Come on! He don't care. But I mean even any normal bear sees a
person, it should be gone. Is he on a kill or is that a rock he's standing on?
Well we're just gonna get along the trail here and just get by him and I'm
sure he's gonna come back, saw him burying it. Those aggressive defensive encounters
we see that bears are protecting three things: they're protecting a food source,
their cubs, or their personal space. Well bear went over the hill we're gonna keep
going up the drainage we were gonna camp right around the corner here we might
just go a whisker farther. Good thing is he's not gonna want to leave that no but
you still have to deal with them right. I get to come back by here by myself
with horses. Goody!
What it's all about for us making memories in the mountains. Man you must
ate a whole jar of cranberries and a whole beaver and get poop like.
Hunting in grizzly bear habitat how should a hunter change their methods
when in grizzly bear habitat compared to somewhere else? So grizzly bears throws a
whole another dynamic into hunting, archery season is by far the most
dangerous time of year. Ya he's just standing guard. Up here watching big 6x7 pushing off a 300 inch bull the 6 by 7
is probably 340, 350 doesn't have the biggest beams he only has 3 cows now, and
he's pretty aggressive keeping that 300 inch bull out of there and he's up right
back in a box canyon so we essentially have him cornered or was gonna see what
he does and see we goes to bed.
Big bulls at the end of the canyon, so we'll just keep slipping up the creek, we got a good wind coming down. This is just a time of year in the fall when bears they're about to go into
hibernation so they're really trying to load up on calories and you're out there
hunting elk and they're out there hunting elk.
We're gonna get up on this elevation to come across. You're hidden and you're sounding like an elk you smell like an elk.
So the bear naturally is hunting you and if you're alone, that's that's as
dangerous as you can set it up for. Gonna try to bugle, get him to come down, he's pretty aggressive this morning. See what we can do.
He's gonna push his cows to bed up around the corner but the wind's coming
down this way he's I don't even know if it's possible.
So as far as food items to consider to store away from your immediate camp what
what are those other than food? Bears they have a really good sense of smell
anything with a with an odor can be an attractant. Toothpaste, sunscreen, hand soap,
food, garbage we want to store that unavailable to bears. We have a bear
hang pole here provided by the Forest Service. I have my quarter inch nylon
rope about 20 feet of it. Signed a rock on here trying to get this
thing over here. Okay that worked out pretty good our bag this is actually a
dry bag from Eberlestock I put everything in here that a bear might be
interested in or that it could smell. That goes in here the dry bags nice
because it keeps everything dry the two half hitch here onto the dry bag pull
this thing up you want to get at least 10 feet up and 4 feet out good right
there. I go with my taut line hitch it doesn't
get much easier than that.
G-unit right there good hump on that thing.
He's literally laying like he's dead in the wallow right there.
he's alive. It's like 10 degrees out.
Just down by the trail here and we heard a bugle saw some bulls moving up here
yeah, he's probably a 330 he's a nice bull he gave him a couple bugles and he's like looking down
here but I think he's gonna wrap around and feed on that south face of this
ridge. He's bugling and searching I don't know how
hot he is as far as if you would run down off there to here. He looked at
that can probably bet it's gonna be an interesting evening Tim he is coming
down the mountain. Guess we'll try and go kill him. So knowing what you're gonna do with your meat before you
actually go harvest it. Is number one. Is huge.
I think he's down in this draw I'm gonna get up on this lip and bugle facing down
in here and then we're gonna get up on that ridge a little bit and hopefully we can
call in below us. We have a wind coming up.
As hunters we're really focused in on the game and we kind of have tunnel
vision but you need to be aware of bear tracks and scat and sign that there's
grizzly bears in the area.
We're gonna go back around the backside of this we've had a good wind coming
down the valley it's if we cut him off. There's another bull bugling around the corner. We'll just wait here for a bit. See what happens.
We played it perfect, We got a lot of work to do. I think we're just gonna gut him
tonight. We'll come back in the morning and quarter him. Let's go recover him, and then we'll get him taken care of.
When your 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. This is what it came in here for we're
full grizzly bears but we're full of bulls to - hey man can you hear me I got
a good one. Big bull right place right time he
frickin let out a bugle right over the hill right behind us so we sit down and
he comes up cresting the hill at ten yards screaming and I aced him.
Grizzly just walked through the saddle behind us
good thing it didn't come around on top of us Frank
Well last night we just gutted this bull left a couple shirts on his antlers
propped him up I put a white my white game bags up there about two hundred
yards from him doesn't look like he's been disturbed.
So say I do come back to the carcass there's a bear eating on my meat 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 and you've punched your tag
but in reality that doesn't happen that often and Northwest Wyoming. If you take
the steps that we're talking about you shouldn't have a problem.
Absolutely, propped him up like this let that air escape it was too late last
night to really get him quartered in grizz country so we peed around
here we put our base layers on him just to have that scent up here and sure
enough I mean there's not even any birds up here. All right let's get this back
strap off.
Somebody call a back country taxi? I was wondering I was on my Uber about 24
hours ago look what showed up. Yeah cash, check, or
credit card? Hung him up and everything didn't have any problems last night so
meat comes up the hill onto the horses and we're out of here. Just as slick as
you please one down, one more.
Leroy doesn't even know there's anything on him. Okay, pull it.