Brown bear down.

It is really nice to pull-off a ten day hunt on the second day. Saw another shooter that was quite a bit bigger than this 9' 01" bear, but the wind was wrong to do a stalk, and he was going away from us.
Needless to say, my hunter was extremely happy.
I've got to crop that shadow out of the picture of me.

Very nice!

Two different guys?

^^^^^
First picture is with my hunter, second is of me and bear from a different angle.

Green score?

Very nice coat, good looking bear Waggler!
This one's from DMB. 27"

Good looking bear waggler! Congrats on a successful hunt!

nooksack thats a good looking one as well!

27 8/16

Love those claws, awesome bear.

Great job waggler. Looks like Cold Bay country. Here is our biggest, daughter shot, 9’10”.

Great looking brown bears everyone!

Waggler I really like that light coloring of your clients bear. You don't seem to run across many that size that light.

Waggler, is that terrain as difficult to get around in as it looks?
Great bears, everyone!

Brutal.
I was in a four seater plane flying across that country once with a couple of guys from a big state in the lower 48; the two guys both about three hundred pounders. They were chuckling about how easy that flat terrain was going to be to move around in; little did they know.
Thankfully they were not my clients.

Heck it's even difficult to fly over it !!

Would love to hear the stories about these bear. Not just these, but some of your guys more memorable ones. They are on the bucket list, but we will see. By the time I save up enough, might be too old.

My first encounter with similar ground was west of Illiamna, caribou hunting. Drop hunt, and no 'bou around camp, but day 3 I spot a bull about 2 miles away.
Piece of cake. Got the bull, but learned a terrible lesson.
The rest of the trip was spent hunting within 1/4 mile of camp.

Beautiful bear Waggler, while any Large bear is an awesome creature that one is beautiful as well

Very nice bear. Beautiful country.

My hunter sent me a few more pictures. We can glass about 25 square miles from our glassing knob. All the pale colored ground is very difficult to traverse.

Stunning bears

What's the ladder for?

We often spot bears from our knob that are five miles or so away; out on the flats. Once we start stalking them and are down to the same level as the bear it can be nearly impossible to then see them. As we work up or down stream toward the bear we will occasionally set up the 10 foot step ladder on the creek bank to get some elevation in order to spot the bear we are stalking.
I shouldn't be giving away my secrets.

Awesome bears, guys! I love the spring claws.

I had a hunch that might be the case. I can't imagine packing a brownie hide in that country. Bad enough here on tide flats.

Looks like a cold ride in that boat !!

I carry a small trampoline for that same purpose

Eskimo blanket toss has the same source..............looking for whales offshore

Not too bad with the right gear. The strange thing though is that it doesn't matter what time of year it is in that region, I pretty much wear the same gear; even during the summer fishing season while gill-netting.

I know in the fall I would wear more in the boat in september/october than I do in February on the snowmachine !

Great sunset pic of you driving the boat.

Carrying the ladder or a trampoline is a great idea. Never hunted anything that flat before.

I was just joking about the trampoline btw

Did he say "flat"? lol

Jim

Guess "flat" is a relative term. How about lack of elevation? I am used to hunting other areas of Alaska and utilizing hills or mountains for spotting game, or hunting by boat along the coastline.

Ryan? How do you carry a trampoline when you go bear hunting?

Really nice bears! I messed up on a real big interior bear this spring. Been after him for two years. The mistake was all mine.

Great Bears y’all

Unit 13 caribou hunt last august 25 9/16ths a little south of the line for grizzly.

I curious about the summer coat on those August bears. That one looks pretty well covered, was it as good as it looks?
Does it still show evidence of rubbing, or has the hair grown out enough?
Those busted teeth always amaze me; can't imagine how they do that. I'm not very familiar with that unit, but that looks like a big bear for what I would expect there.

Looks like hair, no underfur. Flat, as it were. I see them like that, here.
Big one. Nice!

Kind of my thoughts too, but the belly looks like it's fairly well covered with nice long hair. Most summer bears I've seen (not many) seem to have really weak bellies that require dark spray paint to make them look decent; this one looks nice.

Real good bear for this area, I was pleasantly surprised with the hide, yes it will be flatter but it is well covered. His back half is wet as he almost went down in the water but i think real good hair for this time of year.

Cousin BAM got himself a nice grizzly a day after I got mine

Nice! Still snow?

That was may3

Congrats on all the bears. Fun to see. Hopefully I will be trying for my first brown bear on Kodiak this fall.

Real dandy Ryan. Is that a Henry rifle he is using?

Browning BLR.