Arizona offers some extraordinary bear hunting with many record book boars harvested every year. We primarily hunt in late summer to early fall August-November. During this time bears are very active during the day time and spend majority of their day exploring for food. Bears come in many unique color phases, black, chocolate, cinnamon, and blonde. On our hunt expect to do a great deal of glassing, walking, and hiking so you must be in shape. These hunts offer a lot of excitement and has a very high success rate. We use three main techniques to harvest our bears, the spot-and-stalk, using an electronic call method, or behind hounds. As our primary hunting technique is behind hounds. On spot n stalk we hike to a good glassing point where a few square miles of terrain can be seen at one time. Once a mature bear is spotted, we plan our stalk. Expect to take rifle shots across big canyons, so a bi-pod or tall standing tripod, good high-power riflescope, and a big, flat-shooting caliber is highly recommended. Rifle shots average 300 yards, but be prepared for any distance (longer or shorter) if the need arrises. If you are a bowhunter, this Arizona spot and stalk bear hunt is the ultimate challenge. As a our third technique, we use electronic call or hand calling. Sometimes black bears prefer to stay in the thick oak brush, dense pinon pines, tall manzantia, prickly pear slopes, and juniper thickets where they eat acorns, pinon nuts, berries, cactus fruit, or juniper berries. These areas have thicker vegetation and allow for limited glassing. If this is where the bears are located at the time of your hunt, we may use limited glassing and use a predator call. This technique is an exciting way to pull a bear out of the brush and within shooting distance. Resident Hunting License ($37) Non-Resident License ($160) Resident OTC-Tag ($25) Non-Resident OTC-Tag ($150) *Until sow harvest limit is reach in open units

Bow Hunting Calling Rifle Hunting Stalking Walk Up With Dogs

Black bear

This is a 5 day hunt and offered for the fall or spring. Deer can be included if you have a tag at no additional charge. Successful fully-guided/outfitted hunters will have their game animal skinned. If the kill is to be mounted we will cape it for the taxidermist. If you decide to use our taxidermist we will take your cape to him after the hunt is over. The game meat will be quartered for your transport. It is suggested that you take your game meat home if you are successful. You will have one of two choices. One is to take the meat to an Arizona butcher, and after it is processed (usually about two weeks) you can have it shipped next day air. This can be costly, and you will need to set up a FedEx or UPS account, which is very easy to do on-line. Second option is to take the quartered game meat in a cooler with dry ice on the airplane as extra baggage. The typical airline fee for this is approximately $75 per cooler plus any additional overweight charges. It would be best for the hunter to decide how the game meat and trophy will be handled beforehand so arrangements can be made.

Bow Hunting Hunting From A Blind Mountain Hunting Rifle Hunting Stalking

Black bear

This is a 5 day hunt and offered for the fall or spring. Deer can be included if you have a tag at no additional charge. Successful fully-guided/outfitted hunters will have their game animal skinned. If the kill is to be mounted we will cape it for the taxidermist. If you decide to use our taxidermist we will take your cape to him after the hunt is over. The game meat will be quartered for your transport. It is suggested that you take your game meat home if you are successful. You will have one of two choices. One is to take the meat to an Arizona butcher, and after it is processed (usually about two weeks) you can have it shipped next day air. This can be costly, and you will need to set up a FedEx or UPS account, which is very easy to do on-line. Second option is to take the quartered game meat in a cooler with dry ice on the airplane as extra baggage. The typical airline fee for this is approximately $75 per cooler plus any additional overweight charges. It would be best for the hunter to decide how the game meat and trophy will be handled beforehand so arrangements can be made.

Bow Hunting Hunting From A Blind Mountain Hunting Rifle Hunting Stalking

Black bear