I hope the following links will work. Had a great hunt in the Yukon with Trophy Stone Outfitters. 163bc

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here is a link to the entire thread & story. Thanks, 163bc

I have taken a few black bears in recent years and with a full caribou to pack out really didn't want to add skinning out a bear to the work. As it turned out I'm gald I didn't shoot it cause we were all day plus some packing the caribou out to where we could get to it with horses. The bear very nearly made me shoot him on a couple ocassions and most of the close up pics I got were taken with one hand while the other was holding my rifle folded across my picture taking arm with a round in the chamber . I was hunting with Yukon Stone Outfitters. This is their 1st year of operation in the Yukon after 20 plus years in BC. They bought the hunting rights in the area I hunted from Randy Babala earlier this year. I had booked my hunt earlier thru Atcheson & Sons to hunt with Babala and after the sale Keith Atcheson encouraged me to stay with the new operation and hunt this area. I'm sure glad I did. I shot both my animals with a Bansner Custom rifle in 300 Weatherby using my own handloaded 180 grain Nosler Accubonds. The sheep I shot at 350 yards and the caribou at 206 yds. Both ranges were taken by my guide and I with our own separate range finders so I know the yardages are accurate. Both animals were 1 shot kills. The sheep was a now or never shot moving away from me going up the mountain. I had a very solid rest and my bullet struck it in the side/belly just behind the last rib, went straight up thru the lungs, right thru the bottom of the heart and came out perfectly in the center of the off side shoulder. The sheep ran/rolled back down about 30 yards and fell over stone dead. My guide and I were 28 hours from the time we left camp until our return with the sheep. We had left our horses at the top of the mountain we had ridden to and climbed up to glass from. When we spotted the sheep they were on the next mountain over across a valley and a couple creeks. It took us 5 hours on foot to cover that and I shot at 9:15 PM. Full dark hit about 10:30 PM. We finished caping and stuff at around 1:00 AM and spent the night on the mountain, in the rain of course! Neither of us slept well or much! The pack back UP to our horses took us 13 hours!!!! Although extremly tiring it felt good and I was happy to have held up pretty well. I shot the caribou after chasing it around for 4 days or so after we first saw it. We galssed him from a spotting scope from about a mile the first time we saw him and stayed hunting him. We had a heck of a time getting to where this big bull was hanging out. I guess that's how he got so big! We didn't see him for 3 straight days but my guide was sure he was in the same general area. He said they seem to stay in a place if they are in velvet and feel safe. We finally saw him again and spent 1/2 day riding and climbing to get above him. I shot the bull while it was bedded at a hard downhill angle. The Accubond hit it high in the on side shoulder and angled down into the off side shoulder. The bullet did not pass thru. The bull never moved when hit other than his head and rack flopping to the ground. We came back next day with help and extra horses and that is when we encountered the bear. After squaring off with him and his deciding to settle for the gut pile we drug, rolled, kicked, pushed, pulled, and everything else we could think of until we were far enough away from the bear that we felt comfortable 1/4ing it up. After packing it out and loading it on horses when we got back to camp my guide and a wrangler rode and extra hour to an grass airstrip and dropped off the meat so it could be picked up by the outfitter. So I never got to dig around for the bullet but I can tell you it worked and I was very pleased with the results. It was a spectacular hunt and to say I was happy and thrilled is an understatement. I feel and am very fortunate to have been able to do a hunt like this one. 163bc

You took some excellent trophies. That caribou is awesome, I don't know much about sheep but yours looks like it has a really good curl!

How big was the bear?

Congrats 163bc! That is a very pretty curl on your fannin!

Who are the owners of Yukon Stone?

Cheers,
Canuck

Here is the link to Yukon Stone Outfitters.

http://www.yukonstone.com/

The owners are listed on the web site. As for the bear I quessed him to be in the 350 lb. range. The caribou green scored 406 & 6/8th and would easily make book if I stripped the velvet which I chose NOT to do. The sheep measured 39-1/4 & 39-1/2 w/green score in mid 160s. Thanks, 163bc

Beautiful trophies and it looks like you had a great hunt. I have done plenty of moose and caribou hunting but would love to hunt for sheep before I get too old
regards
dan

Dan, why don't you start planning one? There are some reasonable ones out there. I'm happy to recommend some if you want to talk to them. Dall in Alaska is probally the most reasonable out there now. Good luck and thanks for the compliments, 163bc