Mike Whelan 5-2009 AK

I thought I would never be an addict but now I think of May and all I can see is hunting big black bear on the beaches, maybe add a little crabbing and then throw in some halibut fishing just for fun A good friend of mine Brent Bunger and I went on a six day black bear hunt with Dave Benitz of Petersburg, Alaska. We went the second and part of the third week in May this year. Our goal was to video and hunt a couple of good black bear. On the morning of the first day, an opportunity for a stalk happened very quickly, I hustled on to the beach after Dave, carting my Mathews DXT and decided to to try a stalk. Thirty or fourty minutes later I was thirty five yards from a good black bear. We had two cameras rolling when I managed to slip a Shuttle T-lock broadhead behind the bears front shoulder. He went about seventy yards and piled up just off of the beach. That left Brent with a whole week to play with about sixty black bear that we would see. Both Brent and I wore Advantage Max-1 camo, which works very well for us in the Southwest, although we did have some concerns how it would look on these beaches. We will let the video of Brent stalking some black bear show you how well it works. Brent must have hunted and passed on between ten to fifteen huge bear before he decided, on the last day we had to hunt, to pound a big black boar on a cold, rainy beach. What a great hunt, we single handedly put a dent in the dungeness crab population, caught six halibut, shot two bear and saw over sixty bear. It is hard to explain how much fun the hunt was. I guess the best way to explain it is to say that we already booked for next year. All these hunts and more will be on Bear Stalker 2, this bear hunting DVD, to be released May 2010.

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