Keith Eberly's Bear Hunt

Bear Hunting in Alberta



I just came back from a bear hunt in Alberta Canada with Mike’s Outfitting. It was incredible, cool evenings, warm days, a little rain, everything was perfect. The first night out I had a very large Black bear come into the bait about 10 minutes after Mike dropped me off at the stand. The bear never really gave me a good shot, after he left it must have been okay for the rest of the bears to come in through out the evening I saw several more and at one time I counted 10 (different) bears in the vicinity of my stand. This was pretty exciting especially when there is a sow and 3 yearling cubs at the bait wanting to visit you in your tree stand. 

The second night was payday. After the same sow and cubs from the night before left, here he came, a large chocolate bear. He walked in cautiously check us out in the stand and walked directly to the bait, gave me a perfect broadside shot, so I took him. He ran about 60 yards before he came down. He had a 19-3/16” skull and squared at 7’ 6”, just an awesome bear.

Please note I hunt mostly deer and hogs back in Texas. To take a bear of this magnitude was a great experience. I had four nights to hunt still and I felt like I had already filled my tag. 

Three nights later I was in a different stand, not much activity until 10:10 pm when this bruiser of a black bear came strolling in, he was large that’s all I can say. At first I thought it was a sow, but he had long front legs, large front paws, I decided he was a bore and to take him. He gave me a perfect broad side shot and was down within 30 yards.

His skull was 18-9/16” and he squared at 6’9”, he was an old bear with gray hairs and yellow worn teeth.

At this point I felt like the luckiest person on earth. I had just taken two Pope and Young size bears in the same trip. I used my Mathews Drenalin bow on both bears with Muzzy 115 grain broadheads, perfection at its best!!!



Keith Eberly

Weatherford Texas

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