Well folks we're just getting packed up here we're in British Columbia, just
north of the US border north of Montana. We're going in after grizzly and black
bears, we're going to pack in probably four or five miles into base camp and
hunt from there so we'll get all loaded up and then we'll be on the road. It
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Here we are folks on our first day of our hunt we're in southern British
Columbia hunting trophy grizzly bears. What we're doing the strategies were
just kind of setting up on each one of these snow slides, and watching the snow
slides because this time of year these bears congregate into these slides and
come down into alders at the lower ends of slides and they dig for grub's and
ground squirrels and whatnot. So we're just kind of riding up glass and riding
glass and each one of these slides we go. So hopefully a bear turns up or a few
bears in one of these slides eventually, so we're just going to wait this out
till evening and see what comes out.
We've got a big bear here the snow slide it's about a two or three hour ride from
camp, and I was taking one of my patented Eastman naps over here woke me up and
said there is a big bear up in that snow slide and sure enough I got my scope on
it and there's a big old bear he's kind of working his way down so we're gonna
kind of see what he what he does here but he's obviously a bore all by himself
big ole claws on him. Well the prettiest sights I've ever seen in the
out-of-doors right there look at that sucker.
Jeez, we're gonna wait this bear out if he comes out pops out down here in this
rock pile he's gonna be within striking distance. We're gonna cross our fingers
kind of see what happens.
Well it's been almost six hours since we saw that big bear up in the snow up
there we moved over to this slide thinking he was moving this way, and he
didn't show. So that's hunting we're gonna go back to camp and get some grub
and some sleep and we'll be back here first thing in the morning.
Well we have a big barrier two days ago we spotted him way up above timberline
there and we've had a couple days of bad weather. It's sitting in the slide for a
couple days watching it finally this afternoon I saw a bear go across those
rocks up there. I looked in it it was a little small to be him it was obviously a sow.
Then right behind her came that big bear from up there two days ago he's, he's got
this sow down in this avalanche slide here he's trying to breed her so
about the 29th of May here so they're right in their rut season so we're
hoping to he comes back out right down here in this bottom or I can get a shot.
Wait him out and see what happens, it's a big bear.
I almost had a shot him, he went across that rocks I'd never stopped he was too
busy chasing her. You know we hunted for that big bear for 3 or 4 days in
that same spot where we'd seen him three times and sometimes it's just not in the
cards we then moved down to a couple other slides it had some other bears in
them and kind of went to plan B and sometimes you just have to do that. It
looks like good bear he's not the real real big one but he looks like a real
nice mature boar so, we're gonna go up there and see what happens see if we can
get in a couple hundred yards of them a couple hours till darks we're gonna
have to haul tail here.
Rolling, oh my, holy smokes what a bear. What a gorgeous, gorgeous mountain
grizzly. Whoa, like it was scripted in a movie. He just came walking right down
off that knife ridge and into this, this rockslide here on that grassy hillside
and offered me about 180 yard shot. Devlins Dave was a little bit of pack
out he's actually down below us now we've got him maybe yards above us so he
rolled, shoot, probably 400 yards. Just a gorgeous bear and I couldn't ask for anything
better this has been green this is just gorgeous country. Well folks here we
are in the beautiful Canadian Rockies of British Columbia and our evening
couldn't' have ended any better. We got a big old bear here we made a stock straight
up this mountain out of the river bottom there. It got within 175 yards of him he
was feeding on this hillside and just kind of fed right into our lap within
175 yards made a perfect shot on him and he just rolled tumbled down this rock
sliding just a gorgeous grizzly or just culmination of a great hunt here in
British Columbia after mountain Grizzlies. Thanks for watching today and
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