Royal Outfitters Montana Elk Hunting

A lot of the areas that are normally green this time of year and attractive to bears are not very green yet.  We have had a cold spring and things are just a bit behind normal it seems.  So, we decided to fucus on lower elevations this afternoon, where there is more green.  What do you know, we found a bear.  We spotted nice jet black bear grazing on a meadow this evening and after careful deliberation made out stalk.  The only thing that went wrong is that the bear did not hang around long enough for us to get a close look at him.  I think we well find him tomorrow.

Very warm again today.  We saw no bears again today.  lots of elk and deer again, probably 50 or so elk.  Larry saw a one black bear and got a neat picture of the bear and an elk on the same meadow.  both of them grazing within 50 yards of one another.  The pic was taken through his spotting scope. 

Thunderstorms tonight and cooler weather tomorrow.  I hope that the bears will be more active tomorrow since they wont be roasting in the sun.  I will keep the updates coming.

We covered a lot of country today, some on foot, and some driving.  We did a lot of glassing.  In the end we did not see any bears but saw apporoximately 35 elk including a bachelor group of 5 bulls.  And of course a pile of mule deer, and a few whitetails.  One bull moose, a beaver, and a mother fox with a litter of pups that were playing with a dead gopher.  I will try to get the fox pictures posted soon. 

Larry showed up with his crew and did some scouting.   They saw a nice brown bear and put the sneak on, but the bear didn’t hang around. 

It was a fantastic day with temps in the70s and some fluffy clouds in the afternoon to temper the heat.

Just one hunter in camp today, my  good friend Tim  who usually comes each fall for archery elk season.   His hunting partner Russ will be showing up tomorrow night.  Anyway Tim and I convered a lot of country today both driving and on foot and spent a lot of time with binoculars to our eyes.  At the end of the day we had seen about 25 elk, countless mule deer, a dipper, a ton of fantastic scenery and last but not least, one very beautiful blonde color phase black bear.  He was a young one and probably only a hundred pounds or so, so we let him go.   He is ceartainly one of the most beautiful bears I have ever seen, Alaska included.    You shoulda been there.