Category: <span>scouting</span>

Scouting for Black Bear in Southern California 

Last Season vs. This Season Scouting for black bear and pacific-hybrid deer is about to begin for me. I plan on hitting the forests in the next few weeks to put up trail cams, glass for animals and check for sign. I am stoked because I normally wait a little…

Scouting Trip Photos From February (Part 2) Like I said in my prior entry, back in February, my friend Michael and I took a trip down the Cleveland National Forest to do some scouting. Our goal was to explore some new areas, see what game animals we could find and…

Scouting Trip Photos From February (Part 1) Back in February, my friend Michael and I took a trip down the Cleveland National Forest to do some scouting. Our goal was to explore some new areas, see what game animals we could find and to see if we would want to…

Daytripping Down The Trail What has two thumbs and is going after hogs again this weekend? Yepper… This Guy! Sure, I may spend a lot of time and money chasing these bristly, tick-infested balls of muscle, but I love every second of it. For me it’s not all about getting…

Scouting Success Comes With A Price Last Saturday, I met up with my friend Jeff and his buddy Tony. We had a woman telling us about the deer that were eating her roses and she wanted them gone. Knowing that we couldn’t shoot them from her yard, we did a…

First Trail Cam Pics of 2010 (NY State) My dad and brother just set up our new trail cams in NY this weekend and one of them caught this nice spike horn on the first night. By the looks of pic #2 it looks like a spike. I recommended that…

Team DIYbowhunter Scouting For Bear With the black bear archery opener just two days away, I had to share our latest scouting adventure. Eric Welsh, DIYbowhunter.com owner, and I went scouting for a black bear here in Southern California this past Sunday. The video is almost 9 minutes long, but…

Bass Pro Fall Hunt Classic and Bear Scouting We had another successful black bear hunting seminar at Bass Pro Shops on Saturday. We had 20-25 people in the crowd at any given time and it was a great experience being up on the stage sharing about hunting. Eric gave an…

Seminar, Scouting and Target Practice This weekend is looking to be a very busy, yet productive one. I’ll be over at Bass Pro Shops in Rancho Cucamonga tomorrow helping Eric Welsh, Team DIY, with the bear hunting seminar at 4pm. It’s a shorter than normal seminar, so I’ll have to…