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Bear Quest III >>---> Start Your Engines

Started by tippit, May 27, 2009, 08:28:00 PM

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Bill Kissner

Here are a few pics.

The highway above LaTuque


Then gravel.


Then narrow gravel.


Then camp!
Time spent alone in the woods puts you closer to God.

"Can't" never accomplished anything.

Bill Kissner

Confusion??


Bowdoc and our first meal, great chicken wings!!!
Time spent alone in the woods puts you closer to God.

"Can't" never accomplished anything.

Bill Kissner

Time spent alone in the woods puts you closer to God.

"Can't" never accomplished anything.

Bill Kissner

My bear taken 2nd afternoon, weighed 176#.



Matty's bear and Suzy!
Time spent alone in the woods puts you closer to God.

"Can't" never accomplished anything.

Bill Kissner

Discussing strategy?



Dick and Bill.


Thomas and Suzy.....
Time spent alone in the woods puts you closer to God.

"Can't" never accomplished anything.

Grant Young

Hey Bill- Don't forget to show pictures of those ribs, LOL. Just catching up at work and hope to download some pictures soon. This was a great time spent with great company- I came home bear-less and can't imagine enjoying myself any more than I did. It was great to see old friends and to meet new ones. As usual, Tom put on a great hunt, Bowdoc put on a great show, and LaTuque supplied plenty of bears. Glad to see everybody posting after safe journies home. Be back later with more.                         GY

Bill Kissner

Matty,the best man in camp for being in shape (except maybe Tom).



Steve and Suzy had an on going love affair.


Checking game cam pics....
Time spent alone in the woods puts you closer to God.

"Can't" never accomplished anything.

Bill Kissner

Time spent alone in the woods puts you closer to God.

"Can't" never accomplished anything.

tippit

Bill,
Some great pictures around camp.  Seems every year I pull my camera out less & less.  Glad you're picking up the flavor of the hunt  :thumbsup:  

Also nice to see Susie on "her" bears  :)   Doc
TGMM Family of the Bow
VP of Consumption MK,LLC

Bill Kissner

Kevin's bear and Suzy!



Steve's bear with Suzy!
Time spent alone in the woods puts you closer to God.

"Can't" never accomplished anything.

RRock

The picture of Matty with the bear, was it taken at the Black Label stand?

Bill Kissner

And look at the famous bus we got to see on the way home!!!!





Time spent alone in the woods puts you closer to God.

"Can't" never accomplished anything.

Bill Kissner

Yes, Matty killed his bear on the Black Label stand.
Time spent alone in the woods puts you closer to God.

"Can't" never accomplished anything.

Chris Surtees

Looks like y'all had a blast...congrats to all of you!

beachbowhunter

I know there's at least one Contractor in the picture of the tent going up. You're still probably waiting for the other subcontractors to show up!

Man, that place looks like the Ritz! And here I thought you guys were roughing it and being skeeter chow.
Ishi was a Californian                   :cool:

Shaun

WOW! What a hunt.

Tom had some help baiting the two weekends before the event, but it was still hard to imagine the amount of hard work that T Phillips personally gets done to make this gathering such a success.

I am just home from a long drive with a stop in Ohio to visit family for fathers' day and rest a bit. Not much sleep in camp with visiting till after midnight and up early for coffee with the Bow Doctor.

Great bunch of Tradgang hunters and some true sportsmen. Back with pics and a couple tall tales later.

Curveman

Shaun is the Walleye king! I managed to catch 7 or 8 but he caught one every time his line touched the water it seemed! We feasted on them and some other fine cuisine including: steamers, ribs, moose, venison...bowdoc is an exceptional cook with the right ingredients and all of us got fatter over the week. I think even Matty, (aka "TrailMix") the exercise physiologist, lost a step!   :bigsmyl:
Compliance Officer MK,LLC
NRA Life Member

tippit

This years Quest started like the past two Quests with guys flying or driving into Boston and meeting at my house.  Molly & I had seven visitors for Friday night dinner.  Paul (PV) picked up Randy & Thomas Reeves as they flew in from Texas, Uncle Barry came down from Maine, Rob (Blue Monday) drove up from Cape Cod, and Steve (Curveman) is local. Everyone arrived around 4 PM. After shooting both bows & the $!#* and a tour of my basement, we settled in for some burgers and fixings...we all sure enjoyed Paul's addition of Elk burgers.  Nothing like wild game to make your mind wander about the up coming week.  

At 9:30 PM we got the call from Tom that his group from western Mass was hitting the road.  We let them get an hour head start cause our drive from eastern Mass would be that much shorter to the Canadian border where we met up at 1:30 AM. It is a long 10 hour drive through the night to get to La Tuque by morning, but everyone was pumped to get there.

In La Tuque we met up with the Langer Crew and Bill & Myron from IL.  Now a 30 mile trip into the bush with camp at the end of the road...did I mention dust, bumps, and logging trucks to avoid on that dirt road     :eek:  

After getting set up in camp, it was off to refresh all the baits.  I usually hunt the river so I took a crew in boats to 'em done.  All 24 baits had been hit and cleaned out...that sure made spirits fly high.

Now to get bows ready & broadheads sharpened. This is the point where I try to focus on my goal for the hunt.  Over the past three years I'd had a mission...first was the LDB bow hunt which was the seed that started an all traditional bear hunt called Quebec Bear Quest!  That year I was lucky enough to get the largest bear in camp with the LDB.  Plus Allen took a bear with it too and a good friend Brian gave up his compound to take a bear with my Griffin.  The next year Bear Quest I, I was also lucky enough to harvest a very nice bear with my Osage selfbow and a stone point from Woody.  Ray Hammond was in the tree above me catching some amazing video footage of how sharp a stone point can be with a complete pass thru shot ending in a death moan.  Last year my mission was to use a tippit broadhead with Eric Ackerman's beautiful hickory selfbow also ending in success.  Thus the start of Team Tippit  :)

This year I was going to use Charlie Lamb's beautiful longbow that he made me after the TX Pig Gig...but I tweaked my shoulder and will have an MRI on it this coming Wednesday.  I was comfortable dropping down to my 58" 53#@28 Griffin and using another tippit broadhead but there wasn't any driving force behind this years hunt.  So I decided I'd try for a larger bear and maybe hunt the entire week not really caring if I got a bear or not.  After all I still had four bear hides in the freezer, a nice shoulder mount of the LDB bear, and a 6 foot bear rug from my largest bear.

By shear fate this year's mission was about to change...Doc
TGMM Family of the Bow
VP of Consumption MK,LLC

robtattoo

AND?????

Some of us couldn't make it (BOO!!!  :(  ) and I neeeeed to know what I'm missing!
"I came into this world, kicking, screaming & covered in someone else's blood. I have no problem going out the same way"

PBS & TBT Member

>>---TGMM, Family of the Bow--->

Kingwouldbe

This hunt has to go on my bucket list    :thumbsup:


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