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2002 Hunting Summary
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Smoky
River Outfitting
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We started with a couple winter Wolf hunters they had pretty good
luck and took a nice blue Wolf out of a pack of ten and almost got
another. At one of the other baits Wolves could be herd howling at
the bait but would leave before legal shooting light. We saw lots
of Coyotes and did a little trapping and ski dooing.
This
spring was very late coming so I was a little worried as I had no
baits hit out of 30 for the first week but five days before the guys
got here things picked up fast. Our first group was from Spain so
we had many laughs trying to communicate but in the end got seven
bears for the four guys. The following week we had six guys take eight
bears so all in all things went good we also took our highest percentage
of color phase bears from Chocolate to White was 80%.
Last
week of August was the start of Archery Mule Deer and Whitetail season.
Butch was our first hunter he started off a little rough, hitting
a Buck in the front shoulder that was 30 inches wide but we kept at
it all week stalking about 3 Bucks a day and ended up with a 160 on
the last day. The next week was a lot of fun again we stalked about
three Bucks a day. Ryan shot a 160 on day three and Rick grazed a
160 low. The last day we seen a group of six bucks the biggest was
190 but our push never panned out. Total this season I seen five bucks
with drop tines and three clean 190 typicals. I was able to harvest
a good buck for myself that scored 217 non-typical. Very fun season.
Can't even imagine the bucks next year. The draw sure is working.
Elk
was very tough this year for my two Archery hunters. I called in a
nice 6x6 to 30 yards both guys drew on him but he wouldn't give them
good angle so he was very lucky to have ethical hunters that let him
grow another year. We had a bear rip up camp and Wolves 100 yards
away the guys hunted hard all week we chased a few but no Elk steak
for us just an adventure.
Rut
Moose hunts were incredible Bull Moose everywhere and good hunting
weather. Six for six the first week, and four for four for the second
week. Ten Bulls taken total with the biggest one 55 inches wide. Lot
of fun, good hunters and learned something new while taking pictures
of big moose have bullet in gun or wear running shoes. 