We have finally made it back onto US soil after our two week Grizzly hiatus in Southern British Columbia. I have finally found a place that has a larger grizzly bear density than my elk hunting stomping grounds her in Wyoming. Nate and I glassed up over 20 bears in six days with two of them being true trophies. We bumped another three bears face on the trail while horseback, making the final grizzly tally right at 23 bears in six days of hunting. We encountered some very warm, sunny spring days along with some horrendous rain storms, as well as snow and hail. A little of everything and some very long days to boot - you gotta love springtime in the Rockies.

Although we did not connect with the pumpkin-headed, banana-clawed giant we spotted on the first day, we did finally take a good bear high above the river in a steep alpine snow slide. The footage is incredible and the Weatherby performed yet again on this gorgeous spring mountain grizzly. After rolling and tumbling over 400 yards and off three cliffs the bear was dead for certain and missing one claw which I could not seem to locate. Look for this exciting episode to air on our TV show, Eastmans’ Hunting Journal, some time this fall. Keep checking www.eastmans.com for the up to date TV schedule.

It’s always nice to be back home is wonderful Wyoming. The rivers are finally starting to shape up from the spring run off and it is certainly time for me to break out the fly rod and head for “trout heaven.”

See you on the river, I am headed to wet a line.

Guy

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