Summary of this years Spring Bear Hunt

We just had one spring bear hunter, as it turned out it was probably a good thing. We had just gone through one of the worst winters in years, huge snow pack and hard wind storms. Which made for a lack of access and alot of road clearing. We had sold our Argo and went with a Ranger with a track kit and found it actually handled better in the snow. Two weeks before the hunter came in we weren't sure we could even get to our best spots. We took a scouting run and found ourselves fighting ten foot snow drifts. The meadows and clearcuts were still covered with snow, the next week we got hot weather 90-100 degrees, the snow came off and the spring grasses came up. We were scheduled to hunt the last week of May which is our last week of season, and as luck would have it the weather changed again. It started raining and snowing with lots of fog. The high country was totally socked in, we couldn't see across the canyon for three days. The first day the weather cleared we saw five bear, the next day our hunter killed a jet black boar with almost a 20" skull.

Our preseason scouting for blacktail deer is indicating a very good upcoming season. We just got updated information from Don Huffman and the big blacktail he took last year officially scored 160 7/8 non-typical which he informed us makes it number 1 in SCI non-typical.

Things are looking good for our Mexican mule deer hunts as the summer storms have brought the rain we need for the December/January hunts to be good. We only have one opening left available for these hunts.

Check out our 2008 Spring Bear hunt photos below. Click on picture for more details