Sorry I haven’t gotten a chance to blog - we’ve been busy, busy, busy. Going hard trying for moose and caribou. Steve, Johnny, Todd and I went hunting with Sarah and Brenda Potterfield out in the moose spike camp. We got way up on a monster hill to glass and spotted four bulls, two of them looked really good, so we went on a five-mile stalk, first on ARGO, then on foot. We got up to them bedded with a cow and a young bull. The cow and small bull stood up, we got within 70 yards and the big bull finally stood up.  Sarah made a perfect shot; it was a gigantic bull, 64 inches wide, tines, beautiful big pans and huge fronts. So then, we skinned it, quartered it all, took pictures and set it out to cool. Then we got back up on the ridge and there’s another giant bull, 63 inches that we snuck up on. This time Brenda Potterfield made a perfect shot, all on camera, 50 yards, and this one had points like a picket fence all the way around the side, it was unbelievable! Great footage, and we had to set up camp right there because it was getting dark. All of us got together were skinning and got it all quartered by midnight. We had a fire going, had roast ribs and then went to sleep.

The Next Day…

Got up, went back to spike camp and picked up the other moose that was cooling. One moose and three people in each ARGO, loaded up the third ARGO with our extra gear and headed all the way back to main camp just in time for the airplane to come. All the meat went out, all the antlers; Sarah and Brenda went out to main camp as well. The airplane brought in Dan Goodenow’s dad, Garry. He couldn’t hunt because it was too late in the afternoon. He wanted a wolf in the worst way, and hopefully a caribou, but a wolf is quite unusual. He had to wait until today, then Johnny, Todd, Garry and I all went out and sure as heck, we saw two wolves. One of them came up to Garry at 50 yards; he made a perfect shot. A huge, charcoal-colored wolf, it was beautiful. Right after he shot, we look up and there’s a caribou. All of four of us snuck up on it, and he made another perfect shot at 310 yards. He is over-the-moon excited. All of us just got back into camp with the two ARGOs, the caribou, and Johnny is just starting to skin the wolf now.

Tomorrow Tim Schnell, from Stealth Cam, flies in and we go hunting again. It’s fantastic; the weather is still beautiful. Yesterday we got another 65-inch bull at one of our camps, and another 60-inch bull today. There is action all over our territory, the guys are seeing moose and it’s going great.