Back in the "woods"
04-11-2008, 12:47 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Kodiak, AK
Posts: 2,877
Back in the "woods"
In the fall I get all worked up and a bit jealous of all you guys that get to go out after work and climb up in a tree to deer hunt. You haven't got to bust your ass to hike 5 miles or climb 2000' to hunt deer and I suspect that most of you get to spend a lot more days/hours in a season hunting than we do up here even though we live in a hunter's "paradise". It's just a freakin' ordeal to get out and do any real hunting here for all the planning and expense that's involved. Then I had to chuckle to myself... I realized this as I was sitting glassing for brown bears after work yesterday in a spot I had driven about 15 miles to get to and hiked less than a mile. It's a spot that in the past 10 years has produced 3 top 10 B&C bears that would shatter the current archery world record. As I was glassing the huge tracks coming into and going out of the valley I thought to myself, "Yeah, okay I guess I haven't got it so bad afterall..."
Good luck with those turkeys everyone!!
Good luck with those turkeys everyone!!
04-11-2008, 01:38 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Nashville, Ohio
Posts: 1,109
RE: Back in the "woods"
Before I was done reading your entire post I was thinking "How could he miss hunting whitetails everyday when gets to hunt brown bears!!!!" LOL. Then I finished your post and got a good chuckle!
04-11-2008, 02:28 PM
#4
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: May 2005
Location: One mile east of West Podunk Tx
Posts: 5,973
RE: Back in the "woods"
I think if I'm ever fortunate enough to have the opportunity to hunt brown bears with my bow, well, Kodiak I'll need someone like you with me telling me, " Its OK to be scared, just don't crap in yer britches!"
04-11-2008, 02:49 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Northern Idaho's Panhandle
Posts: 4,436
RE: Back in the "woods"
No you dont have it so bad, to get to hunt the animals you can hunt up there, like those browns, dall sheep, moose, bou, etc.. That is something most bowhunters will never get to experience in a lifetime. I would love to get to hunt those giant bears.
04-11-2008, 03:39 PM
#6
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: Back in the "woods"
ORIGINAL: shed33
No you dont have it so bad, to get to hunt the animals you can hunt up there, like those browns, dall sheep, moose, bou, etc.. That is something most bowhunters will never get to experience in a lifetime. I would love to get to hunt those giant bears.
No you dont have it so bad, to get to hunt the animals you can hunt up there, like those browns, dall sheep, moose, bou, etc.. That is something most bowhunters will never get to experience in a lifetime. I would love to get to hunt those giant bears.
I would love to be in that neck of the woods.
04-11-2008, 04:42 PM
#8
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: Back in the "woods"
ORIGINAL: KodiakArcher
C'mon up Steve. Just ordered a half dozen GrizzlyStiks for my longbow. This is the year!
C'mon up Steve. Just ordered a half dozen GrizzlyStiks for my longbow. This is the year!
I can promise you some year I'll get there, finances suck right now.
