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Spring Black Bear |
This was a very exciting
spring for us. Our new area North of Fort McMurray turned out to be
better than we could have imagined. It was a lot of hard work establishing
this new area, with a lot of bridges to build & setting up the
remote camps. It was a great adventure for us as guides and for the
clients being in an untouched hunting area. All together we had 18
hunters shoot 29 bears, 10 of these bears were over 400lbs. With at
least 4 in the 500lb range. Most bears were black in color but we
did get some color phases, about 20%. Next year will be better yet
with a lot of the work out of the way and 3 new areas discovered.
Can't wait to get back up there.
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| Archery
Mule Deer |
Again this season we
had 4 archery hunters and killed 3 bucks. The 4th guy had some bad
luck wounding a 170 class and missing a 160 class buck. John Berger
set the new record for quickest kill after getting off the airplane,
1 ½ hours.
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| Elk |
This year we had terrible
weather for calling Elk. We started off with rain and ended with wind.
The hunters toughed it out but we were only able to take 5 bulls for
8 hunters. Elk numbers are the best ever for this area but we do need
the weather to cooperate. Looking forward to next year.
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| Moose |
Moose hunts went very
good. The trophy hunters went 100% with 4 for 4 and our main camp
hunt was 10 for 8. With 1 guy missing a nice 50-inch bull that was
following a trotting cow. We have now taken 57 moose hunters since
2000 for 54 bull moose. Numbers will be good next year as well.
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