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I'm not sure, but 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.760 we are at the global headquarters of Bear Hunting Magazine. 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.880 Me and my good buddy Colby Moorehead just got back 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:45.120 from the wilds of Northern Manitoba. We got back two 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:50.000 days ago, so we're just now recovering from an epic 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.680 road trip and an empic hunt. So what we're gonna 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.320 talk about in this podcast is we're gonna We're gonna 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.880 talk about our hunt. We're gonna detail out this is 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.040 ciffics of what happened. We're not holding anything back. We're 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.680 gonna share it all, spill all our guts here. But 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:10.239 we're also gonna talk about some specific topics inside of 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:14.440 the hunt that were relevant, like shop placement because Mr 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:18.480 Moorehead made a very unique shot that turned out great 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.679 and I think we can all learn something from it. Right, 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:27.720 And uh, we're gonna talk about fall bear hunting. Way 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.960 up north, most Canadian bear hunting is done in the spring, 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.960 and there's some super benefits to hunting in the fall. 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.000 I've only bear hunted in Canada in the fall one 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.200 other time, So we're gonna talk about kind of the 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.679 differences between spring and fall bear hunting. We're gonna talk 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:47.000 about our friend Corey Grant and all trained bear hunts 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.440 at Bear Hunting Magazine. A big part of what we 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.880 do is represent outfitters bear hunting outfitters. A lot of 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.800 them are from Canada, and so Corey Grant is a 0:02:55.840 --> 0:03:00.880 longtime Bear Hunting Magazine advertiser. He uh, he has been 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:05.120 an outfitter since nineteen. The former owner of Bear Hunting 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.720 Magazine hunted with Corey Grant back in the mid two 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:09.880 thousand's and killed the Boone and Crocket bear with him, 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.760 and so the magazine has a lot of history with Corey. 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:14.919 This is the first time that I've hunted with Corey, 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.320 first time that Colby hunt it with Corey, and we 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.280 we had a good hunt with him, We really did. 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:27.160 We will also spill the spill the beans about how 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:32.200 my hunt went, which I can't I cannot tell yet exactly. 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:36.760 I can't tell the people yet what happened. But we 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:41.200 partook in some world class walleye fishing um which was 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.600 a new thing for me. I fished quite a bit 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.800 up in northern Canada, but usually we're in big pike waters, 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.560 but we were in a tremendous while I like, and 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.600 then we'll close out this episode by talking about the 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.920 road trip home and Colby and I like, a couple 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.680 of bandits from the South were able to evade the 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:07.160 law on three different traffic stops. And we've got a 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.600 routine that we think will help all bear hunters and 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:13.600 outdoorsmen in general be able to when they fight the 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:20.279 law to win. It's about documentation, documentation and overwhelming them 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:25.240 with information, lots of movement. No, So I want to 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:29.440 introduce to you Kobe moorehead. Kobe is from Dallas. This 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.760 was your first bear hunt. Yeah, yeah, I've never seen 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:36.760 a bear before this. So you're you, dear? How did 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.360 your whole life you fish? You grew up, grew up hunting, 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:44.600 and then when did you want to start bearing? After 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.360 coming across Bearing magazine, just you know, following the content 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.640 and how much much fun it is and uh, you know, 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.080 it always seemed like people have a good time, very 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.800 relational um inside of the hunts, and so it just 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:01.200 seemed like a good group to to uh traverse with. 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:06.159 I guess yeah, you know, bear hunts and bear camp 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.360 in the far North is typically pretty laid back, as 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.400 opposed to a lot of other different kinds of hunts. 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.800 And this is something that we talked about all the time. Um, 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:19.560 you know, not that it's well, it's you're at a 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.880 bear camp and typically you're just hunting in the evenings 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.120 and so you have a lot of time during the 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:28.919 day to fish too, just relax. So a lot of 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.480 these northern hunts are kind of laid back as compared 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.679 to a hunt that you're waking up at the crack 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:35.400 of dawn and you're going out and hunt in the 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.200 mornings and evenings. So it's a different it's a different 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.479 style hunt which all of us like to really challenge 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.440 ourselves and kind of have that type too fun when 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:48.400 it comes to hunting, which is something that's fun later, 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.080 not necessarily fun at the moment, you know, which like 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.560 sometimes whitetail hunting and and lots of different types of 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.560 hunting can be and bear hunting can be as well, 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:01.280 but it's a little bit more laid back and just 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:06.560 a unique hunt. Bear hunting over bait in Canada is 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.640 you're gonna see a lot of game that's usually a given, 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.440 not always usually given. If you're going with a really 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.560 good outfit, are in a good region, you're gonna see bears. 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.840 You may not see bears every hunt, but for the 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.560 most part, you're probably gonna see game every hunt. And 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.880 one thing that I always say is that abated bear 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:32.279 hunt you get to interact with a big game animal 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.240 more intimately than any other type of honey. And when 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:40.160 I say intimately, I just mean close personal. You're you're 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.680 getting to see these animals for long periods of time. 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.680 Most types of hunting, like when you see your target animal, 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.680 I mean you are trying to take advantage of that opportunity. 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:50.920 You're trying to shoot that animal as quick as possible, 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.479 so you actually don't get to see that animal do 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.880 what it does when you're not there. That's the cool 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:01.440 thing about abated bear hunt is you are are first 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.600 of all, Usually the first couple of bears that come 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:05.920 in are not target bears, or maybe you sit for 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:10.119 days without seeing a target bear, and so the place 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.280 that you're sitting is the destination of where these animals 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.520 want to go. You know, you're at a bait site, 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.000 and so you get to watch these animals be bears. 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:24.400 So we saw bears fighting, we saw bears, lots of 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:30.480 bear vocalizations, we saw young bears. Now you you work 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.080 with me when I saw the sow with three cubs, 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.679 but you did see a different sow with three cubs, 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:37.960 didn't you. Well, we saw the three cubs without the 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:41.480 cell right right right, Yeah, So when you guys went 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.840 into Betas spot when I was not by myself, so 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:49.120 you got to see some pretty unique bear behavior. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.920 it was really cool. I think the vocalization has really 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.520 shocked me as far as like how how many they 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.960 actually have, So it was really cool, and you could 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.240 start to anticipate by the you know, the way they 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.560 would that they would move, and like what they would do, 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.880 like what they were about to do, and just to 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.960 try to learn like the characteristics of each individual bear 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.000 because they weren't alllways the same, you know. I think 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.400 that was the biggest takeaway is that there were no 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.160 two bears that acted identical, you know. Yeah, so it 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.400 was pretty cool to see those those individual characteristics that 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.320 they had. They all do have personalities, and there were 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:27.880 certain bears that were that are like aggressive and we 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.200 can say that not aggressive necessarily towards us, but like 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:34.320 we're just aggressive towards other bears, aggressive towards defending the bait, 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:39.240 aggressive towards well towards us. I mean could come over 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.320 to our ground blind or come over to where we 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.120 were and want to check us out. They were always 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.160 looking at us. And then there were other bears that 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.160 when they came in, they knew we were there, but 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.319 they never it was almost like they never gave us 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:55.400 the the the the honor of even looking at us 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.360 in the eye. I mean, it's kind of like they 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.760 knew were there, but they didn't they didn't really acknowledge 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.679 us the bear you killed. It's like that. I find 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:07.800 that the bigger, older, mature bears will often come in 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.640 and they might know you're there, which is a unique 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.240 thing for wilderness hunting, and when you talk about that, 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:17.679 he might know you're there, but it's like he's not 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:21.280 gonna acknowledge you really, Whereas some of these little bears 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.679 come in and they're just like bam, they're just looking 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.040 at you and they're circling you and they're wanting to 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.040 come up to you and mess with you and uh. 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:34.640 And then the lesser bears are usually pretty vocal, pretty active, 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:39.280 moving around a lot, wanting to fight and wolf and 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.600 pop their teeth and do all kinds of stuff. So 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:46.160 it's it's fun to see the different personalities of these bears. 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.000 And and going back to my point about big game hunting, 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.440 a lot of people don't understand hunting over bait, you know, 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:58.199 they feel like it's not exciting or whatever. But there's bit, 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.400 there's there's pros and contest everything do I mean, I 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:05.120 enjoy a spotting stock hunt that's just a just to 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.040 go out, find animal in their natural patterns and hunt them. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.160 I mean, that's a lot of what I do, and 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:15.040 it's some of my favorite hunting. But at the same time, 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.800 hunting animals over bait is also some of my favorite 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.120 hunting because number one, it's a conservation tool to be 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.400 able to manage bears in places where you would not 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.800 kill bears at all if you're just spotting stock hunting. 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.920 I mean, the Far North is absolutely is thick as 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.440 I mean, it's it's super thick. Can't see you're never 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:39.240 gonna find these bears. So so modern hunters like us 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:41.800 have to view it in the way it is is 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:45.160 that it's a conservation tool to be able to manage 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:50.760 bearing numbers in places where there are compromised populations of ungulates. Moose. 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:52.400 You know, Corey was talking to us. I mean, it's 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.080 a good moose area up there, and their bear hunting 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.679 plays a role in that. So baiting bears is part 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:03.240 of a conservation hunting strategy. Number two, it ain't easy. 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:07.960 I mean to kill a target bear over bait anywhere 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.640 is not easy. I mean, if you've never done it, 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:12.839 you think you just go out and put out bait 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:16.439 and go shoot an older age class mature mail bear 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:20.240 just you know, yogi bear walking up to a pilot donuts. 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:25.640 Not so. I mean it's not so. I mean if if, if, 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:27.920 if I could jump to well, I don't want to 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.520 give away my hunt, but let's just say I hunted 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:35.000 for an extended period of time and only encountered a 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:40.600 few target bears. Um. So, it's it's a it's a 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.960 it's a challenge, especially here in Arkansas, Oklahoma and places 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.400 in the lower forty eight than for whatever reason, to 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.800 get more pressure there. Bears are much more educated, they're 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.680 they're super difficult to kill. I mean, it's I almost 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.160 think you'd have a better chance spotting stocking and older 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.400 age class mail in some places and hunting them over 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.600 bait because they just get smart to you. So, so 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.360 I say that to say it is a challenge. So 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.520 and and then the other pro is that you just 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.920 get to see you get to see animals. You get 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:12.680 to see a lot of animals. It's a lot of fun. 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:19.360 And it's just interacting with a predator. For somebody that 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.200 is mainly used to hunting deer, it's like a whole 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.560 new experience. What was that like for you? I mean 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.640 just because this was the first the first bear you saw, 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:31.000 it was actually on the drive into bear Camp. Yeah, 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.640 we saw a bear across the road. Yeah, there's high five. Yeah. Yeah. 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.960 We were like, first bear, Yeah, first bear, and then 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.800 we saw another one that was cool on the drive. 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.160 On the drive end the bearcat. We saw two bears 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.600 cross from yeah, and then one swimming the lake from 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.800 camp camp was awesome. Yeah. But hunting predators, it's definitely 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:53.040 it's definitely different. It's like if they come close, I 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:55.960 might not be as comfortable. Like if a white tail 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.560 comes up a few yards away, it's like, that's just 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:02.320 a cool interaction. But yeah, if if there's one looking 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.040 at you from closest, like, how am I going to 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:10.880 deal with this? Yeah? What's my response in this situation. Yeah, 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.520 and it's it's unnerving for some people how a bear 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.319 responds to us. I mean, we are used to animals 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.559 when they see us in wild places, running wanting to 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:26.120 get the heck away, but in some bears act that way, 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.280 but over bait typically they don't. And so it's a 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.480 little unnerving, you know, to to see an animal that 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:37.520 just doesn't really care that you're there. And uh, but 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:43.280 it's just an interesting hunt, interesting hunt for sure. So 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.079 so we drove Kobe drove from Dallas to northwest Arkansas, 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:51.600 and then we drove together from northwest Arkansas to northern Manitoba, 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:56.240 toss in Manitoba, which is if so if Manitoba, if 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.160 you measure the length of Manitoba, we're about three quarters 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.680 of the way up. So we were probably three hundred 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:06.200 miles south of the none none of it territory, I 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.840 believe geographic lesson here. I'm pretty sure it's none of 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:14.240 it that's north of Manitoba. And uh, Corey was telling us, 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.920 and I actually didn't know this, but they're polar bears 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:21.920 on northern Manitoba. He was showing his pictures of polar bears, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:27.000 like like two hundred miles north where we're hunting, right, So, 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.720 I mean this is like way north. This is like 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:34.200 far northern part of part of Canada. And it was 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.760 about a twenty two hour road trip for us. I 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.920 have chosen to drive to Canada the last two years 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:45.880 when i've had the opportunity to um for several reasons. Namely, 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.000 I get to leave when I want to and come 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:50.880 home when I want to, and win carry a bunch 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:55.160 of gear um and it's and usually I'm going with somebody, 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.720 so it's been kind of convenient. People haven't understood that. 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.640 They're like, why don't you fly? Man? I hate flying. 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.440 Flying stresses me out. If I'm flying somewhere, like two 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.400 days before I fly, I'm just like, I find myself 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:10.880 stressed out. If I drive, it's kind of a little 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.200 more laid back. But so what do you think about 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.720 the drive? It was as bad as I expected. That mean, 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.480 it's a long I mean it's a day at least 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.640 if you're driving straight. Yeah, and uh no, I know 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:25.320 it wasn't bad. Uh, a lot of new stuff to see. 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.240 I had never been that far north, so just to 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.480 see the landscape change was was really cool. And uh, 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.480 you get into Canada, it's like a whole another world 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.560 because everything is so thick off the side of the road. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.800 So you go from you know, planes to just you're 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:43.200 in wilderness, and and the further you go back just like, man, 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.680 I wonder what old wildlife wildlife is out of here, 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.960 you know, and uh, watching the roads and just thinking 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.680 it's like, wait, there are any white tail up here? 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.640 You know. So it's like the change in wildlife from 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.240 from you know, just in within a couple hundred miles 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:02.240 is crazy too, you know. It's it's interesting because yeah, 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.960 we leave here and we're on the fringe of the 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:09.880 Eastern deciduous forest, like basically from the Arkansas line all 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:13.200 the way to the Atlantic Ocean is you know, if 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:18.400 you're talking then massive. Uh uh let's see what would 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.840 be the right word, uh, not topographical, not geographical, but 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:26.920 just like um climax forests were in the Eastern deciduous 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.320 forest from here all the way to the Atlantic Ocean 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:35.080 would have before European settlers got here, been forested from 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:41.080 the border of Arkansas to basically the Rocky Mountains is 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:45.440 the plains. I mean, you get very far into you 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:49.200 start heading west in Oklahoma, you get into like flat country, 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.680 great plains, I mean, big time stuff. So we drove, 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.600 we kind of we kind of cut the edge of 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:59.960 the deciduous forest and the plains went up through southern Missouri, 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.800 and then once we get into Iowa, you're still you're 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.560 still in the eastern deciduous forest. But then we started 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.520 to kind of move west, and that's when we transitioned 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:11.160 into South Dakota, North Dakota, and that's like big flatland plains. 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:15.400 Southern Canada is big egg land, I mean bread basket 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.320 of the planet type land. And then you get into 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.840 the border forests. About a third of the way up 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.600 in the Manitoba you hit the boreal forest. And the 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:28.600 boreal forest is an amazing place. It's not spectacular beauty 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.000 like the Rockies, or it's not like majestic beauty like 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.359 setting on top of you know, the continental Divide in 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.440 Montana and seeing snow capped mountains. It's more of a 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:44.960 to me, it's more of a nuanced, rugged beauty of well, 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.560 it's jackpines, it's spruce. There are a lot of poplar, 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:53.399 but these trees only get to grow for five maybe 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:57.680 six months a year. Average snowfall is like super deep 0:17:58.000 --> 0:17:59.879 and so it's like a rugged environment. And to me, 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:01.919 that's where the beauty comes from. Is you know that 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:06.560 anything that has survived up here is an ultimate specialist. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:12.080 You know they that animal, that tree, that plant has developed. 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.560 You know, it's it's it's designed for that environment. And 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.560 uh So, to me, the beauty comes in just understanding 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:24.600 the difficulty of being a living thing there. And just 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.720 like you said too, as you travel north, you get 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:33.760 into the different the different wildlife transitions, and up there, 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:35.920 the only things that are there as far as big 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:41.159 game are the odd caribou, which are some Cariboo there, Moose, 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:47.679 black bear, and wolves. That's it, those four things. And 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:50.360 I mean in Cariboo we work in the scenic Cariboo 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.760 where we were at. I mean they might get the 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:56.760 odd herd that would come through. Small herd now moose, yes, 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.879 a lot of this good classic moose country, but really 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:04.680 the thing that dominates the landscape is black bear. I mean, 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.879 the boreal forest was made for black bear and uh 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:14.200 and also wolf. To diverge slightly, just because I said 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:17.080 the term wolf. A lot of our outfits and Bearning 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:21.080 Magazine offer wolf tags for on their fall bear hunts, 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:23.800 and some of their spring hunts. I've always kind of 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.240 thought that was just like a constellation prize that maybe 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:30.400 just happened really randomly with hunters. But while we were there, 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.159 we realized what a real possibility is to shoot a 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.840 wolf in the fault. I mean, one of the guys 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.680 we weren't so cold. So Corey has two camps in 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:42.240 Northern Camp Southern camp. Colby and I were just it 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:44.760 was just us in the southern camp, and there were 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:46.960 five or six hundreds in the northern camp. And on 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:48.720 the first night one of the guys in the north 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:54.560 killed wolf with a boat. Yeah. Um. And we were 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:58.600 seeing wolf pictures on trail cameras, probably not every day, 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:03.120 but often on the baits we were hunting. And on 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:07.720 the final day of my hunt, we bumped a wolf 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:09.600 off of the bait. We didn't see it, but we 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.560 saw the truck coming. Pictures later we bumped a wolf 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:15.160 off of the bait while I was there, And I mean, 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.159 so when I climbed up in the tree, it was 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:19.720 like a wolf was here like thirty minutes ago, sitting 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:23.440 right there, and they're actually eating the corn and grease. Yeah. 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.200 And then Corey spotted a wolf on the way up. Yeah, 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:28.080 when we were headed out of account if yeah, if 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:31.080 we had played our cards just right, we'd have seen it. 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.960 We were following the outfitter out on the way out 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:35.760 one night and he saw a wolf across the road. 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:39.159 So I mean wolves are up there big time, and 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.720 I mean it's a real possibility to shoot a wolf, 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:46.679 which was cool. So the wildlife, the transition. So we 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:48.600 said all that to say, it's pretty cool the road 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:53.000 trip to the far North. And you know, economically, I 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:56.000 haven't done the math, but for two people we definitely 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:58.000 save money. I mean we would have spent six hundred 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.000 bucks apiece and then rented a car and then drove 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:04.280 another eight hours probably, so we we would have had 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:09.200 two thousand dollars and travel expenses probably between the two 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:13.800 of us. And so we've probably spent uh it wasn't 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:16.840 that much. Seven hundred bucks and fuel maybe hying that 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:20.720 much combined comebin yeah, yeah, so combined it travel expence 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:23.600 was a lot less. Now we were traveling for a 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:26.800 good part of this. When we when we switched over 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:30.919 the old white Betty Chevrolet to kilometers per hour, we 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:33.359 had her pegged out at a hundred and forty kilometers 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:36.080 per hour. We had no idea how fast we're going. 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:38.639 Turns out that's about eighty miles per hour. So we 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:42.399 were averaging about eighty miles and the loading wasn't around 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:48.640 in Canada laws on the road man. When we got 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:52.399 to Canada and you started hitting the speed limit signs 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:58.040 that are in kilometers per hour and just f y, well, 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:01.840 it's probably just Americans let into this, but if perhaps 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:05.600 a Canadian listens to this, Americans have zero understanding and 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:09.720 native ability to translate kilometers per hour into miles. Prom Yeah, 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:12.320 we had no idea how fast we're going, so we 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:15.959 decided that since we didn't know that, maybe the laws 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:18.439 just didn't apply to bear hunters, so we just just 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:24.119 we were passing those Canucks left and right. Yeah. Yeah, 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:29.360 uh totally safe though. We were totally safe now. So 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:32.160 so that gets us start through our road triple. So 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:37.080 we we at Thompson, Manitoba, and to get to bear Camp, 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:40.440 we drove about forty five minutes out of Thompson, put 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:42.800 all our stuff in a boat, and then took a 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:47.800 boat to his what he calls his outpost camp, which 0:22:47.880 --> 0:22:51.600 is uh super nice. I mean, I guess you'd call 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:54.600 it a lodge. I mean it's not like one large building, 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:58.520 but it was multiple log cabin buildings, sleeping quarters, and 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:02.600 then the main lodge. It's a small lodge, rustic but 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:08.000 nice clean. You know. We weren't roughing it. We were 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:12.320 not roughing. It felt like the lap of luxury. Yeah. Yeah, 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:15.359 off the grid style. Yeah, totally off the grid. You 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:17.159 can't drive, I mean, the only way to get there 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:21.200 is by boat. Um and uh, or if you're cool, 0:23:21.280 --> 0:23:24.680 by float plane. Yeah, if you're yep. Corey brought in 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:27.000 this float plane the first night. So the only way 0:23:27.040 --> 0:23:30.520 to get there was by boat. And so we ended 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:34.320 up taking the boat to every day we hunted, which 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:37.400 to me added a neat a neat field to the hunt, 0:23:37.800 --> 0:23:41.119 you know. But so just a little bit about the camp. 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:45.040