I'm heading up to Juneau to get on a boat and cruise around Admiralty Island for 12 days looking for brown bear. I booked this hunt almost a year ago after I had to cancel a Buff hunt in Tanzania due to cancer surgery and subsequently 6 months of chemo. At that point the brown bear gained higher priority (although currently a future buff hunt is still looking possible). I'll bring back plenty of photos and hopefully a respectable brown bear.

DennisHP ----- Good luck, my Brown Bear hunt near Cold Bay is still the highlight of my hunting career. The Buff in Tanzania was a very very close second. Who are you going with and what are you shooting. Good luck and good shooting.

I'm going with Mike Soufoulis of Alaska Coastal Guiding and will be using my Win Model 70 375H&H with 300gr Swift A-Frames. Thanks for the good luck wish!

HP,
I hope you got a clean bill on the Big C. Not something to mess around with. I'm in for some cutting on my head and face soon. All this is from childhood before good sunscreen. I've had 19 removed so far, but they just keep popping up. A real pain. Have a good hunt and live every day like it was your last.

Dennis, I'll give you a little update.

I picked up my Resident BB tag on Tuesday last week. I registered for Units 1C (mainland) and 4 (Admiralty) Went down to my family's cabing for four days. Did a little Blue Grouse hunting and crabbing. Pretty much snowing down to 500-1,000 ft at night - unseasonably cold [and the ski areas has been closed for 2-weeks!!!]

I was not specifically targeting bears this trip, but any bear poking his nose out of the den would have (should have) gone right back in. We were going to troll along Glass Peninsula on the way back to Juneau, but the weather was too skunky for my 22-footer.

If the weather warms up to normal, I'm thinking May 15 will be prime time. I'm heading back over to Seymour with hopes of seeing one worth putting my tag on. I'm shooting a .375 Taylor with 300 gr Partitions.

No bear sightings that I know of yet. Usually the urban/garbage bears start showing up about now. Look me up while you are in town if you want. I'll PM you my work and home #. My wife's been thru chemo and radiation for breast cancer so I know what you've been thru.

Here's to blue skies, flat water and big bruins!!



MM

Thanks for the replys. Hopefully the weather will cooperate. With 12 days you would think a window would open up so I'm not going to worry yet. My colon cancer metastisized to my liver but was caught real early. I had a second procedure where they went in and literally cooked a couple pencil eraser sized spots and when I get back it's another CT scan for me. I hope to take out my aggression on a brownie.

good luck, be safe, be warm and dry, get a nice one.

Dennis

Wish you the best toward having a fun safe and enjoyable trip.

Don't let a brownie chew on you either.

George