Some of the bears we did not get
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From: Bear Track
12-Dec-15
Hi all.
With booking season upon us and questions I get regarding sizes and numbers of our bears, I thought an interesting thread to run would focus on the bears we never did get, for one reason or another this last spring. Though we harvest 20-30% color phase bears and with that, the majority of the colored bears being cinnamon, big bears are there and though not behind every tree, we try to target them and these pictures for this spring even make my guides and me anxious to get out there and try for them. An 18-20" bear may be not impossible to kill and to the contrary, very doable. \let me tempt you with a few pictures before I head out to my Jeannine's Christmas party.
From: Bear Track
12-Dec-15
This was the first picture we got last spring and he never did shed those burrs.
From: Bear Track
12-Dec-15
Another one with burrs
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12-Dec-15
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12-Dec-15
This is the one we tried to put bowsiter Wapitiwoman on but never did
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12-Dec-15
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From: SteveB
12-Dec-15
Great bears Ron!
From: kellyharris
12-Dec-15
Awesome bears
From: Bear Track
13-Dec-15
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13-Dec-15
Pretty neat to know this boy's still there.
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13-Dec-15
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From: carcus
13-Dec-15
Nice bears, must take weeks to go through all the photos!
From: Bear Track
13-Dec-15
I does take a while to go through them, but these ones I saved as we found them after checking our cameras this past spring and we had these bears targeted for our hunters.
This is one of the bears I tried to put Ghostbird on.
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13-Dec-15
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13-Dec-15
Another one I had for Ghostbird. I know he likes the site, maybe this year.
From: Bear Track
13-Dec-15
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13-Dec-15
This picture I saved just to show how odd the size of the head is compared to the body. I had to shoot a bear like this when I was guiding caribou hunters back in/92. That skull scored 22 8/16.
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13-Dec-15
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13-Dec-15
Look how they've flattened my barrel!
From: Bear Track
13-Dec-15
This bear has been avoiding me for 2 years. He did give one of our hunters fits a year ago when he laid down behind him and went to sleep and the guest listened to him snore for an hour.
From: Bear Track
13-Dec-15
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13-Dec-15
Look in the background.
From: Bear Track
13-Dec-15
Bear Track's Link
I thought I'd close this thread with proof we do shoot big ones too. Though somewhere in this lap top are more pictures, I did not find them. We have a few openings for this spring and if you want to go to our auction thread, enter your bid, or contact us directly.
Thanks for following along.
From: Ibow
13-Dec-15
Great picts... Once again, your guys are going to be into some great hunting this spring!
From: Bou'bound
13-Dec-15
how big is the one you shot
From: Bear Track
13-Dec-15
I don't shoot bears 'Bou and neither do my guides. If we were to shoot one, that's one my guests would not have a chance at. I did ask Jeannine if she was interested in taking a bear for our cabin, and she said she was not, so guess we won't have one then.
From: Nick Muche
13-Dec-15
That chocolate one looks to have a large noggin! I can't wait for spring. Good luck.
From: Skippy
13-Dec-15
Nice bears Ron, as always. Looking forward to June 2016!
From: GhostBird
13-Dec-15
I sat one afternoon last year waiting on that chocolate boar. Dang wind did not cooperate to sit there after that. I'll be back this spring to complete the mission.
Ron, save that one for me!!! Ha, ha... just kidding, but not really...
From: Bear Track
13-Dec-15
Ghostbird........Really, I'll save it for you for the week you're coming. I have 40 sites, saving one is not a problem.
From: wild1
13-Dec-15
Yep, that chocolate snoring bear is a beauty!
From: Carnage2011
14-Dec-15
I was excited for our bear hunt before this thread, but now I'm really excited! Can't wait for the Spring to get here! See you at the end of May Ron!
From: Bear Track
14-Dec-15
And Heath, those bears and more are asleep waiting for you to get to camp. I'm thinking this was about 2/3rds of the pictures we saved from this past spring. Hope you can fall asleep tonight. Ha!
From: Skippy
15-Dec-15
Ron was that chocolate on the Frenchman Rapids bait?
From: Skippy
15-Dec-15
Ron was that chocolate on the Frenchman Rapids bait?
From: Bear Track
15-Dec-15
Which chocolate? If you're referring to the monster laying facing the camera, that's on the Feather Bait. There was another picture of one at Frenchman Rapids, then another at Rick's Bait. If I knew where the colored bears run to, I'd sleep better at night. Those bears travel so much during the rut and generally all spring, it's only knowing there's a colored one there then he's gone, that we understand they are travelling looking for skirts. The black ones all look the same and we don't notice they are missing from a particular site unless he's a jumbo.
From: Skippy
15-Dec-15
The chocolate with the river in the background
From: Bear Track
16-Feb-16
I just found this one from couple years ago and we never did get him. Maybe this year.
From: Iowahunter
16-Feb-16
Real good bears
From: Brotsky
03-Mar-16
Aww man, I never should have looked at this thread. Now I feel like a high school boy when his girl tells him prom is the night, but prom is two months away! Ha!
Ghostbird, I promise I'll try not to shoot that big chocolate if I'm lucky enough to see him so you can have an opportunity. I won't promise how hard I'll try though!
From: GhostBird
03-Mar-16
Don't pass the big chocolate on my account!!!
... unless you would feel really bad about it.
From: Bear Track
03-Mar-16
We still have that white bear up there yet. I've never got a picture of it but the helicopter pilot told me he saw it with another monster black. I'd assume if was with another big bear, it was a sow. Before we had all these cameras out, I'd string a line of barbed wire near by to catch a bit of hair and over at the Ambush bait is where we got the white fur and the pilot saw it less that a half mile from there.
From: Reflex
03-Mar-16
Wow! Awesome bears. I hope you get a chance at him this year, Andy!
From: Deano @ Work
04-Apr-16
I think I recognize some of those bait sites.
From: Bear Track
04-Apr-16
I know you recognize that giant cinnamon! You had to listen to him snore for near an hour one night.
From: Deano @ Work
05-Apr-16
You had to remind me. I obsessed over that bear. Still think of him often. Damnit.
From: Charlie Rehor
11-Apr-16
This should get the Wounded Warriors coming pretty excited!! Thanks Ron
