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09-22-2018, 03:43 PM
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grizzly spotted
Another grizzly has been sighted near Drayton Valley. |Range Rd 84 near Violet Grove. Not nearly as rare as they used to be..
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09-22-2018, 03:51 PM
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Following the river i bet
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09-22-2018, 04:13 PM
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It is sort of a funnel because the bear is between the Pembina and the NSR. Right on the edge of the forests too. Not the first bear or the last to be in the area. I gotta get a fishing rod that holds a couple 30-06 shells in it for next time I go fishing around there.
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09-22-2018, 04:33 PM
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I have to ask, RE, Grizz...
How do you guys and gals keep the thoughts in the back of your mind when you're in the field. Especially when dressing an animal. Knowing, truthfully there are so many Grizzly out there... I'm a paraplegic, so I always have someone with me yet it is very unnerving to me. Son of gun, even with a few people on hand, they come in totally unafraid, aiming to take what they want.
I admire those who spend days in the field, sleeping under the stars, doing what we all love. Even with 'top of the food chain' hunters out there.
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09-22-2018, 05:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Howard Hutchinson
I have to ask, RE, Grizz...
How do you guys and gals keep the thoughts in the back of your mind when you're in the field. Especially when dressing an animal. Knowing, truthfully there are so many Grizzly out there... I'm a paraplegic, so I always have someone with me yet it is very unnerving to me. Son of gun, even with a few people on hand, they come in totally unafraid, aiming to take what they want.
I admire those who spend days in the field, sleeping under the stars, doing what we all love. Even with 'top of the food chain' hunters out there.
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I, myself, when I was younger I was invincible and knew no fear. I used to go fishing alone right where these bears are being seen and sleep under the stars with no tent and no gun or spray. Dressing out a big game animal out there a gun was always propped up within arms reach. Never had a visitor thank heavens.
Now spending anytime in bear country and I become alert and aware just like every other animal. Sleep becomes short semi conscious catnaps with one eye and one ear opened. Hiking with eyes in the back of my head and ears to the ground.
With bears being conditioned to know a gunshot might mean a free supper I think now I, if alone, would carry a 100 watt boom box with some pounding scream metal to play while dressing an animal. And a strobe light.
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09-22-2018, 05:34 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Howard Hutchinson
I have to ask, RE, Grizz...
How do you guys and gals keep the thoughts in the back of your mind when you're in the field. Especially when dressing an animal. Knowing, truthfully there are so many Grizzly out there... I'm a paraplegic, so I always have someone with me yet it is very unnerving to me. Son of gun, even with a few people on hand, they come in totally unafraid, aiming to take what they want.
I admire those who spend days in the field, sleeping under the stars, doing what we all love. Even with 'top of the food chain' hunters out there.
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Put it in perspective... driving on Deerfoot is far more dangerous.
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09-22-2018, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by drhu22
Put it in perspective... driving on Deerfoot is far more dangerous.
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Yes it is and by a long country mile.
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09-22-2018, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Howard Hutchinson
I have to ask, RE, Grizz...
How do you guys and gals keep the thoughts in the back of your mind when you're in the field. Especially when dressing an animal. Knowing, truthfully there are so many Grizzly out there... I'm a paraplegic, so I always have someone with me yet it is very unnerving to me. Son of gun, even with a few people on hand, they come in totally unafraid, aiming to take what they want.
I admire those who spend days in the field, sleeping under the stars, doing what we all love. Even with 'top of the food chain' hunters out there.
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Attitude and awareness. I’m out there and yogi better run or I’ll feed him to the magpies (no I haven’t had to yet). I’ve made up my mind there is one allowable reaction from a bear within rifle range that becomes aware of my presence, he better run like his tail is on fire.
Awareness come in many forms: checking your back trail often, paying attention to the birds and squirrels and smells, keeping the gun loaded and in reach, wearing bear spray as soon as your outta the truck, being able to disassemble an animal quickly, hanging the meat in a spot visible from a distance, leaving sweaty clothes around.
And like the guys are saying, driving to work is far more dangerous. It’s all what you’re used to.
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09-22-2018, 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by 3blade
Attitude and awareness. I’m out there and yogi better run or I’ll feed him to the magpies (no I haven’t had to yet). I’ve made up my mind there is one allowable reaction from a bear within rifle range that becomes aware of my presence, he better run like his tail is on fire.
Awareness come in many forms: checking your back trail often, paying attention to the birds and squirrels and smells, keeping the gun loaded and in reach, wearing bear spray as soon as your outta the truck, being able to disassemble an animal quickly, hanging the meat in a spot visible from a distance, leaving sweaty clothes around.
And like the guys are saying, driving to work is far more dangerous. It’s all what you’re used to.
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Smells you say? Are they that rank?
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09-22-2018, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by angler1
Another grizzly has been sighted near Drayton Valley. |Range Rd 84 near Violet Grove. Not nearly as rare as they used to be..
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It's been hanging around the Pembina horse trails and a couple farms there for a week or so. Good sized boar. Was in a miniature donkey pasture eating their grain and broke into an outside freezer and ate some goodies, never botherd the livestock or anything else. Bear was not aggressive to the people who live there shouting at it to go away.
Another grizzly has been hanging out right outside DV in the NSR Valley by Wiley west campground, been seen and photographed by various people throughout the summer.
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09-22-2018, 09:29 PM
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Apparently, about a half dozen hanging around Bergen, would you believe. Somebody got pictures of two separate trios of a sow and two cubs on their trail cam.
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09-23-2018, 01:56 AM
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Working south of grande prairie we've seen 6 different grizz in the last 3 days counting a sow with 2 Cubs awesome to see!! Lots of sitings for a province that doesn't have any?? The snow lately sure has them out on the fresh veggies on the new pipeline right aways.
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09-23-2018, 09:26 AM
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Fins and feathers trapped a 2 year old grizzly at our place. Halfway between Drayton and Entwistle. Our place is on the Pembina. Been seeing a definite increase in grizzly and cougar traffic last couple years.
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09-23-2018, 12:36 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cdmc
Fins and feathers trapped a 2 year old grizzly at our place. Halfway between Drayton and Entwistle. Our place is on the Pembina. Been seeing a definite increase in grizzly and cougar traffic last couple years.
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How long ago?
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