Here in Wyoming the season opens next tuesday.
Anybody else looking forward to the season?

Seeing as I'm a few thousand miles away across the oceaon - not as such.

Tell you what I am looking forward too though ............. one of your stellar hunting reports - makes it feel like we're there.

Good luck! (still got the amazing 'tache?)

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Anybody else looking forward to the season?

Yes. I have a trip lined up for next month in Idaho.

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Anybody else looking forward to the season?

Yes. I have a trip lined up for next month in Idaho.

Who are you hunting with in Idaho and when. I'm hunting with The Flying B Ranch for Bear starting May 24th.

1894mk2
where a couple 1000 miles away are you?

Heading to Alaska next month for brown bear. SO FRIGGIN' EXCITED! Hunting with Akshooter.

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1894mk2
where a couple 1000 miles away are you?

A small country the size of your county - UK

To me Wyoming is BIG country

1894
well then stay tuned, I've got a dear friend showing up tomorrow night to spend a week.
He's never been to the Rocky Mt.s, never chased a bear,never seen a griz.
Will try and see this next week through his eyes,
and share it here.

SW Oregon the last week of May. 3rd time trying for a black bear, hope it's a charm.

Headed to Cordova for black bear the last week of May. Can't wait!!

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Originally posted by Todd Williams:

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Originally posted by Grenadier:

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Anybody else looking forward to the season?

Yes. I have a trip lined up for next month in Idaho.

Who are you hunting with in Idaho and when. I'm hunting with The Flying B Ranch for Bear starting May 24th.

I'll be in the mountains out of Salmon.

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A small country the size of your county - UK

To me Wyoming is BIG country

All you got to do is get on a plane and fly your butt over and we will see what we can go kill or at least see!

577nitroexpress
what are you gonna take to shoot you're bear?

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Originally posted by Grenadier:

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Originally posted by Todd Williams:

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Originally posted by Grenadier:

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Anybody else looking forward to the season?

Yes. I have a trip lined up for next month in Idaho.

Who are you hunting with in Idaho and when. I'm hunting with The Flying B Ranch for Bear starting May 24th.

I'll be in the mountains out of Salmon. The accommodations will be austere but the company will be friendly and knowledgeable.

OK. Well, I was thinking we might be destined to be in the same camp next month. Anyway, good luck to you. I'm really looking forward to it. I've not hunted Idaho before. I'm sure it's going to be a beautiful place!

Cheers,

Todd

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OK. Well, I was thinking we might be destined to be in the same camp next month. Anyway, good luck to you. I'm really looking forward to it. I've not hunted Idaho before. I'm sure it's going to be a beautiful place!

Be prepared for wolves.

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Originally posted by Todd Williams:
OK. Well, I was thinking we might be destined to be in the same camp next month. Anyway, good luck to you. I'm really looking forward to it. I've not hunted Idaho before. I'm sure it's going to be a beautiful place!

Be prepared for wolves.

The little doggies won't bother you, they'll sing you to sleep ... Grizzlies on the other hand will be out and about, hungry and cranky!

yep, watch out for the griz.
been after it for almost a week now and
have sorted thru 8 grizzlies to find
3 black bears.
Still havn't fired a shot, and still looking for the right black bear.
but IMO thats what its all about.

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577nitroexpress
what are you gonna take to shoot you're bear?

I'll be shooting a Win Model 70 "Super Express" in .375 H&H with 300 grain Barnes TSX bullets. It's a tack driver.

Not since the bunny/tree huggers got the spring bear season done away with do we have a spring season. Our season in Colorado officially opens on the 2nd of Sept each year. Good Luck

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...-chased-janitor.html

I thought at first this bear wanted education but after he ate the math books perhaps he failed math.

This is the most northern county in NJ [Sussex] and they have lots of black bears .The tree huggers in NJ don't see the need for a hunting season .

Heading for NW Montana on Wednesday. I hope to shoot a big chocolate....if I can shoo the damn grizzly bears out of the way!

Phil

Heading out tomorrow morning for Idaho. I had my dates wrong on the earlier post.

Taking my new 9.3X74R double with 255gr CEB Non-Cons. This is the first outing for both the rifle and CEB's for me. Here they are all loaded and ready! Ain't they purdy!



I don't know. To me, there is just something attractive about rows of nice, shiny ammo that you just loaded yourself!

And here is the weapon of choice for this adventure:



OK, yep, I'm overly excited and giddy. A result of cramming too much work into too short a time for the last 2 weeks and operating on no sleep. (Sound of small violin playing in the background). Oh crap, just realized I'm leaving on Mothers Day! Better sign off now and do something for the boss today to make up for being so inconsiderate!

Good luck to all you guys on taking a bear!

The day school lets out my 13 yr old daughter and I are headed to Salmon-Challis NF for bear. This is her first big game hunt, and she would leave tonight if she could. I bought the hunt here on AR and couldn't be happier. She is using her Great Grandfather's rifle and is about to shoot the riflings out before we even pack!

Packing in on horses and mules, staying in a wall tent. Catching cutthrout for supper, and the book she picked for me to read to her is my Frist Edition "Horn of the Hunter" by Ruark. She shares a birthday with the man who's rifle she will be hunting with. I hope to get to tell more her about what kind of sportsman he was.

I hear from friends and co-workers about how difficult raising teenage girls are, and I agree she is a differant species than her brothers. (they were easy) My thoughts are, if more dads took their daughters to the outdoors and allow them to gain the self confidence that this lifestyle fosters, we would have less teens in trouble today.

Thanks to L. David Kieth, owner of Gray Ghosts Safaris hopefully this will be the first of many adventures to come

I recently returned from my trip to the Salmon/Leadore area. No bears sighted. This was a make-up trip offered by the outfitter because we saw no bears during my fall hunt in the same area. Several times over four different baits without one sighting. All bait was consumed after dark. To try something else, the dogs were sent out and tracked and ran a bear but we never got close enough to see the bear. The dogs wore tracking collars. The bear ran more than seven miles and disappeared over a snow topped mountain. We had to locate lost dogs. Two got chewed up and had to go to the vet.

I have heard tales of great success and I was told there were numerous bears in that area, the Salmon-Challis NF. Maybe, and perhaps a single bear will hit several baits. I was the first hunter they took out this year. It could be that I was there too early. Mine was supposed to be a June trip but I was asked to go in May instead. Someone I met there, not the outfitters, told me the outfit was so booked with hunters for June they needed me to come earlier. Regardless, it just didn't work out for me.

I sincerely wish you folks the best of luck and hope you get some nice bears.

Ouch! That's a rough hunt.
I havn't seen a black bear
since the 1st week of May.
But I saw my 22nd griz last night.
Somebody has to have better luck than us

It will be interesting to hear how the other guys do next month in the Salmon-Challis NF.

24 griz as of 6/1

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24 griz as of 6/1

I'd say it's time for a grizzly bear hunt. They said on the radio the other day that there already havin problems with bears this early in the year. I've already seen three or four bear cages headed to and from the hills in the last month.


Steve