fun
what alaska hunting is all about never giving up and and seeing it all the way through to the
end it was really really fun so waiting on the bush plane now and gonna get up and head on out
hey brian good morning you guys make quick work out here yeah it felt like days
it felt like four days did it yeah we hiked a bunch oh yeah he just spin the airplane around
my boots yeah i know it it does yeah it looks it's so clear it looks shallow
beautiful day coming back
all right we're gonna start loading first i'm a hunter myself so
stuff's pretty important equipment they don't weigh nothing and they and you can
fit two guys if you have two you should take them right out but you don't need
to they fold right up out of the way so nice you can actually uh slide my seat back
no i got it i slid yours back yeah
i'm gonna slide this back and then i'll hop in i can get this door brian
come on
um
come on
you