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I call all day. They do bed down in the heat, but if you are calling into rugged canyons or thickets with bedding areas and are right on top of them, they might just come on out! Or occasionally they may decide to take a drink in the middle of a hot day and you can entice them to the call if they are already on the move.

Regan, great bull and sweet butchering photos! If we are telling Regan stories, I met him a few years back as we both had cameras on the same water source. We exchanged data and pics throughout the season...it was a deer for bear picture exchange! Like Out2hunt said, a very nice guy willing to share and lend a hand. How much meat did you get from your bull?

Any idea on the skull size of that grizzly? For common FYI, non-residents of Alaska can only hunt grizzly with a registered guide or with a resident blood relative. Brian and Chad are lucky guys. I wish I had a brother who lived in Alaska!

I actually thought this was going to be a post filled with bear scat picrures! Wheww! I do remember some of those bears from your earlier posts. Awesome color phases! Picture 1 is a nice mature bear, and your May blonde is absolutely gorgeous. That said, pic 2 is an even larger blonde, and pic 3 is a chocolate bear with great hair length. Your last pic is also a nice chocolate. You could be extremely proud of harvesting any of those bears. In fact, I would be honored to skin either of those chocolates or blondes for you! I hope you actually hunt specifically for one of those bears this fall.

I can't see what the surrounding area is like, but oak and locust saplings tend to attract bear.

Nice job sneaking up on a cat! Are you having a rug made from the pelt?

Tomorrow I am finally going back to pull my bear cams out of 3c. There was a dead elk fawn in a water tank that I put a camera on. It will be interesting to see what might have come over to taste it! Will update with any pictures tomorrow. I will also call two or three stands and see if any lions are around.

Great sales pitch! Adam can also cook and makes a mean beef stew. I would bring him along if I had a tag! What is the current price for a SC bear tag anyways?

I think I will switch out to FMJ rounds, which hopefully would suffice on dangerous predators with thinner hides as well.

That is nice to know, as I carry a .40 caliber Glock and 13 hollow point rounds when I bear hunt! Another solution is to buy an OTC bear tag if your deer hunting unit overlaps with an open bear unit.

Can't believe you snapped a photo of the raptor with a fish in its talons! That is calendar material.

All I made were girls. I have a 21 year old and nearly 3 year old twins. They have brought me insurmountable joy. You will learn what it means to be an over-protective father or what it is like to be wrapped around a little finger or to experience the phenomenon of daddy's girl. It is all I have known, and it is awesome. Congratulations!

Very cute cubs. The bear in your avatar is a beast! Did you harvest him?

If you get bored sitting water, plan on calling about a dozen rugged canyons in a day. Electronic callers are allowed, but I learned to call on hand calls, so I have stuck with what has worked for me. I too have had more bear responses in the latter half of the day, but it is like a 60 to 40 split, so make sure to be out before dawn as well. Be patient and be willing to commit a solid hour or more on a stand if you have fresh sign nearby.

Big disappointment. My cheap Wildview camera on the dead fawn had no pictures of anything eating it, yet the body was gone when I arrived. Called in two deer and a coyote, no lions or bears. There were TONS of people camped all over the 300 Road and they were racing their ORV everywhere. Only called one stand that was free of their noise. However, it was still fun hiking around with a fellow CWT member and sighting in my bow with a new d-loop and mechanical release.

I was in a groundblind I built off a water tank in 22N last year for spring archery bear. It was 1.5 miles off the road and did have a rugged old two-track road that led to it. I sat that water beginning at 4 am. Finally, around 7 pm, I heard something slowly and carefully coming in. About 5 minutes later, I began to hear a far off rumble that ended 10 minutes later with a hunter on his quad circling the tank twice at the water's edge looking for bear tracks. I then popped out of my brush-made blind and shocked him severely with my presence. He apologized for ruining my hunt and mentioned that he saw my jeep parked off the road, but he couldn't imagine that anyone would have hiked in that far to hunt. He drove off and actually waited for me by my Jeep to apologize again when I finally hiked out around 9 pm. We exchanged hunting suggestions and parted sith pleasanties.

I love the homemade half barrel. How often do you need to refill it? If cattle find it, it will be emptied in a day! Nice colored bear.

+1 I would also love to read a play by play description of your awesome experience! Write it up!

+1 on the recipie. Looks it was squirted out of a jerky gun.

Looks like a sow with her one to two year old cub.

Here is a simple crock pot recipie for bear stew: 5 pounds of fat-trimmed meat, cube cut Marinate meat 48 hours in the fridge: 4 cups water 1/4 cup worchestershire sauce 1/4 cup soy sauce 1 Tbsp liquid smoke 1 tsp onion powder 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp black pepper *1 tsp chilli powder *1 tsp cayenne peppe (* = these last two ingredients add a spicy kick to the marinade, and are optional) After 48 hours of marinating meat cubes, drain off solution and place meat in crock pot. Add 1 sweet onion (sliced), 1 pound of peeled baby carrots, 1 celery clump (chopped), 6 potatoes (cubed), and 1/2 cup water to crock pot. Cook stew in crock pot for 10 hours on high setting. Turn off crock, let stand 20 minutes, and enjoy!!

Very nice color. Need to run a brush through its fur to get that blonde hair shining! Are those human tracks in the horizontal swath of sand running parallel to the bear's trajectory?

Juniper and Manzanita Berry Crunch! One of my personal favorites, which can only be topped by the Oak Nut Manzanita Berry Log which keeps the integrity of its shape longer. Splendid! The diameter of the intact logs near the juniper trunk look to be around 2 inches, so I would venture 200 pounds (+/- 50 pounds). I use the estimate of 100 pounds body weight per inch of stool diameter (+ or - 50 pounds) for non-constipated healthy bears utilizing natural food sources.

We love to make bear machaca, bear tamales, and tacos de oso negro. Another favorite is to make a BBQ out of it in a "twice-pulled pork" manner of cooking.

Nice footage. Sow must have winded you or figured out something was amiss, as after she turned to leave, she was determined in her exit. Notice that she turned and exited out the way she approached. Cool.