Why do we hunt? It's an age old question that can't be answered in a single sentence.  Sure there's the instinctual drive that man has possessed ever since he decided to get up off his knuckles and run a woolly mammoth off a cliff.  The cave man who came back to the village with enough sustenance to feed the clan was held in the highest regard.  So there's definitely some of that left in us today, when we bring home that big whitetail buck or cooler full of moose meat from Alaska.  It gives us … [Read more...]

Following this weeks spring bear hunting theme, today I want to talk about the perhaps the finest hunt in the world, coastal grizzly and black bear hunting! Every spring in Alaska when the first bears emerge from the den, they wipe the sand from their eyes and decide they want to get the heck down out of the snow.  Black bear or brown bear alike, this means if they live in a coastal region they'll head for the beaches, where the first green shoots of sedge grass that will be easy on their … [Read more...]