Bear Hunt - Alaska Coastal Bears
July 24, 2008
by Mike Whelan.
I had a great six day black bear hunt with Dave Benitz. Dave runs Stikine Guide Service out of Petersburg, Alaska. We hunted off of his boat the Sandpiper, moving and staying in small bays and inlets along the islands and mainland with in thirty or forty miles of Petersburg. The Sandpiper was our home base and from it, we would use a sixteen foot skiff to motor along the shores and glass for bears feeding. I had at least one archery stalk a day and sometimes more than one on good boars. To me this was great archery hunting, good stalking and big bear. Dave is a great person to be with and a very good guide, plus his cooking is pretty darn good. We saw 50 to 60 black bear in six days, Dave said that is probably low for his hunts and, naturally, he sees all the bear first. Don’t try to spot bears before him, it just doesn’t work, his son Deven and I spent our days discussing cameras, sea otters, humpbacks and halibut. I shot a good boar, had a great time and couldn’t recommend his hunts any higher than just flat excellent.
Moose DVD - Hunting Project
July 24, 2008
We have about 5 years in our new moose dvd, our goal is to fill it with big moose and both rifle and archery hunts, but it is a hunting project. We have four hunts filmed and the photos plus video clips of moose, will help keep you up to date on this DVD as we near the finish line, but no final date yet with our first moose DVD.
Lion DVD - Hunting Project
July 24, 2008
We think by the spring of 2009 we will have another lion hunting DVD ready to go. We have been filming hunts for about four years and, again, we have great footage of mountain lions from Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Mexico, New Mexico and Utah. We have a some photos and some short video clips that will keep you current as we finish this lion DVD.
Archery Elk DVD - Hunting Project
July 24, 2008
Northstar has a year into this elk hunting DVD project and we already have some great elk footage. Todd Ostrum’s bull elk is a giant, filmed in Arizona in 2007. Todd and Travis McClendon put in a lot of time filming and hunting this bull elk last year. Travis will be in Arizona this year looking for another giant bull elk on his own tag. As a group we have some great elk tags this year, we intend to film these hunts and with some luck, we will have good hunts and finish this bow hunting only DVD for release in the spring of 2009.
Bear DVD - Hunting Project
July 22, 2008
We are pretty sure we will finish our first black bear hunting DVD in March 2009. Mike just returned from a black bear hunt in Alaska where they stalked coastal black bears and where he managed to take a very nice boar, you can see some pictures under Current Hunts. We also have filmed rifle hunts in Arizona , New Mexico and Colorado. This production will have both rifle and archery hunts and is mostly spot and stalk hunting. We have been gathering footage of black bear for this DVD for six years.
Cover photo Muley Madness 2 @ Kristi Fillman
July 2, 2008
@ Kristi Fillman ,www.highdesertwest.com
Cactus Bull - Archery elk - AZ
July 2, 2008
This is a current photo of the “Cactus Bull” filmed and hunted by John McClendon
“The Powder Horn Bull” - Elk - Hunting Projects
July 2, 2008
” The Powder Horn Bull” maybe still out there, probably growing. Hopefully growing into a huge bull elk this year.