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Brent's Wild Adventure at Hunting Camp while Wrangling
by Brent Potts



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Brent's Wild Adventure at Hunting Camp while Wrangling

Here's what happened grizzly bear started digging around the tent the first night rule of thumb your not aloud to shoot the grizzly unless he comes in the tent so the second night the grizzly came back and dug around tapped on the back wall of the tent then went away so the third night the grizzly came back it came through the side wall and knocked the wood stove over caught the whole canvas tent on fire and the grizzly came in went out as it knocked the wood stove over. So I didn't even get a chance to shoot it because it right by the door and this happened at ten o'clock at night so it's pitch dark no flash light to use to find anything like my boots. So while the tent is on fire burning I never had time to grab any of my clothes the only thing I was able to grab was my gun because it was loaded and laying beside me with the safety lock on. So here I am standing out in the pouring rain in my sock feet and a jacket til 5:30 in the morning deciding on what I'm going to do. So the only thing I was able to save was the radio and it was sitting by the front so since the front was already burned and I reached over the propane tanks to save the radio so I could call for help in the morning. So anyway I found a canvas tarp and went to the tree stand which I knew if I stayed there someone would come along and rescue me which they did. So in order to catch the float plane I walked in my bare feet down the hillside rocks which cut a few of my toes up. Go in to base camp to get dried off and some clothes that bought me plus I lost all my personal belonging and wallet with all my I.D. in it. Which I'm right now replacing. So I got to spend one night in at base camp then I got to go back out to after they rebuilt because this happened two days before client was coming so we did quick fix on rebuilding the camp so the last client could hunt grizzly then he decided to shut camp down the last client got his grizzly which he did. Plus is relocating the Tahoots camp because build there's all tundra and grazing for the horses so the horses end up going over 3 miles by 3 miles to graze. Because when you build a camp build it in meadow near water so horses don't have to go so far for grazing. Plus this the second time a grizzly has destroyed the Tahoots camp and tore the canvas tent apart he's decided enough is enough he's flying a grainery in to where he's relocating the camp using that as a cabin. So shut the camp because too many problems with the grizzly bear. The other thing I was only left with four shells which isn't much because generally it takes two shells to kill a grizzly unless you hit them in the right spot but the adventure was fun while it lasted and no I didn't quit or get fired. And if the grizzly hadn't of gone right back out I would actually have shot it. But it's funny the grizzly never bothered the fresh caribou meat or moose meat or bacon in the pannier outside the tent dishes were done and cleaned up. I still think the grizzly wanted me.


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This page was updated on 1 Oct, 2002 by Rebecca Kennel