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2006 Hunting Summary
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Our
2006 season started with our May black bear hunts. The weather was
great and trail conditions were pretty good. We started brand new
bait run to the North in the Birch Mountains; this area had an unusual
high number of color phase bears. We also discovered a new trail
at trophy camp that heads south into untouched area for 2007. All
in all every hunter got at least one bear, we had 18 hunters with
29 bears total.
Archery
Mule deer was the best ever with stalks everyday and four hunters
shooting four bucks as well as Gunther and myself tagged nice bucks.
The scores were 183, 176, 150, 174 and 2 average bucks. Some of
the best shooting we have seen from our bow hunters, well except
for one guy but we won't mention Mike's name because in the end
he redeemed himself with a last evening kill.
Next
was archery Elk which was excellent with bulls calling very good.
It was an awesome week with a rough ending as a nice bull was
wounded at 12 yards. Brian was very good about it and opted not
to try for another bull as we both felt the wounded bull would
die and end up feeding the wolves. I am very pleased with Brian's
decision and will be looking forward to hunting with him again.
Moose
season started with a twang when our luckiest hunter ever, 1 hour
into his archery moose hunt with my bow shot an 800lb dressed out
old bull. I will give Eddie credit for following instructions perfectly.
Eddie was able to shoot his Elk in 15 min., his Archery Bull Moose
in 1 hour and archery bear during supper off the lodge deck at 6
yards. The following 2 weeks was rut moose where 13 moose hunters
killed 12 bulls with a couple over 50 inches. Moose are at an all
time high, it was lots of fun.
Next
I got to hunt for myself and took my best Whitetail yet 177 gross,
October 29th; it was very nice to have the pressure off early this
year. Gunther looked after all the whitetail hunts this year his
archery hunts were a bow hunters dream with 2 bucks over 170 with
only 3 hunters. His dedication to year round scouting paid off extremely
well. Congratulations to Gunther and the lucky hunters. We had some
bad luck with cancellations for rifle hunts but the guys that came
all saw the biggest bucks of their life and tagged out. 
I
want to thank my Whitetail partner Gunther and soon to be wife Zabrina
for covering for me this year. As I was on a once and a lifetime
Archery Bighorn sheep hunt the last 10 days of November. I ended
up doing this hunt by myself and on day eight in -25 Celsius weather.
On the top of Windy Ridge I shot a 174 full curl ram, he would have
scored 3 inches better but he took a nasty 300 yard tumble over
a cliff. This was the highlight of my Archery career and the end
of a great season. 