huntinstuff
10-03-2010, 09:47 AM
I spent most of September guiding in the Yukon. We took 4 great moose and clients were more than happy.
My friend Ronnie took this dandy moose. Ronnie, who had his 63rd birthday with us at camp, took this moose on his first full day with us.
http://i52.tinypic.com/15fvps.jpg
My guiding partner Scott. Definitely the best and strongest guy I have ever met in the business. I timed him quartering and bagging a Yukon moose. 1 hr and 10 minutes.
http://i51.tinypic.com/2627ckn.jpg
The next night, we had a visitor. A grizzly had been hanging around our camp for a couple days. We used an airhorn, fired shots, blasted propane cylinders etc etc in efforts to get him to leave. He didn't even flinch.
At 0336hrs on September 18th, the grizzly decided to try to enter my cabin.
I had Matt Gibson with me, a cameraman from Jim Shockey's show "The Professionals". I exited the cabin to be confronted by a 450-460lb grizzly at 5 ft. The griz headed towards Ronnie's cabin. Ronnie is hearing impaired and I feared for his safety. I exited the cabin and got between the griz and Ronnie.
Matt came out with a flashlight and I squared off with this bear. I had the 30-06 with Nosler Partition 180g handloads (same 30-06 I bought from AO member "209x50")
The griz took a run at Matt and I and I was forced to shoot him at a distance of 12ft. One round, between the eyes. The griz died instantlly. It was sickening. I have always wanted to get a griz, but not this way.
Our camp was clean, the meat was gone, but there was obviously some blood at the meat shack. But the griz wasn't interested in the meat shack. He was interested in us.
CO's were notified and I skinned the griz and had his remains flown out to Mayo. No issues at all.
Video (in nightvision) was taken at the time but I did not take any pics. The griz is not a trophy to me.
In short, be careful out there. We used every deterrent we had, including airhorns, firing warning shots, etc etc and the bear STILL came at us. Sometimes these things happen.
The griz DEFINITELY has a grudge against Jim Shockey as he tore out an Argo seat one morning and chewed it up. No blood on it or anything, just did it to be ornery.
http://i54.tinypic.com/w7g1e8.jpg
The argo camp I worked in north Yukon, 12 miles east of NWT border. Stunning.
http://i52.tinypic.com/29fzhj6.jpg
My friend Ronnie took this dandy moose. Ronnie, who had his 63rd birthday with us at camp, took this moose on his first full day with us.
http://i52.tinypic.com/15fvps.jpg
My guiding partner Scott. Definitely the best and strongest guy I have ever met in the business. I timed him quartering and bagging a Yukon moose. 1 hr and 10 minutes.
http://i51.tinypic.com/2627ckn.jpg
The next night, we had a visitor. A grizzly had been hanging around our camp for a couple days. We used an airhorn, fired shots, blasted propane cylinders etc etc in efforts to get him to leave. He didn't even flinch.
At 0336hrs on September 18th, the grizzly decided to try to enter my cabin.
I had Matt Gibson with me, a cameraman from Jim Shockey's show "The Professionals". I exited the cabin to be confronted by a 450-460lb grizzly at 5 ft. The griz headed towards Ronnie's cabin. Ronnie is hearing impaired and I feared for his safety. I exited the cabin and got between the griz and Ronnie.
Matt came out with a flashlight and I squared off with this bear. I had the 30-06 with Nosler Partition 180g handloads (same 30-06 I bought from AO member "209x50")
The griz took a run at Matt and I and I was forced to shoot him at a distance of 12ft. One round, between the eyes. The griz died instantlly. It was sickening. I have always wanted to get a griz, but not this way.
Our camp was clean, the meat was gone, but there was obviously some blood at the meat shack. But the griz wasn't interested in the meat shack. He was interested in us.
CO's were notified and I skinned the griz and had his remains flown out to Mayo. No issues at all.
Video (in nightvision) was taken at the time but I did not take any pics. The griz is not a trophy to me.
In short, be careful out there. We used every deterrent we had, including airhorns, firing warning shots, etc etc and the bear STILL came at us. Sometimes these things happen.
The griz DEFINITELY has a grudge against Jim Shockey as he tore out an Argo seat one morning and chewed it up. No blood on it or anything, just did it to be ornery.
http://i54.tinypic.com/w7g1e8.jpg
The argo camp I worked in north Yukon, 12 miles east of NWT border. Stunning.
http://i52.tinypic.com/29fzhj6.jpg