In case I haven’t mentioned it, bear season is my favorite hunt. The work building up to opening day makes me appreciate the time I spend quietly waiting and watching for a bear. Watching a sow with twin cubs as I sat on the ground behind a six foot long…
We started prepping for bear hunting season in late August. My site had to be moved this year after discovering that “the bear” could see me through the woods. He’s a smart one, that bear I’ve been after for five seasons. Steve and I didn’t set up the new site…
Maine Moose Hunt – Opening Day The number of moose we saw while scouting was discouragingly low. We were up at 4 am on Sunday and out the door 30 minutes later. We rode The Golden Road and a lot of the side roads on the Zone 9 side near…
Our Maine Moose Hunt A Maine moose hunt is something hunters from all over hope for, wait for, dream of, apply for, and one that few of us get. More than 50,000 people entered the lottery in 2018 and around 2,500 of us were drawn. It’s one thing to have…
Late Summer Mornings There’s something about late summer mornings that revives my tired soul. You know that feeling. The one where you’ve worked your ass off all spring and summer and here it is late August and the to do list is longer than the done list. That feeling. The…
Bear Site 1 – Two Days Later It didn’t take long. I’ve had time to look up pictures from 2017 and make some comparisons. I believe this bear is the one I didn’t get a shot at last year. That makes him the bear that stole the Foriflex pan not…
Setting up Bear Bait Sites Look! This isn’t a recipe. It’s a minor miracle, right? 😉 I’ve been absent for a long time. Sometimes we need down time to figure out what we’re doing, how we’re doing it, why we’re doing, who we are and want to be, and simply…
A Bear in My Sights We’re at the end of the bear over bait hunting season. Until last night we hadn’t seen a bear with our own eyes. We have some interesting things going on but we see these things only by camera. Steve’s site has three sows with a…
Bear Hunting Update What a year. I hoped, as always, that the next bear hunting update would include a picture of me sitting with a dead bear, a photo taken moments after pulling the trigger. Moments before field dressing and heading off to the tagging station and the butcher. Sows…
Weekend Work Great weekend! Not that it was fun though we got a lot done. We’re sacrificing a lot of time this year for weekend work. The list of things that need to be done is long but we’re knocking items off at a steady rate. My favorite part of…