- So on this trip, I selected the VX five
HD for our rifle scope.
It's a three to 15 by 44, 44 millimeter objective.
It's got our custom dial system on it, you know,
it's range dial, chute, lightning fast system, perfect
for a lot of hunts across really all of North America.
We also had our VX four range, HD range finding binoculars,
fantastic little range set of range, finding binoculars,
the absolute best in their price class,
the range finding system with lightning fast, you know,
you're, you're not gonna find one faster
and the display is crystal clear.
Fantastic for an environment like this
where sometimes it's like you get on a bear
really quick and you've just gotta range it.
You know, you don't want to, you don't wanna have
to put your binders down and get your rangefinder back up.
Look for, look for the target again.
You can just throw it up in your,
in your range finding binocular.
Then we had the SX four Pro,
I hd spotting scope in this case, the 15 to 45.
Excellent little spotter. Light enough
to be packed around this kind of country.
Let you get a closeup look, you know,
find the bear you're looking for all.
And that sits on our, our alpine tripod.
Super lightweight, perfect for the back country hunter.
So it's just, it's, we set, I set these guys up
and I set myself up with, you know, some
of the best stuff in loopholes lineup.
And it, it absolutely performed out here.
- So one of the reasons why we're even here on this hunt is
we we're coming out with a new ex bolt, ex bolt two,
and we're pretty excited about it.
And we wanted to take it into one of the most extreme hunts
that we could do with it and, and really put it to the test.
The one, the model we're using on this trip is the,
the Exalt Pro McMillan.
And some of the real cool features about it
that really make it worthwhile on a,
on a grizzly bear hunt like this is we're using
a, a McMillan stock.
So it's a carbon fiber stock with,
with a carbon fiber wrapped barrel, which is really unique
and a new for us as well.
So it's a perfect setup for an Alaska hunt.
It's built for the weather. So it really kind of fit that,
what we were looking for for a, for a test hunt.
And some of the other features
that we're really excited about in this,
this gun is the trigger for starters.
It now has the DLX trigger in it,
which has been traditionally in our target guns.
And, and so it's a real crisp trigger.
It's on a multi-level trigger system
that, that we use on that.
And it's really consistent.
The other great thing about it is the way we've redesigned
the, the receiver of the bolt
and the way there's an kind of an anti D feature in
that we're more surface area on
that receiver touching the bolt.
So you don't get that binding as you're, you're cycling back
and forth and when you're hunting grizzly bears, man,
you want as fast a follow up shots as you can get.
We put this to the test
and really impressed with how this worked and operated
and really can't wait to use this in, in other environments,
not just here in Alaska.
- So the next day, 6:00 PM weather broke,
we grabbed our gear, it was raining just a little bit,
so we were wadered up and wearing rain gear still,
but it was a light enough rain.
We were like, we're on it, we're going back up.
We're hunting.
- Yeah, we've been stuck in the tents all day today, dealing
with some bad weather.
It's been pretty rainy
and fogged in, so everybody's excited to get out
and do a nice evening hunt.
Yeah, get up the hill over here where we went yesterday
and see if we can spot a bear.
Yeah, put another st on
- Bear number two - Tonight. Bear number two.
- Got one down. Just a couple more to go right?
- Yes sir. - Heading back up to go glass.
It hit a little different because
after Skipper tagged out, I knew it was kind of like I'm up
to bat and if the nerves I felt while I was watching Skipper
put his stalk on, if any of that had stayed with me, I
had no idea how this was gonna play out.
We get up on the knob, we're glassing,
we cook up some mountain house
because we're planning to stay out all the way till
dark gets dark.
11, 11 30.
And we were gonna stay all the way till dark
'cause the bears move, you know, later in the evenings.
So that's what we were prepared for
a couple hours into it, we spot a bear.
Bears swimming across the river.
Looked like a really good bear. A bear.
We had seen the first day we were out here that we wanted
to get on, but just didn't have an opportunity to do it.
Josh looked at me and said, let's go man.
I have never been more nervous in my life.
This bear was gonna be up close and personal.
So we're going through the alders.
Josh turns and looks at me
and says, Hey, we could jump it in here if we do
and it stands up, shoot it.
Okay, here we go. We're getting nervous. Thanks a lot Josh.
We come out, Josh sees it,
he's like, all right, it's right here.
Step out and shoot it. I'm ready.
I'm following it, I'm following it.
And Josh starts doing a little mouse squeak to try
and get to stop it turns and stops.
I let it go.
- Shoot him again. Shoot him again.
- Get up, get up, shoot him again.
What's I'm talking about, bro Oh my god. Such a big bear.
Woo,
- Dude.
I mean that's one of the coolest things about bear hunting
right there is, you know,
you go from sitting in a tent all fricking day long, right?
You know, just getting beat up by rain
and then you come out here, you're completely calm,
you're just kind of looking far off, you know,
you're not working like you're not busting
and getting that adrenaline dump throughout the day.
And then you see a bear like that
and it's just, you know, all
of a sudden this just giant dump, this just giant rush legs.
Start shaking. But, oh man, that was amazing.
That was so cool. So, so cool. Congratulations man.
Dude, thank you. Appreciate it. Amazing.
That was one of the coolest things of my life right there.
That was, wow, that was incredible.
And man, we were just ecstatic on this bear.
Just absolutely beautiful bear dark chocolate coat,
silver tips that these grizzly bears get a
really mature bear.
Large, you know, it was so cool to see him.