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DrMike
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Guy,
I'm going out again all day Monday and likely intermittently throughout the week. I intend to spend the day on Friday with boots on the ground. The season for bear (black and grizzly) runs from August 15 to November 15. Below 1100 meters, wolf does not close. Mule deer archery season runs from September 1-30, and the rifle season runs November 1-30 for 3 point bucks or larger with does running November 15-20. White-tailed deer bow season is past, but anterless is October 10-31 and either sex November 1-30. Elk is open from September 1-October 31, with 3 point bulls for my home area and six point bulls in the zone where I'm hunting grizzly. Anterless runs from September 15 through October 31. Moose runs from September 1-30, and again from October 16 through 31, except in the area where I'm hunting grizzly which has no break for the rut. Cougar is open September 10 through March 31. As you can see, there will be a fair amount of hunting on the agenda if I can work around work.
The black bear pictures you posted are excellent specimen, and the colour phase is really delightful. I've shot a couple of black bears that were just shy of 7 feet, but the more common around here are 5.5 to 6 feet. Consequently, a typical mountain grizzly is about 6.5 to 7 feet. A large one goes 8 feet or larger. I believe the largest I have seen, that I could verify, was 8 feet 10 inches. It put the run on me and another hunting partner. One of the gunsmiths shot it the following spring, so I'm very confident of the squared size. I can tell you this, at close range, he looked huge!
Scotty,
Yeah, that is the way we clean them. It is quick and easy. My wife asked why I didn't just split them like the chefs do quail on the cooking shows. Sometimes, you just can't win. I used to always carry a slingshot, but the T-bolt works better for me nowadays. Gil is addicted to the bow this year. I tease him about taking feathers from the tail and from the neck which ensures that the grouse that escape will catch cold and die.
I'm going out again all day Monday and likely intermittently throughout the week. I intend to spend the day on Friday with boots on the ground. The season for bear (black and grizzly) runs from August 15 to November 15. Below 1100 meters, wolf does not close. Mule deer archery season runs from September 1-30, and the rifle season runs November 1-30 for 3 point bucks or larger with does running November 15-20. White-tailed deer bow season is past, but anterless is October 10-31 and either sex November 1-30. Elk is open from September 1-October 31, with 3 point bulls for my home area and six point bulls in the zone where I'm hunting grizzly. Anterless runs from September 15 through October 31. Moose runs from September 1-30, and again from October 16 through 31, except in the area where I'm hunting grizzly which has no break for the rut. Cougar is open September 10 through March 31. As you can see, there will be a fair amount of hunting on the agenda if I can work around work.
The black bear pictures you posted are excellent specimen, and the colour phase is really delightful. I've shot a couple of black bears that were just shy of 7 feet, but the more common around here are 5.5 to 6 feet. Consequently, a typical mountain grizzly is about 6.5 to 7 feet. A large one goes 8 feet or larger. I believe the largest I have seen, that I could verify, was 8 feet 10 inches. It put the run on me and another hunting partner. One of the gunsmiths shot it the following spring, so I'm very confident of the squared size. I can tell you this, at close range, he looked huge!
Scotty,
Yeah, that is the way we clean them. It is quick and easy. My wife asked why I didn't just split them like the chefs do quail on the cooking shows. Sometimes, you just can't win. I used to always carry a slingshot, but the T-bolt works better for me nowadays. Gil is addicted to the bow this year. I tease him about taking feathers from the tail and from the neck which ensures that the grouse that escape will catch cold and die.
I may not have quite the time I have had for the last few years.
