Just finished a great hunt with Jake Jefferson, who owns Black River Hunting Camps. Jake has been hunting and guiding for a long time and is a top notch guide as well as a solid and good guy to spend time outdoors with. Got a beautiful Grizzly, and had an overall tremendous time. If you are looking for an Alaska hunt where the outfitter will be your giude, I could not recommend Jake more highly. He is fair, hardworking, and a staightshooter. Hos moose jalepeno\cheese hot dogs are something also to look forward to

Thanks for coming up cowpuncher! Enjoyed sharing Alaska with you and helping get that bear his all expenses paid trip to NM!!

Congratulations !! Hopefully it fulfilled your lifelong dream ! Beautiful color phase also...now fill in all the details for those of us who dream the dream also..set the scene, gun, loads, scope, the story of the hunt and what we all love lots more pics...CONGRATULATIONS !!

Welcome to AR NMcowpuncher!! Great bunch of folks here.

I'll jump in, cowpuncher has been on ar for a while but a long time ago. Forgot all his login stuff!
His gun was a 340 wbthy shooting 250gr tsx. Bear was 110 yards. Dropped him at 7pm about five miles or so from the tent. At 9pm we started walking back, after falling in the river crossing and the rain starting we were both soaked, we climbed up about a thousand feet and set up a tarp to ride out the darkness and rain before attempting the wet rock fields and last 1000' mountain slope and two mile trek we had ahead of us. About 330am we could see well enough to navigate and continued on in the rain. 630am we arrived at the tent and of course then the rain stopped!! Exciting one day hunt with more adventure than you could pack into one trip!!

Here I am helping this guy outa his parka...
Hard to beat a havalon knife!!

Thank You .416, I appreciate your filling this information...also for taking the time out of your busy schedule to respond....you don't know how much the members appreciate the details...I wish you well this season and hope all your clients fill their tags and we know you'll do you best to see to that. Love these giant brownie stories, ...be safe and keep you eyes open !!!

Thanks Jake,
Appreciate you filling in the details. As can be determined by Jake's info, it was an exciting hunt. Jake is a real professional. The planning and execution was great, and the wisdom and being able to adjust to the circumstances were much appreciated. Anyone wanting to hunt with both an excellent outfitter/guide, and all around solid citizen would be well-served with Jake Jefferson.

Congrats on your bear cowpuncher!
I'm headed up to hunt bear with Jake in October. From my conversations with him he seems to have a good sense of humor too, which is a huge plus in my book.
Can't think of a better time to be had at my favorite time of year.

My congrats also cowpuncher.
I'm also meeting up with Jake on the 23rd of this month for a bear hunt. Needless to say I am looking forword to meeting him in person. I will post here when I get back!! I personally feel we couldn't have picked a better guy to go with.