Bear Season Pics

[kootenayelkslayer]

I figured I'd post up some pictures from my bear season. Some bears from the southern interior, some from the central interior. Sightings were a bit slow this year and lots of the bears were really thin, especially up north here. The hides were awesome this year though! Didn't get any really big bears, but most were hovering around the 6 1/2 foot range. Anyway, enjoy. Sorry for all the blank expressions.



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[kootenayelkslayer]

A few more....

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[ThinAir]

Very nice bears. It was a slow spring .... not as many to be found.

[todbartell]

nice bears Mike

[Rackmastr]

Some awesome thumper bears there!!!

[srupp]

Some very nice bears..well done....

cheers
Steven

[demlake]

Thanks for the pics.

Looks good.

[geno]

i think your only allowed 2 bears per year in bc?

[Piperdown]

Some nice pumpkin heads good job :)

[Jetboater]

i think your only allowed 2 bears per year in bc?
please tell me your not serious......

[Call of the Wild]

Good job and they do have nice coat. Since I don't know much about BC bears yet, I'm new BC resident/hunter, roughly what percentage of the bear population are color phase? I'm assuming depending on the area the ratio will vary, just for knowledge let say central interior and the peace area.

[fester]

awesome pics, right on!!!

[~T-BONE~]

Great pictures there dude!!

[srupp]

hmmm central/outhern interior 20% or less are colored...one area I hunt 40 % are colored phase..

Steven

[~T-BONE~]

Seems to be more colored bears around the last few years where I hunt and guided. My sightings guiding turned up over 50% color phase... Only one sow (black) seen with cubs matching her color.

[kootenayelkslayer]

i think your only allowed 2 bears per year in bc?

Ha thanks for the heads up.


Good job and they do have nice coat. Since I don't know much about BC bears yet, I'm new BC resident/hunter, roughly what percentage of the bear population are color phase? I'm assuming depending on the area the ratio will vary, just for knowledge let say central interior and the peace area.

Like Srupp said, I think it really depends on the area. It may even may vary significantly in small neighbouring areas. Where I spend a lot of time hiking around in the Kootenays I would almost guess that around 40% of the bears (the ones I see) are colour phase. Farther up north I tend to see less coloured bears, closer to 10-20% I would say. That's just based on my observations though!

[kootenayelkslayer]

Some awesome thumper bears there!!!

Hey Rackmastr, your inbox is full!

[Call of the Wild]

Thanks for the quick answer, it's almost similar to northern Alberta. Roughly 10-20% are color phase, my experience while hunting and using trail cameras and also F&W officer information, also I'm not going to say all but the majority of outfitter in northern Alberta advertise 30-40% of their harvest is color phase but in reality it's not that high, marketing to increase sales.

The same observation for the Peace River Alberta area, some places not many color phase are present and half and hour away more color phase are seen. Just a question to find what you want and enjoy the hunt.

[BCBear]

i think your only allowed 2 bears per year in bc?


please tell me your not serious......

and you have to use the same gun!!!!

Nice bruins...I mean bears!

[nolimits]

Some nice bears here. Thanks for posting pics.

[boothcreek]

I am sooo jealous. Nice Bears! I Have been hiking thru the bush daily for several weeks now and haven't seen a single bear yet...... found some huge griz tracks(by myself on foot I was happy not to have met that critter in the flesh).
Going to the west koots this weekend to see if I can get a bear(or at least see one).
All these pics on the forum here are making me soooooo Jealous!!! lol

[dana]

Congrats on a great season! Looks like some good 'uns in that bunch.

[kwasky]

Beauty bears! Way to go

[SKYLINE]

Congrats, looks like you were busy this spring!!! Who did you work for up north?

[BearSniper]

Great looking bears. Nice rugs there.

[NoLimit99]

This isn't a huge beast but here's the quick story.

My wife & I have been doing extensive reno's inside and out of our house and have been extremely busy & I haven't had any time to go out for a day hunt or even take a piss. I told my wife that im done with reno's for now if I cant take one day for a bear hunt and I have to get out and go for at least 1 attempt for a bear before the first open season is closed.

Despite not having any time because contractors and painters and materials to be ordered I said forget it for 1 day i'm heading out and I left the next day. I went to one of my local spots that I know i've seen some meat bears and that my chances would be decent I headed out at 5am and took my quad to just have a nice slow day all to my self. Man was that so needed.

Things started off good as I spotted a immy moose and some deer and alot of bear turds. I took my time and didn't care if I got some thing as it was nice to just get out and be free for the day and breath some nice fresh air (you all know what that's like) it's refreshing. Any who after checking a total of 4 spots I know of locally some having snow still my day was coming to an end as I was on my last open fsr.
I stopped for about 30mins to take a drink and a piss, I got back on my quad and went around the first bend and what do you know I spot a nice meat bear just chilling staring at me not a single care in the world so I got off my quad and studied it for a bit with my bino's just in case of cubs or if it was under age. All checked out so I aimed for behind the left shoulder let one off. It rolled down hill about 3 full rolls and didn't move so I know it was the money shot.

Here's the thing that ticked me off about this hunt. I just bought a mounted camera for my rifle with a remote control and this was it's first actual recorded hunt so when I got off my quad I pressed the record button and herd it start recording but because of the moment I didn't hear it beep and shut off because of low battery so I never caught it at all on my new cam. Oh well next time I guess. I used up all the battery life when I was spending the time recording the immy and the deer and other nice scenes.

Sorry for all the blabbering here's some pics. Like I said not totally huge but a nice meat bear with no rubs and a huge thick coat.

http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq243/nolimit99/IMAG0118.jpg

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Because it was such a freaking hot day I was worried about it spoiling as it took me a little to get it out of the bush by my self I had to find a way to get it cooled down quickly so here's what I came up with. It's called natures natural cooler. Look carefully.

http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq243/nolimit99/IMAG0119.jpg

http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq243/nolimit99/IMAG0121.jpg

[Allen50]

just wounder why your hiding your fase, case the wife sees it and you had said you were someplace else,, nice bears,,

[Boner]

Nice bears. All I have seen this year are two year old size(five footer) solid blacks. I haven't seen any sow/cub combos either. But I did see 2 grizzly sows with twin cubs one day on the highway.

[Bearen 09]

Great job Mike and there not to big not at all.....LOL

[moose2]

Great looking bears I was just wondering if anyone has mentioned that your only allowed 2 bears a year in BC lol
Mike

[hunter1947]

Well done on getting these bears ,congrats to all that where involved in the hunts..

[fireguy]

i think your only allowed 2 bears per year in bc?
please tell me your not serious......

I think geno is on to something, the guy holding the gun in each picture looks like the same guy in each one, he has the same faceial expression...

[bforce750]

i think your only allowed 2 bears per year in bc?
please tell me your not serious......

I think geno is on to something, the guy holding the gun in each picture looks like the same guy in each one, he has the same faceial expression...

Ah HA!!!! You are right!!!!! :roll: