mtbraun
Lil-Rokslider
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- Jul 6, 2023
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Thanks for mtwarden for prodding me to give a hunt report. Rewinding a couple years, I had spoken to a number of outfitters to discuss an interior grizzly hunt. I ultimately booked with Tyrrell's as I really liked our conversations, he has multiple aircraft, and even let me tailor the hunt a bit. I wanted a backpack style hunt, and he gladly connected me with one of his sheep guides. We spoke a number of times leading up to the hunt, and Britton (my guide) gave me a lot of tips for gear on this style of hunt.
A couple weeks out from the hunt date, we decided to push the dates back 10 days because of the heavy snow fall and late spring, which ultimately would have led to a tough hunt. Even so, I picked up a set of snow shoes in the event we'd be needing them. This may seem minor, but a slight schedule adjustment speaks to Tyrrell's really wanting me to have a good hunt experience.
We get flown out to the bush and the hunt begins. Britton, our packer Tucker and myself set out with packs. The first day ended up being the nicest weather of the entire trip. We set up camp and starting glassing. We moved camp a couple times over the course of 4 days, with the weather mostly being wind, snow, cold, rain, hail, lightning, and anything else mother nature felt like throwing at us. At least during that time the mosquitoes weren't bad. The morning of day 4 started out with heavy fog. We were camped up a bit higher as a result of the prior day's weather. The fog lifted late morning and we broke camp and moved a small distance to glass a new valley. I literally sat down, looked to my left, and saw the bear I ultimately shot. We put a 1/2 mile stalk to about 125 yards where I took the bear with my 300 PRC. It was exactly the color I was looking for, and was additionally blessed with nice claws.
We spend a day or so packing the hide, fleshing, and waiting for a pack raft air drop. Correct, Luke did a food drop and three pack rafts for us, as part of the hunt was going to involve rafting out about 25 miles to the haul road. So we got the boats all set up and took off. I was pretty nervous having never been in one before, but all was well. The first day we rafted about 10 miles and set up camp to look for black bear. We stayed at this camp for a couple days and decided to head the rest of the way out. That rafting trip was about 15 miles where we were picked up.
All together I cannot speak highly enough of Tyrrell's, his team and how he does business. Great guy and I would highly recommend.
A couple weeks out from the hunt date, we decided to push the dates back 10 days because of the heavy snow fall and late spring, which ultimately would have led to a tough hunt. Even so, I picked up a set of snow shoes in the event we'd be needing them. This may seem minor, but a slight schedule adjustment speaks to Tyrrell's really wanting me to have a good hunt experience.
We get flown out to the bush and the hunt begins. Britton, our packer Tucker and myself set out with packs. The first day ended up being the nicest weather of the entire trip. We set up camp and starting glassing. We moved camp a couple times over the course of 4 days, with the weather mostly being wind, snow, cold, rain, hail, lightning, and anything else mother nature felt like throwing at us. At least during that time the mosquitoes weren't bad. The morning of day 4 started out with heavy fog. We were camped up a bit higher as a result of the prior day's weather. The fog lifted late morning and we broke camp and moved a small distance to glass a new valley. I literally sat down, looked to my left, and saw the bear I ultimately shot. We put a 1/2 mile stalk to about 125 yards where I took the bear with my 300 PRC. It was exactly the color I was looking for, and was additionally blessed with nice claws.
We spend a day or so packing the hide, fleshing, and waiting for a pack raft air drop. Correct, Luke did a food drop and three pack rafts for us, as part of the hunt was going to involve rafting out about 25 miles to the haul road. So we got the boats all set up and took off. I was pretty nervous having never been in one before, but all was well. The first day we rafted about 10 miles and set up camp to look for black bear. We stayed at this camp for a couple days and decided to head the rest of the way out. That rafting trip was about 15 miles where we were picked up.
All together I cannot speak highly enough of Tyrrell's, his team and how he does business. Great guy and I would highly recommend.
