Mountain Griz and a Double on Stone Rams 2011

[Wild Images]

So with some new info and a little reasearch we went chasin stones again with a grizz tag for backup. Arron and I took off Aug 30th and headed for Dease Lk with a flyin date of sept 2nd with Bruce and Terry at BC Yukon Air.
We had a great flight in and Terry joined us for the ride, after being dropped off we set up the wall tent and headed up the mountain with 8 days food in tow. The weather started to turn on us so we got into a sheltered spot and set up spike camp.
Aaron looked up on the ridge and there were sheep heading over the next ridge, 4 small rams but first sheep spotted. With camp set and a few hours of the day left we grabbed our guns and a spotting scope and climbed the ridge for a look around.
About two hours before dark Aaron looked up and a very nice collored griz had come over the top and was working and eating its way into the valley below us. Looking it over we made a run at it and with the help of a ground squirrel running the bear down the side hill it was all comming together.
A couple shots and the griz was ours, we had time for a couple pics then headed back up to the tent. We came in the next morning and skinned the bear out and packed all the way back to the lake in the pouring rain.
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[Derp]

dandy grizz!! congrats

[Tenacious Billy]

Awesome pics. Love those fall colours and the bear to boot!

[doubled]

Beauty bear. Can't wait to get one big enough for my floor.

[snareman1234]

Lets see the SHEEEEP!!! Nice Griz!

[d6dan]

Solid Griz. Good pics Ken!. Thanks for sharing...

[Caveman]

Awesome pics. Love those fall colours and the bear to boot!

My thought exactly. Love those colours!

[whitetailsheds]

Very nice grizz field shot that first one is, Ken....congrats on that bear Aaron!

[Wild Images]

Next morning we resalted the bear and hung it in the wall tent, repacked with ten days food and climbed up that damn mountain again. This time we went over the top and set up in a draw on the other side.
A few rams were seen over the next few days one being to close to call so he and his buddies walked.
After hiking to the other end of the range one morning we decieded to concentrate on the area west of our spike camp. While making dinner we noticed a few sheep comming out of the trees milles from the tent,
too far to see what they were but we kept watching. After a while we noticed them butting heads and got glimpse of horn.
Next morning we got up and checked to see if they were still around and we could see them in the trees, so a closer look was in order and off we went. As we got closer eleven rams and two ewes were working the hill
and feeding along. there was a deep valley with a creek separating us and with them moving all we could do was watch. The sheep worked thier way into a basin with a big scree slide and the two biggest rams climbed high on the
slde and bedded. We looked at each other and decieded this was our chance but we would have to work way up the valley, cross the creek, climb the mountain and come in from above as the other rams all bedded below.
A long time and a lot of sweat later found us above the rams whom were bedded six feet apart when we looked over. Aaron ranged it at 500 yds and the rams were facing us so up we went, when we looked over again it was 400yds
and straight down, not a shot either of us was willing to take so back over the hill and down the other side. This time we came over 300 yds away and on a bit better angle, this was as good as it was going to get so we set up.
I had a clear shot so I took the first one and hit the ram perfectly, he jumped up took two steps and folded, the second ram jumped up confused and ran up hill looking around and a shot rang out and hit him hard, anouther shot hit him
and the fog rolled in so we couldn't see a thing.
We went back to our packs and came off the hill and around the front to climb up to the rams ( I hate boulder patches !!! ) When we got there this is what we found
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[Ruger4]

Beautiful animals guys , well done !!

[bayou]

Congrats beautiful grizzly and sheep, you sure seem to get some rams with great colours to the capes.
Great photos as well some amazing colours up there at that time of year.

[d6dan]

Nice Rams!.:-D:-D

[Wild Images]

By the time we caped and boned the rams and got all packed up it was 5:30 pm and a long walk out was ahead, the weather had gone for real shit and was not looking like a good time, biggest thing was to get back to our own mountain before dark set in. To make a long ugly story short we got back to the tent at 11:30 pm and we as cold and as tired as humanly possible . We knew on the way out the it was not an option to stay out and we had to make the tent or tommorrow probably wasn't going to come.
We both have a lot of experience in the bush and had to use it all on this nite, it was the deepest either of us has had to dig to get it done and I hope that I will never have a harder day of hunting again.
I would like to thank Arron for an epic hunt for sure !

Thanks to Bruce and Terry and Bryan from Harbour Air for comming in to get us out after Bruce was down

Ken

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[fester]

great photos gotta love the mountains

[moose2]

Great job guys you got three great animals there., and it sounds like they were very deserved. Hunting the mountains can throw alot of challenges at you and from your story it sounds like this one did. I am looking forward to seeing the mounts when there done Ken what were Aarons plans for the bear.
Mike

[BCrams]

Great double and beautiful capes to boot!!

[pg83]

fantastic!!!!! congrats to you guys! thanks for the story and the beautiful pictures!

[Farmer]

Good Job and great pictures! I really like the dark coloured ram. Not that there is anything wrong with the horns on the lighter coloured ram. They are both awesome trophies.

[Call of the Wild]

That's just awesome!! A nice looking grizzly and two beautiful sheep, Pretty cool one ram is dark color and the other very light. Good job guys.

[325]

Great photos. What a hunt!

[Jagermeister]

Wow, and to think that I just about made a similar trip. Now I am really sorrowful for Bruce's misfortune.
Thanks for sharing your trip with us and congratulations on a successful hunt.

[Hiker]

Wow! Great job gentlemen!

[olharley guy]

Howdy, everything seemed to be just in the right place at the right time for you two - couldn't really get any better-maybe weather Ha! Congratulations on a great hunt with some beauty animals. Later

[porcupine]

Awesome pics. Love those fall colours and the bear to boot!

Couldn't agreee more! Beauty rams too! That's a great hunt!

[25tikka]

Great story and pictures guys. Was nice to meet you up there. Beautiful place and great animals.

[silvertipp]

Great story & pics it must be nice to have a hunting partner thjats a taxidermist

[ydouask]

Great story and excellent results. Your story and pictures have me sitting here grinning and remembering... ah, yes, those wonderful sheep hunts ! Thanks for sharing Ken.

[Mik]

Great looking area, such vivid colors. Congrats on both sheep and the Grizz. How big was the Grizz?

[dana]

Beautiful animals in beautiful country. A dream hunt for sure. Congrats!

[Caveman]

It just gets better and better! Great job on the double header. A couple beauty rams and a damn nice grizz

[proguide66]

Great work boys! Looking at that sky and reading the hike and seeing a double made my back and legs twinge..ouch! good work men!, sleepin bag and coffee must have felt unreal! Did one of those nights with sideways rain and a ram on back till 4 am once..NEVER AGAIN! Hope you had a cold beer in the creek!
Sure a bunch of great rams hittin it this year!

[spear]

UNREAL, thanks for posting, two beauty rams back to back!

[srupp]

truly amazing..well done....hmmmm now to find a taxidermist for 3 such wonderful animals..hmmmmmmm lol

you guys hit that one out of the park....grand slam...

steven

[quadrakid]

Thanks for sharing your pics and story,dream hunt.

[Duk Dog]

Wow if that isn't a dream hunt right there I don't know what is. Congrats to you guys.

[gbear]

Way to go Ken! Congrats on the successful hunt

[kayjayess]

Absolutely magnificent. Very nice double and that grizz is a beautiful looking specimen. Way to go boys!

[M.Dean]

What an incredible Trip. Excellent Pic's, great story! Congrats to the both of you's!!!

[Tikka270wsm]

Friggun awesome story and pics! You guy's sure had to work hard for it but that would be a hunt of a lifetime. Congrats!

[guest]

Terrific pic's and sounds like a great hunt !

Congrats all round. !


CT

[6 K]

Wow! Looks like you guys DID have a good hunt!:-D
Damb, I think my dream ram just bought it.
That darker one is no slouch eather.
What did they measure?
Well done.

[bruin]

That's fantastic, congrats guys!

[Freshtracks]

Another great shared hunt and awesome pics. The rams and grizz ... well how do you top it? I'm drooling over that dark ram.
Congrats gentlemen on hunts that happen only so few.

[toyordie]

congrats on the rams and that monster grizz, Nice area to boot

[A killer]

Great job on the story, Ken. Also a huge thanks for a wicked hunt with many more to come!!!! Always a pleasure hunting with QUAD- zilla!!!!!
Oh..... and fellow hunters......It is AWESOME hunting with a taxidermist!!!!! If you can find one it is a great addition to your hunting gear. LOL
Many thanks for all the posts. Best of the season to all!!

[GRIZZEZE]

congrats guys, nice rams and grizz
me thinks that we will be seeing some of those animals in another thread in a few months time when the mounts are done, looking forward to it.

[Bighorn hunter]

Congrats Ken and Aaron on a epic hunt! And thank you Ken for taking the time to share it all with us in story and unbelievable pics!!

Cheers
BH

[BiG Boar]

Wow, just incredible Ken! What a hunt! Good thing you got pics, because that is really Unbelievable! I am in awe....

[Rackmastr]

What an awesome hunt!! Three amazing trophies and sounds like it was a very memorable hunt with some tough work and perseverance with the weather. Congrats!

[MB_Boy]

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[The Hermit]

Congrats on what will have been a hunt to remember for sure. I must have missed something, what happened to Bruce?

[DDD]

Well done indeed. Thanks for posting.

[markt308]

nice pics. beautiful bear. congrats on a successful hunt of a lifetime

[mpotzold]

Congrats!
Another good read! The first photo is postcard material!

[.300 R.U.M. Grizzly]

Beauty Grizz!!!

[trigger]

Awesome grizz. Awesome sheep. Great story. Thanks for sharing.

[mark]

A hunt just doesnt get any better, will remember that one forever! Congrads guys! Im also wondering what happened to bruce??

[Wild Images]

Bruce Holed his floats getting pushed onto the beach by the wind, They had it all under control when we got picked up
Those guys take good care of each other and the hunters up there.

[yiorgo3]

Great job Ken!

[Hammerhead]

2 plus 1 of possibly the most coveted animals in BC in 1 trip makes for one hell of an adventure. Great job on the story and pictures. Congrats guys
HH

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Great to finally read the story to go along with those great pics you sent!!
Man I sure miss hunting in the fall with those colors(even though it's technically still summer).

Congrats on two beauty rams and a solid grizz!! Well done!

SSS

[BCbillies]

Beautiful animals . . . thanks for the write-up and photos!

Once again you guys get it done.

[Rubberfist]

Awesome hunt! Can't ask for more than a grizz and a Stone's double header...well, except meby 12 glacier chilled beer waiting in the creek.

[ovis40]

Congrats....great critters and the best pictures I've seen in a long time!!!!!!!!

[stonefever_14]

really nice rams congrats guys nice grizzly as well

[ianwuzhere]

wow- beautiful animals- good job guys- hard work pays off sometimes! thanx for posting!!!

[Rattler]

Nice work Ken!

[scottwh]

What beautiful country you were in to take 3 beauty animals! Congrats. The colors of the sheep capes is cool!

[Allen50]

wow how did you pick such a nice back ground for the bear pic, cool, and great sheep pic,lots of work but something to remember,, thanks for letting us see the pic,,

[rifleman]

awesome job you guys... very nice animals... congrats

[brian dobson]

congrats! looks like you had a great hunt

[kennyj]

Way to go guys. A couple of beautiful rams, and an awesome griz. Great photos.
kenny

[HUNTERTREV]

awsome!!!!

[Deer_Slayer]

congrats on a great hunt and beautiful animals taken

[Knute]

Awesome hunt, story and pics.

A hunt the two of you won't soon forget!

Love those pics, great background and outstanding animals.

[hunter1947]

Fantastic animals that you and your buds got as for the whole right up on the story ,the Griz looks to be a decent one this bear will look nice on the wall or wall as for your stone sheep ,congrats to you and your partners..