Spring Brown Bear Hunts with Alaska Remote Guide Service

Our “EARLY BIRD” BROWN BEAR hunts offer the "ultimate" in North America hunting. These hunts start as early as late March, run through May, and are an excellent way to "crawl out of hibernation and jump into spring!"  These hunts are my best bet for big boars with prime hides, but they aren’t easy! 

We hunt in GMU 16B in a 600 plus square mile “sole use” guide concession in Denali Preserve, where you won’t be competing with other guided hunters.  My concession was recently expanded to include prime denning areas that have been off limits to guided non residents since 1988!  

We target large males just as they are emerging from their dens, and while their hides are prime.  Early spring snow depths accommodate excellent access by a Super Cub on skis, to areas that are hard to reach otherwise.  Tracks help a great deal in determining a bear's size and location and make it easier to retrieve wounded animals. Also bears are hungry and killing a moose (or several) seems to be first on their agenda.

We’ve been hunting spring brown bears in this area since 1987 and do consistently well on large males in the 8’1/2’ to 9’ range with most skull sizes of 24 inches and up.  Our largest was 9’ 10” with a 27 & 7/16ths skull.  We keep a detailed account of where and when bears and/or concentrated activity (feeding, tracks, trails, diggings, or dens) are seen. This extra effort is worth it to help you get your bear!

Alaska spring brown bear seasons do not start until May in most other units. By this time the snow is gone, access is more difficult, and vegetation has started to green, making bears harder to see. Bears have been out of hibernation for some time and hides are often "rubbed." We can't control the weather but effort will be 100%+ !

 

PRICES AND SPECIFICS

14 Day, 1X1 Spring Brown Bear Hunt = $14,500.00 each. 

We will set up a comfortable tent camp on a protected saddle in between two major bear denning drainages, and hunt two clients at once from this location.  I’ll have one other guide assisting me, and my Super Cub on skis will be in camp most of the time, except when ferrying gear and supplies. We set up as close to moose kills or bear dens as we can with the Super Cub, but then do the rest on snow shoes. We can't hunt on any day that we've been airborne.

DATES – April 5th – 18th, 2009 - Trip length includes in and out days.  Clients should try to arrive a day or two early and leave a day or two later than actual trip dates.   When possible, we try to get clients that achieve early success, out early if they wish. 

NOTE: A person who has been airborne may not take or assist in taking big game until after 3:00 a.m. following the day in which the flight occurred. 

PRICES INCLUDE -  one round trip air charter, food, lodging and trophy care in the field (necessary fleshing and salting to preserve hides until we get to town), and transportation between Anchorage and the air charter.
 
NOT INCLUDED - Round trip transportation of you and your gear, game and trophies between your home and Anchorage, necessary hotel accommodations before and after your hunt, and licenses and tags.  We will gladly assist you in making arrangements and reservations, and can sell you the tags ourselves (non-resident hunting license = $85.00, brown/grizzly tag = $500.00, black bear tag = $225.00 – see “License and Tag Fees” link for complete information).  

INCIDENTAL SPECIES – Black bear, wolf and wolverine can be hunted for no additional charge, contingent upon open seasons.  “Incidental” means that we don’t move to or specifically hunt for them, but if we run across one while pursuing sheep or brown bear, and can take it without messing up your main hunt, you can.  You must purchase the tags in advance.  Wolf tags aren’t required by non residents in my concession area.