elks96
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So another weekend down. Exploring WY is a lot of fun and a little unnerving at times...
This weekend we headed back to chase turkey. Saturday we headed into the area where I killed mom last weekend. A lot of hunters and the birds had moved. We hiked up a canyon over 4 miles following a group of turkey tracks. Eventually we crossed a sow grizzly track with a cub.The snow was deep and the turkeys were well up into the wilderness area so we gave up. 8+ miles round trip and we were wore out.
The next morning we headed into an area I had e scouted.... Well we found a ton of elk, way more than the video shows. We also were sitting up high glassing a creek bottom when across the creek 2 grizzlies showed up. I am assuming it was a very large boar with a young female. The video is just a few seconds due to memory issues. But we watched these 2 from across the canyon for a 1/2 hour or so.
Then as we watched bear showed up in the creek below us and right on top of the turkeys. Needless to say we were not in a hurry to chase the turkeys in the creek bottom knowing there were 3 griz in there...
eventually we made a move on the turkeys and called them into 60 yards but never got a shot.
it was my first time seeing a griz in person and my son age 10 as well...
The video is not the best. It appears to be having a hard time focusing, might be time for a new camera I suppose... I have several minutes of Bear video...
This weekend we headed back to chase turkey. Saturday we headed into the area where I killed mom last weekend. A lot of hunters and the birds had moved. We hiked up a canyon over 4 miles following a group of turkey tracks. Eventually we crossed a sow grizzly track with a cub.The snow was deep and the turkeys were well up into the wilderness area so we gave up. 8+ miles round trip and we were wore out.
The next morning we headed into an area I had e scouted.... Well we found a ton of elk, way more than the video shows. We also were sitting up high glassing a creek bottom when across the creek 2 grizzlies showed up. I am assuming it was a very large boar with a young female. The video is just a few seconds due to memory issues. But we watched these 2 from across the canyon for a 1/2 hour or so.
Then as we watched bear showed up in the creek below us and right on top of the turkeys. Needless to say we were not in a hurry to chase the turkeys in the creek bottom knowing there were 3 griz in there...
eventually we made a move on the turkeys and called them into 60 yards but never got a shot.
it was my first time seeing a griz in person and my son age 10 as well...
The video is not the best. It appears to be having a hard time focusing, might be time for a new camera I suppose... I have several minutes of Bear video...
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