| From: Jarhead
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| Date: 02-Jun-18 |
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Well... I got it done. My transition to trad is far from complete but I took a giant step this week. I was able to get it done on a nice Alberta boar. I didn't make a great shot... but it was good enough.
My 50# Centaur and VPA's were bad medicine. We had a great hunt - lots of bears... LOTS of bears. My brother in law saw a lynx and I saw a wolf.
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| From: lost run
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| Date: 02-Jun-18 |
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Congratts, great bear.
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| From: WildernessBuck
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| Date: 02-Jun-18 |
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Big congrats there bud! I remember your post before you left and was actually thinking about it the other day and wondering how you did.That sounds like an awesome time in Alberta.Nice job! David
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| From: Barber
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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That’s awesome !
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| From: M60gunner
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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Well done! Nice bear
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| From: Deno
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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Nice job, great pic!! You're on your way.
Deno
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| From: Wapiti - - M. S.
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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Looks like you had a good time in Alberta,congratulations.
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| From: ga bowhunter
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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nice bear what did it weigh? looks huge
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| From: GUTPILE PA
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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That is way to cool!!
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| From: Skeets
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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Excellent! Looks like a nice big bear to me!
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| From: Zepnut
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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Way to go.
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| From: Pa Steve
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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Congratulations on a beautiful boar. Hope you saved the swizzle stick as a reminder of your adventure. Like Riverwolf said some more pics and info would be great. What outfitter? Some get you real close to the action. Great job on your first trad kill.
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| From: 4FINGER
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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Nice! Congrats...4finger
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| From: Buzz
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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Congrats.
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| From: Basinboy
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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That’s a Dandy Congrats!
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| From: Greyfox
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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Thanks for sharing. Kenny
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| From: beemann
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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good work
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| From: Cabingirl
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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Congrats,great bear.
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| From: bearfootin
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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Great job, congrats.
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| From: tonto59
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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Congrats!
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| From: Bowguy
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| Date: 03-Jun-18 |
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Nice!! I hunted bear all over but prefer Alberta the best. Big bears and lots of em
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| From: Jarhead
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| Date: 04-Jun-18 |
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Since there were questions..
The outfitter we used was North Alberta Outfitters. A guy named Troy Foster runs it. There's a couple of knockoff outfitters with similar names. We were North of Slave Lake - it's wild as shit up there. We were about 30 minutes from a small town that you could go get a room for cheap and shower/wash if you wanted. Some of us did that every two days... some of the guys just stayed in camp the whole time. There's spotty internet service so... most mornings we'd drive up the road a few miles to get cell service and do some work stuff... camp is a small tent city. Food was great. We ate at 0800, 1400 and 2300.
It would be a great place for a "beginner bear hunt" or "father son" type thing. The shots are close (20 yds or less if you want) and the bears are not hunted hard... so they aren't all that wary. The main thing is "don't shoot the first bear you see." That of course didn't apply to my best friend who did indeed kill the very first bear he saw. It turned out to be the biggest bear they'd ever killed... estimated just shy of 8' and 450 pounds... spring bear. There's a ton of phase bears. In fact the first three bears I saw were chocolate bears. I asked my guide - "do you guys have black bears up here?" : )
There were gun hunters in camp... but if you're a hunter at all you wouldn't want to hunt with anything but your bow. I ended up inviting 5 of my close buddies for the trip... we all got a bear... two of my buddies got 2. It's a two tag area... having two tags takes the pressure off.
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| From: Jarhead
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| Date: 04-Jun-18 |
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not sure what's going on with my pics...
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| From: Jarhead
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| Date: 04-Jun-18 |
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last try
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| From: Jarhead
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| Date: 04-Jun-18 |
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Well... all I can say is... when we took the picture... he wasn't floating upside down.
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| From: Gun
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| Date: 04-Jun-18 |
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Congrats on your Bear. We do have a lot of them
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| From: Jarhead
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| Date: 05-Jun-18 |
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Riverwolf FTW!!!!!
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