Recent content by Green Chile

Great scope. These are perfect for .375 and up.

For those who are curious about bringing home bear trophies from Canada, it's quite simple. Put theclocking tag on the bear hide and fold it up tight to reduce the size...freeze it in a trash bag...put that in a cooler and you check it as excess baggage. You have your paper tag that...

Selling my older pair of SLC 8x30's...very clean example in black. I haven't been able to find the box/accessories. Used on a few trips to Africa and put away for several years. No issues...great classic optics used by PHs everywhere. $650 shipped in US. If I find the box later, I will...

They don’t have a van. Might be old info. Drive is about 4 hours. No one was picked up from airport. One bear province. If you wound and lose the bear you can buy in for $900.

Thanks. No decision yet but it’s not big enough for a full mount. Rug or just tanned hide most likely.

Exactly. I miss Alaska.

Your shooting will do just fine. Great setup and I use the same scope on my 416 Rigby. If you have anyone with you at the range, have them setup the sticks and see how quickly you can get on the sticks and ready to go. That's critical sometimes.

Good question on the meat. These particular bears had a lot of worms in them. Some of them would fall out while skinning them. The guides wouldn't eat them and after seeing that, I agreed. I'm just not that hungry.

I will share some thoughts on lessons learned on my 3rd bear and on this type of hunt. Bears are not particularly hard to kill unless you wound one and then they can go a LONG ways. They aren't bullet proof or even as strong as a lot of African PG but they deserve respect and a good plan to...

Ok, ok...so we are into day 4 of the hunt and the weather has detoriated into cold rain and mud everywhere. Some of the 6 wheel ATVs have gotten stuck and the Gore-Tex and muck boots are regular companions. By the way, you should always take something like crocs or indoor shoes to bear camp...

Good point on the boat based bear hunts. That's another strong variation on the spot and stalk but from the water side.

We are close! Stay tuned. I don't purposefully do that but it's just the way the hunt experience rolls out. You should have seen the 2 week hunt report on leopard...that one killed all of us. Hah.