Hunting with Mike

Just got this picture from Tom Sorenson, of his brother, on their Idaho bear hunt from last week. Tom has a blog site called “basecamplegends.com” of which I will be adding to my links on this blog. Tom had e-mailed me a few weeks ago and had read several of my bear hunting blogs. Since this was the first bear hunt he or his brother had been on, they wanted to pick my brain a little . (my wife said “slim pickings!”)

The bear have not been out of hibernation for very long, and they need to start off with a diet of grasses, because their digestive systems have been shut down for several months. Tom and his family had hunted for elk, in this area, and saw 7 bear last year. According to Tom this “drainage” hold some really good mountain meadows, and it seemed like a good place to glass.

The bear is not big, but he is gorgeous! The fur is very long, and the color phase is a lovely cinnamon. I have seen quite a few bear, in the wild, but never a color phase. This bear also has a stunning white “V” on its chest. I hear we have a few color phase in Michigan, but they are extremely rare. I don’t want to tell to much of the Sorenson brothers story, so to get it all go to www.basecamplegends.com and look for Tom’s blog. I also have a blog on Tom’s web called “hunting the good, the bad, the ugly”, and no it’s not about me and my three brothers!

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