DeerTracker
Handloader
- Nov 19, 2010
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Ive seen 6 grizzlies in less than a week around Choteau. Last Thursday my girlfriend and I went out to scout for big whitetail bucks and not 100 yards from my retired pastor's house, a big boar, probably 500-600lbs was walking across the cut alfalfa field right by the road. I thought it was a horse at first and couldnt figure out why he had horses in his swathed field until I realized how it was walking. We watched it walk up into the trees and I called a buddy to tell him. While I was on the phone with him, I saw something else walking along the tree line and realized it was a sow with two cubs that were as big as she was. Of course we didnt have a camera with us but my buddy brought his wife, son, and his girlfriend out and my dad and sister came and watched them too. Fast forward to today.
I work for the Teton County Weed District and we took a day off from spraying and went down on the Teton River to catch Leafy Spurge beetles to release in other parts of the county. Well my two buddies from work and I were off sweeping our nets through the weeds and looking for shed antlers. We came up out of a little creek bed and I smelled something dead. We walked about 20 yards and came across an old dead elk carcass from earlier this summer. We walked another 30 yards and crossed the fence and I just happened to look through the bushes ahead of us and another grizzly was standing about 75 yards from us out in a wheat field! The wheat was probably 3 feet tall and there was at least another couple feet of him sticking out of the wheat. It had to be a big boar. We yelled and whistled at him to get him to run off since we had a bunch of people spread out all over catching bugs too. But he just looked at us and didnt do anything. He wasnt scared at all. We headed straight back to the truck and told anyone we saw and everyone ended up catching bugs on the opposite side of the property the rest of the day.
Then this evening, my girlfriend and I went for another drive to look for deer and saw another big grizzly. We watched him for a while and called my parents to come watch him too. We watched him for over an hour tonight. He fed for a while and then laid down in the grass and rolled around like a dog for at least 15-20 mins then he got up and walked off in the trees.
All of these bears have been seen within 2 miles of where I park my truck to hunt whitetails. If we are already seeing this many bears now, they are going to be everywhere once the chokecherries get ripe. I might have to find a different place to bow hunt for a while till they head back up to the mountains!
My digital camera and video camera are going to go everywhere with me now. We probably wont see anymore either!
I work for the Teton County Weed District and we took a day off from spraying and went down on the Teton River to catch Leafy Spurge beetles to release in other parts of the county. Well my two buddies from work and I were off sweeping our nets through the weeds and looking for shed antlers. We came up out of a little creek bed and I smelled something dead. We walked about 20 yards and came across an old dead elk carcass from earlier this summer. We walked another 30 yards and crossed the fence and I just happened to look through the bushes ahead of us and another grizzly was standing about 75 yards from us out in a wheat field! The wheat was probably 3 feet tall and there was at least another couple feet of him sticking out of the wheat. It had to be a big boar. We yelled and whistled at him to get him to run off since we had a bunch of people spread out all over catching bugs too. But he just looked at us and didnt do anything. He wasnt scared at all. We headed straight back to the truck and told anyone we saw and everyone ended up catching bugs on the opposite side of the property the rest of the day.
Then this evening, my girlfriend and I went for another drive to look for deer and saw another big grizzly. We watched him for a while and called my parents to come watch him too. We watched him for over an hour tonight. He fed for a while and then laid down in the grass and rolled around like a dog for at least 15-20 mins then he got up and walked off in the trees.
All of these bears have been seen within 2 miles of where I park my truck to hunt whitetails. If we are already seeing this many bears now, they are going to be everywhere once the chokecherries get ripe. I might have to find a different place to bow hunt for a while till they head back up to the mountains!
My digital camera and video camera are going to go everywhere with me now. We probably wont see anymore either!
