Shug Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Just finished the first leg of my spring bear hunting. I started in Saskatchewan and now I’m sitting in the Saskatoon airport with 3 hours before takeoff so I thought I share my short 2 day hunt. I hunted with Brian Macdonald of Lone Wolf bear camps. His camp is on Carswell lake in wayyyyyyyyyyy Northern Saskatchewan… google it to see how re friggn remote it is. It’s a 11 plus hour drive from Saskatoon.. The last 150 miles on gravel road. Imagine a gravel rd almost as long as The GS parkway with nothing but wilderness all around… I can’t even begin to guess how many bears were spotted eating grass on the side of the road… but dozens for sure including this one… he wasn’t the biggest but he was pretty… Jcol6268, Merkel, Batsto and 20 others 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotJust22s Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 where are the after pics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 To give an idea of the distance… And again camp is where the road ends if you want to go further you’ll get wet Rusty, thefirstndsecond, BowhunterNJ and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 (edited) Because of the remoteness the bears rarely see man except during bear season.. and it show from their attitude.. The bigger bears can be wary but the smaller ones need to be hit with a stick at times… Edited June 3, 2022 by Shug Swamprat, Haskell_Hunter, DonW and 11 others 12 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 I guess he forgot I was 10 feet behind him… Rusty, BowhunterNJ, LPJR and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 Camp is pretty amazing considering it’s location… several large comfortable cabins hot showers a kitchen area… great meals!! Bears wander right through camp regularly as do moose wolverines and wolves.. my first night I was 1/2 asleep and jarred by metal clanging. The next morning we found a bear was snooping around the vehicles.. The sun sets late this high up and sets with beauty Merkel, Buck154, Haskell_Hunter and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 With all the bears I’ve taken I have never shot a color phase bear I was hoping to change that this week. My first sit was on a bait right on a river 6 bears came in including 2 p and y bears that I elected to pass… The stands are low 8-10 feet high which is so cool when a bear stands up near ya.. I actually took a pee on this one after he tried a couple times to join me… Merkel, Haskell_Hunter, Swamprat and 5 others 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 No bears taken the first night but lots were passed. The next day I hunted a beautiful bait site on the lake 3 miles from camp. As we pulled the boat up we spotted a gorgeous blonde bear but didn’t see it long enough to size it up… I got in the stand and and bears poured out of the bush..I stopped counting at 9 and I sure a few other different one came and left. Waiting on the blonde I was tempted when this guy came in and walked around for 40 minutes or so…any size guesses? Shoot don’t shoot? He was scared up bad from fighting Haskell_Hunter, LPJR, Rusty and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmc02 Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Sounds like a place I could live....away from idiots Rumrunner69, Shug, Dominant buck and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 Thought was gonna have to shoot a smaller one than I wanted when he tried to carry my Leicas off..a few times I yelled at him. my binoculars have a tooth indentation now… Rjtfd, Jcol6268, LPJR and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Good luck, hope you get the color phase you're after Shug 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Good luck with the rest of your trip Shug! Shug 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 (edited) So the blonde didn’t show up and the “big” one left an hour before dark I started kicking myself.. bird in the hand 2 in the bush thing . I just finished peeing and looked over my shoulder towards the bait to see the scar faced boar walking back in…at 15 yards he turned broadside and took a FMJ in the right place… he made it further than he should have I believe because the arrow hit the front leg after it exited the chest… I gathered my gear wheel I heard the death moan and walked 90 yards to find him easily… Not a colored bear but too good to pass up a second time especially since a surgery 3 years ago and Covid the last 2 years kept me from bear hunting in Canada.. Lets hope a good colored bear walks in I. Manitoba.. this bear was a fighter with lots of scars as well as fresh wounds.. He was a solid 350/375# boar with a 19+ skull and he was 6’ from nose to base of tail lying dead… not that squared silly stuff… here’s a couple more bears taken also Edited June 11, 2022 by Shug TroutandBucks, hammer4reel, thefirstndsecond and 15 others 11 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpr1921 Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Congratulations. Shug 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamprat Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Good stuff. Congrats Shug 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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