um
junior thank you very nice to meet you very nice to meet you we're just glad you're here buddy
i think on that far side is that wind it just kept failing
play it real safe
oh the eastern side yeah we got to get where it kind of peters out there yeah
we got to walk up that way i think we'll have a look i think i'll be able to see that bearer
from the bottom if we get away from it enough especially where he is because it's not real um
it's not all alders it's a lot of that it's kind of a mix you don't know until you try how long do
you think it's going to take you to get there too i think it's going to take us three hours
junior thinks it's going to take us an hour and a half you think it's going to take us six hours
if we're walking in my pace hour and a half yeah you do walk around
going
oh yeah those those buckles are they're the real deal man
they don't they don't like the buds look guys make it happen
so
just trying to determine what the wind is going to be doing up on this thing
hillary
we've seen him up there in the last couple days
walk around the basement just to kind of see what what the best approach we don't have visually yet
we're working on that right now
oh my god
well we got a little i got on this bear and i've got a good look at it
it's a little it's not quite the right bear for day two
really really pretty bear good hide um just not really what i'm looking for so
we're gonna pack up and and roll back to camp and try to find something else
we're just on here
got some we got a pretty cold start to this bear season here this spring
um it's been blowing quite a bit it's been keeping the bears down
and a little lethargic just because how cold it's been um
but here with a little sunshine and things warm up it'll get these bears
moving around again hopefully we can get close
to put an arrow in one of them until then we're just glassing 18 20 hours a day
enjoying the enjoying the wild places
it's bear hunting always have to stay on your guard because
you are just a part of the food chain around here
here we are archer brown bear hunt in alaska
been a slow couple days dealt with a lot of weather a lot of wind it's been cold
the first couple days found some bears pretty far away but nothing that we really wanted to go after
made a stock yesterday ended up being a sow it was about a seven or eight mile trip around trip
for timmy from what they tell me these bears when they're laying down this time of year
when they come out they're den they're real lazy and they're way in the same spot typically for
sometimes upward seven eight hours so it's a real good scenario for us looks like a really big bear
dream hunt for me i'm just excited to be here but we're gonna try and stick one right now
all right we got
bear number two we're gonna go stock on looks like a good bear
from here he's about two and a half miles away um
junior's getting all dialed in it's a bit of a far uh walk but i think uh we got the win and we
have some daylight so we're gonna give it give it a shot so kind of see the country right here
out there
late in the game this afternoon we found this
fun that's bare bedded on the south side it was a perfect archery scenario um i couldn't ask for
anything better as far as setting up an archery shot in stock stocking in on them typically
like timmy explained to me these bears will lay the same spot for a long time and
then we had him we probably within 100 or so yards of him and he decided to get up and move
we never really got a great look at him we knew he was big um perfect color just a giant giant bear
um got to where he was with the bow where he was bedded and couldn't find him and timmy
looked about 800 yards away from us and and uh he was moving away so we literally took off running
it's a good thing with timmy and i were able to move quick out here we're used to moving quick in
the hills so we were able to get quick and and uh came up over those rides we had the bear at 150.
i asked timmy i said man is he a shooter or not that's that's a big bear man and i i opted i
came here with a bow and i had every intention of shooting one with a bow but man i'm a young dude
i would be absolutely be back here again and hopefully do with the bow next time but i opted
for the rifle on this because of how big this bear is and he is big and we are a long ways
from home but every bit of this is worth it and we're gonna have a heavy pack coming out tonight
but that mountain house is gonna taste real good when we get back to the camp i know that so
get the mountain house ready for us boys we'll be there around 2am i'm sure
timmy you're the man thank you dude this is a dream hunt for me i've dreamed i've dreamt of
of killing a big big brown bear my entire life since i even knew you were able to to
hunt these things and i am absolutely absolutely humbled right now thank you man thank you so much
that thing is a freaking toad oh that's awesome
i'm gonna have to make a necklace out of one of them
thank you brother yeah such an awesome awesome experience oh man
all right we made it happen me and junior went on a absolute
walkabout we saw the spirit a little over three miles away decided we have enough daylight we
had enough wind in our favor and we just went for it and uh kept eyes on it as best
we could then we got up closer to it nowhere to be found and then we see it on the skyline
we did all we could to get to it we ran chased it down and uh it was uh
got a little western there for a little bit that's for sure but this bear is uh it's such
a great representative of the wild places that we uh love to hunt i mean it's a representative of
why we do things like this and just to get out where there's no cell phone service there's
only one way in that's on a tiny little bush plane and there's so much adventure it's not
only about taking an animal but it's about having an adventure along the way we are going to get
after this bear skin it get all the meat bring it back and have a big barbecue back at camp