I´m thinking about maybe (boy am I being specific) doing a black bear hunt to Canada and I´m wondering about prices, where to go and what to expect.
Spot and stalk (mornings)combined with baiting (evenings) is what I´d like to do but most outfitters seem to offer only one of the two. A combination of other species would be nice (if a bear is taken).
Talk to Peter Kalden of Davis Point Lodge. http://www.mts.net/~akalden/Start.htm St. Martin, Manitoba, Canada R0C 2T0 Telephone: (204) 659-2653 Fax: (204) 659-4599
He can do what you are asking... He runs an excellent operation. I have hunted with him. He has handled a large number of European hunters as well.
Contact Brad Lister of http://www.coastalinletadventures.com I hunted twice with him and collected good and great coastal blackies each time. Tell Brad, Jeff from Texas says hi!
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Thanks! Didn´t see any prices on Peter Kaldens sight though. What would be a "good" price for a ten day hunt and two bears? The idea of travelling to Canada for a five day hunt doesn´t really sound nice -to many hours in transit.
I hunted with Niut Trails in B.C. last spring and got my blackie! Book your hunt with Eric Hatch but ask for Randy for a guide! Eric or Randy would be the two best guides. Wonderful scenery and accomodations! Tell Randy that Scott Mahan says hi!
Try Stone Mountain Safaris or Terminus Mountain Outfitters. Tetsa River Outfitters has good bears too. All have grizzlies as well. All in Northern BC. Do a fall hunt and get moose , elk and wolves in the mix!!
Hi I'm an outfitter in South Western Manitoba. We hunt over baits but in the fall can spot and stock. My price is 2150.00 US plus 7% tax and lisence 210 Cdn. We ussually get 1 or 2 Bear over 500 lbs every year. Our color phase runs about 50%. I have a max number of 14 hunts per year. If interested get in touch with me and I can give you more info. Thanks, David Doan, Pioneer Outfitters.
Spot and stalk hunts for black bear used to be largely a phenomenon of British Columbia on river cruises where you were put ashore after a bear is spotted. They are quite expensive and if memory serves me were usually for grizzly, not blacks. Hunting on stand is not always just in the evening. I often went on stand in early afternoon (after eating a huge dinner so that I was stuffed like an anaconda. In fact, one bear I shot was after I fell asleep and woke up to see him at the bait!) It can be a long 7 or so hours on stand (always made more interesting as dark comes on and in Eastern Ontario where I did most of my hunting for bear, you had aiming light until nearly 8:30 or so in the Fall) You will get the biggest black bears in western Canada (I saw a Manitoba outfitter who responded. Talk to him. Those bears out there are truly large and with some beautiful color variations) Where ever you go (and I hunted blacks in New Brunswick and in Ontario, you will be treated well by the Canadians. (It's been ten years since I've been in Canada but I don't think the hunting and fishing Canadians have changed any) Good luck. (BTW, practice real patience in black bear hunting. You will sit for hours like a statue {the chipmunks used to run over my feet} and feeling like nothing will happen -and then like a ghost he is suddenly there! You may even think you are hallucinating! I kid you not and I hunted deer for many years before I went to Canada for bear. Where ever you go, enjoy your first bear hunt. I envy you.
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Gerry375: I´ve booked with pioneeroutfitters and I´m really looking forward to this hunt. Never thought I´d be interested in hunting North America but one day it just dawned on me -I want to hunt bear in Canada!
Glad to hear that you are going to Manitoba. The blacks (and some beautiful blonde variations) are really something. You will be in beautiful wilderness country. You don't mention what time of year you're going but I assume it's the Fall (Ontario banned Spring bear hunts some years ago but I don't know if any other provinces followed suit) Anyway, enjoy yourself and good luck.
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Gerry, Leaving on the 27:th, one week of hunting + arrival days. I´m pretty lucky as I´m going to SA with the family on the 27th of Febr for a two week stay.
An awful lot of us go bankrupt in hunting. You seem like you have a wife who puts up with what we spend on our "toys".
You mentioned leaving on the 27th - so that sounds like a Spring bear hunt. (27th of what month? In Manitoba, I would think that should be the 27th of April at the earliest) I hope (for your sake) that there are no Spring flies. ( as in Ontario) I won't bore you with details ( I know from reading posts that Finland hunters have Spring flies) but look into it. (To this day and it's over 15 years ago, I remember missing an absolutely huge black because, despite wearing a head net, the buzzing of the flies so distracted me that I jerked off a shot at a black who was as long as a large living room sofa) Enjoy your trip.
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It´s actually a fall hunt, I leave on the 27:th of August. Thanks for warning me about the flies, I´m pretty resistent to mosquitos but flies I hate.
My wife is VERY understanding of my hunting trips. Then again I don´t whine about her keeping a horse and being a silversmith -we both get to do our thing and they broke the mold after making her!
Glad to hear your hunt is in the Fall. The fly season is over by mid June I believe in most of Canada. (BTW, something I heard and which the fishermen on the site can say something about is that supposedly the flies never were out on a lake {usually called a "pond" by the locals in Ontario -even if it was a mile long) I doubt that you will even see very many mosquitoes. (I'm like you. Mosquitos I could always handle but flies simply drove me nuts) Don't want to jinx you but hope you'll post pics when you get back! Good Luck!
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We have very few flies in spring or fall but the mosquitos can be bad in the spring if we get alot of rain. Very few mosquitos in the fall. Fall is ussually hot dry days and cool nights. David Doan Pioneer Outfitters
It can be a long 7 or so hours on stand (always made more interesting as dark comes on and in Eastern Ontario where I did most of my hunting for bear, you had aiming light until nearly 8:30 or so in the Fall) You will get the biggest black bears in western Canada (I saw a Manitoba outfitter who responded. Talk to him. Those bears out there are truly large and with some beautiful color variations) Where ever you go (and I hunted blacks in New Brunswick and in Ontario, you will be treated well by the Canadians. (It's been ten years since I've been in Canada but I don't think the hunting and fishing Canadians have changed any) Good luck. (BTW, practice real patience in black bear hunting. You will sit for hours like a statue {the chipmunks used to run over my feet} and feeling like nothing will happen -and then like a ghost he is suddenly there! You may even think you are hallucinating! I kid you not and I hunted deer for many years before I went to Canada for bear. Where ever you go, enjoy your first bear hunt. I envy you.
