Endangered Grizzly Bear Photo Thread

[Beignet]

Thank you @rogerthat without you none of this would've been possible.

he’s really the cat’s meow, huh?

 

[Gerald Martin]

Good try,but Google Fu still pulls this up as it’s number one hit for keywords Montana Unlimited Hunttalk based on content.

Rebranding isn’t working.

 

[winmag]

 

[MTGomer]

Montana Unlimited Hunttalk

Rebranding isn’t working.

 

[BAKPAKR]

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This cat is now an absolute legend at this point. He's single handedly saved the beloved UL opportunity and doesn't even know it. Thank you @rogerthat without you none of this would've been possible.

I thought I had better post a photo of the absolute legend, just in case @rogerthat decides to take a break from HT.

 

[MTGomer]

In other news, the 2nd cat that was taken in three oh three sounds like a real dandy if the pic I saw is indeed that cat. Makes the lambington twine kitten from a few years ago look like it was from Wild Horse Island.

Tough year on the nursery

 

[Hams42]

In other news, the 2nd cat that was taken in three oh three sounds like a real dandy if the pic I saw is indeed that cat. Makes the lambington twine kitten from a few years ago look like it was from Wild Horse Island.

Tough year on the nursery

I think I had a stroke reading that. But if its the kitty that I saw a pic of alive I don't know how someone in good conscience could pull the trigger on it.

Also as sort of a late joiner of this thread earlier this year I love this thread but I do see the problem. I was thinking about hunting in general and about SM posts as well as YT videos and how I think they hurt more than they help. I am as much to blame as the next guy as I love a good hunting video but I also am tired of seeing so many people at every trial head that I pull up to.
This is all to say that I may puss out on a hunt or two but until FWP decides to shut the UL down I will be up there every year until I fill this damn tag. And then maybe I be I'll be a little bit closer to being as cool as @buffybr. So if this sucker gets nuked by ol' BigFin or Mrs.BigFin thanks everbody for the great stories I have truly loved hearing all the history around this hunt.

 

[520 Road Sow]

In other news, the 2nd cat that was taken in three oh three sounds like a real dandy if the pic I saw is indeed that cat. Makes the lambington twine kitten from a few years ago look like it was from Wild Horse Island.

Tough year on the nursery

Thanks @FREAK Your picture of the cute little kittens nuked em. Another casualty coming from the internet and this thread. Clean it up guys.

only kidding. .... maybe.

 

[sneakem]

Wait…. A bunch of dudes post 8 years worth of hunts/pictures/talk on a public forum and are now upset that everyone is reading them and want them deleted ?

I’m going to start a thread on my favorite super secret elk spot, hopefully no one reads it…

Someone has already saved the entire thread and will be available for the low price of $100 shortly after deleted… welcome to the commercialization of hunting…

 

[woods89]

I'll likely never make it to the Unlimiteds. I've enjoyed reading this thread many times, but it's hard not to support deletion with the implications of information sharing today.

This kind of hits me in one of my great internal conflicts. I love reading a good hunt report, especially when it has some great photos. I just can't write them up myself, though, as it always feels like I'd be pulling the curtain back on something I'd prefer to protect. In a way it kind of makes me a hypocrite.

 

[Deleted member 52937]

Thanks @FREAK Your picture of the cute little kittens nuked em. Another casualty coming from the internet and this thread. Clean it up guys.

only kidding. .... maybe.

Only the kitty knows…

 

[Beignet]

There’s plenty of other chit that shows up, but this ain’t the first on a few random froogal searches related to “cat jokes” right meow.

 

[cgasner1]

Only the kitty knows…

Story of my life right there

 

[YoungGun]

I’m going to start a thread on my favorite super secret elk spot, hopefully no one reads it…

....I'm waiting. As are a bunch of podcast "influencers".

 

[Nick87]

Story of my life right there

Ain't that the truth

 

[shines@times]

Ted Nugent

Fair point; though, I had a customer several decades ago whom I assume no one participating on this forum knows or knew who probably exceeded Nugent's lust for blood and was notorious for that trait. Ted Nugent at least wraps his enthusiasm in a cloak of meat-eater spirituality. When that customer of mine came up as the topic of discussion in conversation with another customer in the firearms and archery shop I owned and operated for a decade beginning in late 1970s, the customer telling of the incident related how "E" virtually lit up at the prospect of getting to put down a horse*.

* Too many years have passed for me to recall if the animal was sick and foundered, or just exceedingly old. Either way, it would not have mattered to "E" who was simply thrilled for the opportunity to do the deed.

 

[shines@times]

I’d be okay with that.

I’m going to archive Shine’s snowshoe ram pic first though.

You honor me sir!

Please send hi-res file of you descending through a snowy burn before it disappears! (That is among the most memorable of all the images I have enjoyed on this formidable thread, both the pixel variety and the poetic!)

 

[shines@times]

Or we could try to get unlimited areas opened in CO, ID, NV, and NM, all opening Sept 15th as well, to spread out the pressure since the demand is clearly growing.

That is much more in line with what I had hoped the thread might inspire. I might be about the oldest fart participating here, but I sometimes suspect that I am the most naive despite my distrust of government and bureaucrats. Am trending maudlin and senile probaly. Oh well, at least I ain't rambling on about kids rubbing the hair on my legs!

 

[shines@times]

I got myself in a sketchy spot a few years ago and posted about it here. Took a few years off and have been back at it again last year and this year. I found a sublegal ram in 5 days of hunting last year. Hunted 6 days this year and saw 2 mountain goats.

I remember how that misadventure rattled kad11--was happy to see him get back on the horse.

I'm still rooting hard for several who have hunted dilligently to take their first ram! Never met one of you in person, but consider most of the regulars here to be my friends, even that one guy who shat-up the trail and leaves inspirational messages scrawled in snow.

I would really miss the people who participate in this thread. Personally, I hope you all don't delete the thread or your individual content contributions. I am still naive or optimistic enough to think that the quality of people revealed and the experiences related in this thread might eventually influence game departments to institute similar programs elsewhere. (If tag sales alone are insufficient motivation!)

To any who don't see it the same way: good hunting in the future. It's been sweet sharing the fire!

 

[shines@times]

In other news, the 2nd cat that was taken in three oh three sounds like a real dandy if the pic I saw is indeed that cat. Makes the lambington twine kitten from a few years ago look like it was from Wild Horse Island.

Tough year on the nursery

Have the outfitters relaxed their high standards?