Largest Grizzly/Brown bear areas

[AGL4now]

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care to enlighten us with more accurate information ?

No.......I like this forum, and I don't want to do that. Often when I try to help, it gets taken the wrong way. People get stuck defending their beliefs, and it just deteriorates.

 

[69firebird]

Between the Alaska Department of Commerce, APHA, and Fish and Game, and online outfitter reports. I'm getting a good bunch of info on guys in 8,9, and 10.

Before I even start making phone calls

 

[Pdvdh]

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care to enlighten us with more accurate information ?

To my understanding, a Kodiak bear is a brown bear that lives on Kodiak Island. And to hunt a Kodiak brown bear, one could only do so on Kodiak Island. Or maybe the immediately adjacent islands, such as Afognak...

 

[prohuntersmind]

Well, you live and you learn.

 

[dok7mm]

A troll is a person commenting on the OPs request for experienced replies, when he knows he has no experience to offer, just babble.

 

[AGL4now]

I am not sure to whom your are making reference, but if it be me.......you are way wrong on the "Experience" issue.

A troll is a person commenting on the OPs request for experienced replies, when he knows he has no experience to offer, just babble.

 

[dok7mm]

Nope, never considered you.

 

[86alaskan]

As far as Kodiak bears, yes it has to come from the Kodiak Archipelago to be considered as such. It is technically just a brown bear, the same as the peninsula or Kenai Penninsula. While I haven't hunted those areas, I've taken a couple bears in central alaska and will say the big ones are coastal. My two came from the mountains, and while very respectable, pale in comparison to the salmon fed bears of the coast. I'd vote fall for opportunity and hide quality. IN the spring you have to catch them before they rub, or they'll have poor fur. Both of my bears came from October and have very soft thick coats.

 

[86alaskan]

Check out Afognak Wilderness Lodge, they have an excellent record for large bears and excellent hunting accommodations. They're on Afognak and do a great job getting people on giant coastal bears.

 

[69firebird]

Check out Afognak Wilderness Lodge, they have an excellent record for large bears and excellent hunting accommodations. They're on Afognak and do a great job getting people on giant coastal bears.

Thank you for the recommend I was looking into the Randall's.

 

[86alaskan]

I worked in Anchorage with a close friend of the Randall's, and he never had anything but good things to say. I always remember during the fall, he would show me pictures from them about every other day of huge bears they had taken. I'd go there with confidence.

 

[86alaskan]

good example of the grit these guides had, and how ready they are to hold their ground.

 

[Capt RB]

good example of the grit these guides had, and how ready they are to hold their ground.

Nice video. Guide held out for that bow hunter much longer than I ever would have.

 

[69firebird]

Ya that bear looked to only be another gun length away when the guide shot it. The client didn't look to thrilled afterwards. I was thinking he should have arrowed it another time when it was walking broadside before it turned and charged. BUT I wasn't there lol