This is a great opportunity if you want to harvest a Boone and Crocket with bow. You will also have the option to hunt with hounds. I just hired a new hounds man that has 20 trained hounds that he runs consistently. He has over 25 years of Bear guiding experience and has hunted throughout the country. I am reducing the price to $6,000 for the November season for a 500 pound trophy bear.



We have some of the largest Black Bears in the world. Eastern NC is now the go to place for the large black bear. Average bear is around 400 to 430 and several trophies over 500. Come and see why Jim Shockley hunts Black Bear in Eastern NC. There was a 782 pound bear harvested last year about six miles from one of our concessions.
We are offering two packages.

Guarantee Quality Black Bear. This is a bear that is 250 or larger. Cost is $4,000 with a $1,000 trophy fee if bear is over 500lbs.

Guarantee Trophy Black Bear. This is a bear over 500lbs. Cost is $7,500 Limited number of these hunts and NC has a short bear season.

Season 1 November 9-14. Legal to bait with non processed food sources during this season.
Season 2 December 14-26 Baiting with non processed foods is not permitted during this season.

All hunts are fully guided. Packages include lodging and airport pickup from RDU International.

All hunting is fair chase on private family owned and leased land of Purvis Farms.
Outfitter is Captain Clark Purvis
252-826-4288
www.roanokeriverwaterfowl.com/

Let's talk....I have been wanting to do a coastal NC bear for a long time....but only if it is a monster. Is this Hyde county?

Yes. Northern part of Hyde and Tyrell. Also Beaufort, Martin, Bertie, Hertford and Halifax.

Is your guarantee hunt no kill, no pay ?

Yes or come back the following season.

Sounds like a very fair deal.

Discount on trophy Black Bear. See first post about this package.

Pay be the inch, or in this case weight, is something I'll never participate in. IMO it's a ridiculous way to conduct an outfitting business.

I know of five other outfitters that are getting 10,000 for a 500 pound bear. I am simply offering a discount. This is all free range hunting. No high fences here in Eastern NC. I can assure you that there will be no small bear killed on my land. I am sorry that you do not like my offer. I also have a no shoot no pay policy. Is that a ridiculous way to run an Outfitting Business? My clients would disagree. I believe that an Outfitter should be paid on performance as well a safe, and quality hunt. References available upon request.

Hunters go to Eastern NC specifically for a huge black bear of exceptional trophy quality and for an entirely different experience. There are plenty of places to go for a 200 pound bear...but if you are going to the Coast, you want to know that you are going to be tackling a monster. Guaranteeing a size adds legitimacy to the outfitter letting you know that this is the place to go to get what you want. This is actually indirectly the same thing that goes on with all hunts. I can go to Colorado and shoot a 5X5 for about 4k, but can go to private land in New Mexico and shoot a 350 6X6 for 8 grand.

This is an amazing offer and something I badly want to do in the next couple of years.

This is a picture that was sent to me of a bear that is close to one of my leases.

What a Brute!!!

This pictured was taken in the last three nights close to the lodge. I think that he will make 500lbs but what is impressive about this bear is his skull. Should make Boone and Crockett.

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Originally posted by Capt. Purvis:


This is a picture that was sent to me of a bear that is close to one of my leases.

That bear needs to stop skipping leg day....

This isn't, in any way, a criticism but that's the strangest mature bear I"ve ever seen. I've watched hundred's of black and perhaps a hundred or so brown bear thru bioculars and spotting scopes while living in Alaska and I never saw an adult bear where the belly was so far of the ground you could easily seen under the bear - never.

The size of the head and the relative size of the year's show it's a trophy but what's with the legs? That has got to be at least 12 inches of clearance,

Impressive looking Black Bear, woa.
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. . . I never saw an adult bear where the belly was so far of the ground you could easily seen under the bear - never. . .

DB Bill, here's my explanation . . . like all old men, he sucked in his gut for the foto op, see how his back is raised

Just wanted everyone to know that there are no extra fees on this package. Both packages come with a taxidermist onsite that will properly skin your trophy and take care of all meat. There is also no fee for any equipment required to get trophy out of bush. It is common for our bears to run into thick bush and we may have to retrieve trophy with the use a bobcat with a fecon head or bulldozer. All of this information with specifics will be written in a contract.

DB Bill,

I really do not have an explanation for ground clearance. I will get some additional pictures for you to see. I can not find a way to keep these things from eating our game cameras. My brother just got a new 5,000 acre lease. They left a four wheeler there over the weekend and bears ate all of the tires and seat in that time.
I had a big female charge me last year and I remember that her belly was very close to the ground. I thought that it was because she was pregnant.

I live in Eastern NC and hunt black bear in a little different area. These really are the largest black bear in the world. The reason why is that they grow 11.5 months a year. They do not hybernate. They only lay down for a couple of weeks. In Alaska, they grow for 6 months and then shrink for 6 months. The coastal ones do have the advantage of salmon though. In eastern Nc a 5 year old bear is 400 plus. They do eat acorns, but they also raid the crop fields and feast on Corn, Soy Beans and blueberrys. We age the bears by the teeth. I shot a 10 year old spring bear in Alberta with a bow and it only weighed 225. The reason for the ground clearance on this one is that it was a tall bear. Bear are like people, some are short and stout, some are tall and thin, this is one that was tall and thin and just got thick. He will go 600 plus. My friend shot a short stout one on his land that broke the 500lb scale. Its waist was by far largest than its length. We try to shoot all of these guys at the base of the brain so there is no tracking. They go into the thick stuff where you have to belly crawl and that is no fun going after a wounded bear

Leave it to a teenager-I showed it to my grandson and he said "it looks like he just pinched off a loaf" and I very quickly told his mom he never heard that from me.

Cap
Great way to do business and that is a hell of a hunt
What a Bears
Keep it up
Milan

This picture was taken this week with our hounds on a hunt in West Virginia.

Guarantee
Question

If you book a $7500 hunt and don't shoot
a 500 us bear What then???????

Money back or come back next year. This is also a free range hunt. We have that many big bears on our property.

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Originally posted by Capt. Purvis:
This picture was taken this week with our hounds on a hunt in West Virginia.

That is a GREAT picture!

I very much appreciate the "no shoot, no pay" offer. It tells me that you are very confident about your ability to put me in front of a big bear and it puts the financial risk on you to perform. Many others just take the money and come up with an excuse when things go south. This is something that I am very interested in for a future hunt. Well done!

I have a friend here in northern virginia that is interested in a large black bear. Do you have anything left this season?
Brent

I think this bear walk up to where I was deer hunting this evening. He stood 20 yards from me for at least a minute. He should go 300 but a good example of the Minimum that we want to harvest.
Amazing how quiet they can walk through the woods. It is like they glide without a crackling a dead leave! Ready for the season to begin.

If you get your bear early and want to deer hunt it is available at a discounted rate. We have one of the highest deer populations in the country. With your regular license you get six deer tags and three of them can be bucks. We do not have Boone and Crocket Deer like the northern states but we do regularly shoot 130 to 140 class deer. Below is a high 120 class buck my 9 year old just harvested.

Waterfowl is also in season.

That is quite the mixed bag of waterfowl!

We get a good variety of species. See video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOmJBvuMHUA




Some recent bear pictures.

Holy gawd almighty! I am interested got family in area didn't know it was bear town USA. I like the fact risk is shared on this what a great deal. OTC tags I assume? Not sure how it works there

Dang, I didn't know those NC bear occurred in coveys.

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This is a picture that was sent to me of a bear that is close to one of my leases.

That's a pig for sure. Hunting with the hounds is blast for sure,

Today was the opening day of the season. This was from this morning hunt. One was killed still hunting and other with dogs. They weighed 525 and 491. For those of you that contacted me. I will only hold these current prices over to 2016 if I have some sort of deposit by December. I will be advertising in two national magazine and will be at most major shows. Still have some openings for this season but please only inquire if you are seriously interested. Remember this is fair chase no shoot no pay! Be safe and good hunting.


This is a buck that I stalked yesterday.

Good Lord! There are 7 bears in that one picture! How many bears can a hunter expect to see on a hunt there? I got giddy hunting in WV and I saw a sow with 3 cubs- and I wasn't even bear hunting!

The 3 Bears. I think that they may have eaten Goldilocks.

Last day to book at the above discount prices for the 2016 Season. Hope to meet some of you this show season in Vegas and at some of the other shows.