August 12th, 2008 at 10:09 pm (Coastal Bear Hunting)
We recently received a question from a fellow bear hunter about the success rate of an Alaskan self guided bear hunt as compared to a guided bear hunt.
Our bear hunting cabin on the coast of Alaska.
I really think a guided black bear hunt on the coast of the US or Canada brings almost 100% success. Your full time is spent hunting on the guided hunt.
On a self-guided black bear hunt, depending on how much research is done you improve your time from cooking, cleaning, skinning and even scouting toward hunting so I think your odds of getting bears are good, for sure over 60% and perhaps approaching 80%. It is hunting so who knows for sure. In my opinion 80% is as good as 100% on a do-it-yourself bear hunt as long as the group you’re with is a fun and unselfish. I’m not saying you’ll get up to 100% on the self guided bear hunt but I’m trying to stress the fun of the process involved in a self guided black bear hunt.
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Don’t underestimate how much fun you can have pre and post bear hunt and enjoying others in your group having success.
Our bear hunting group in Petersburg, Alaska. Petersburg is a very cool little town.
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August 2nd, 2008 at 3:38 pm (Coastal Bear Hunting)
Here are a few photos of our bear hunting experience on the coast of Alaska. The first week of May in 2006 we spent on the coast of Kupreanof Island. We’ve decided we took too few pictures but truthfully the weather restricted our photo taking. On September 5th (one month from now) we take off for our next self guided, do-it-yourself bear hunt. This time we’re off to Prince of Wales Island, Alaska landing on Salmon Lake and doing this fall hunt along a great salmon stream called Karta River.
This is Nathan’s black bear that was shot about 30 yards from Frank’s bear. 21″ Plus skull.
Frank’s Alaskan Black Bear. 19″ Plus skull. Read the rest of this entry »
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July 3rd, 2008 at 2:31 pm (Coastal Bear Hunting)
We’ve blogged before on bear attacks and now everyone must have heard about the girl biker who was mauled by a grizzly outside of Anchorage Alaska on a 24 hour bike race. She must have surprised the grizzly bear and that is when the trouble started.
I feel bad and I felt worse when I spent the time reading 5-6 comments people sent in to the local newspaper. Most suggestions were to get rid of the humans and thus end the bear attacks. and bodybuilding breast augmentation
Warning sign posted outside of the bear attack scene.
Last year I was grizzly bear hunting in British Columbia with Harry Leuenberger of Baldy Mountain Outfitters
. That day I was a spotter for a stalk on a big black bear. I was walking down an easy trail, an old logging road, through dense cover. Around the corner I came and in one, maybe two seconds, I had a face-to-face encounter with a grizzly. Read the rest of this entry »
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June 23rd, 2008 at 9:57 pm (Coastal Bear Hunting)
Here are a couple of bear hunting tips regarding the ocean and tides. This will be helpful if you happen to be doing your black bear hunt with a boat and are subject to the Alaska tides.
A huge part of our Alaska bear hunts is the tide. Part of the reason that we chose the Salmon Lake Cabin on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska is because there is no tide on the lake….obviously. We had looked at other cabins in the Petersburg, Alaska area including, Big John Bay Cabin and the Tower’s Arm Cabin
which would have been great for a fall Alaska bear hunting experience, but the low tides would not allow a float plane to land on the date we had to leave. It would actually be possible, but the pilots and biologists in the area strongly recommended against it. Read the rest of this entry »
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