If you opt for a truly large brownie, I strongly feel that you should hunt the first SPRING hunt available.
The leaves are off the alders allowing for better glassing and the days are much longer in length.
The biggest boars are generally the first to come out of their dens if you go later, you will see more bears, but you will see smaller ones and might be tempted to shoot something less than what you are after.
Also if you go later, you will see rubbed bears that you will truly regret shooting.

Hunt Kodiak Island or the south
western most part of the Alaskan peninsula.
Forget about southeast Alaska, they just
don't regularly produce bears that compete with the best from Kodiak or the Peninsula.

I hunted my big bear with Brian Peterson.

http://www.ugakbay.com/

He is a very honest, hard working guide with a real
honey hole on Kodiak.
He was very reasonably priced at the time.
He offers a 14 day hunt!
Brian was on the board of directors of the Alaska Professional hunter's Assn.
He has MANY years of guiding under his belt


I took my 10 footer with Brian Peterson (907) 783-1886 Girdwood, AK 99587
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Other great Kodiak choices would be:

http://www.huntalaska.com/

Choice #1 is Scott Mileur Truly a legendary guide on Kodiak,
Most honest, tough, hard working guy you will ever meet
PERIOD.
LOTS of GIANT bears under his belt.
He hunts the legendary area of Olga Bay where Pinnell & Talifson trained him. He too offers a 14 day
hunt for the price. (VERY IMPORTANT!)
I would go with Scott if my life depended on killing
a giant brown bear.

Friend of mine killed a nice 9'9 bear with Scott and got to meet Morris Talifson many years ago.
I know Scott and have talked to him for many years at the different hunting conventions.
HE IS SUPERB.
I would have gone with him but I just couldn't afford it at the time.


Dennis Harms is a stand up guy with lots of big bears under his belt.

http://www.alaskakodiakbearhuntingsafaris.com/

Dick Rohrer is a Kodiak legend, his son Sam has taken over..

http://www.kodiakbearcamp.com/hunting.html

Alaska Peninsula...

Butch King

http://www.wildmanlodge.com/Hunting%20Photos%202006.htm

Has taken TONS of monster bears, but his hunts are short and he runs a lot of hunters through his area,
but he does really well.

R&R guide service does a bang up job on Unimak Island as well.

http://www.rrhunting.com/unimak-brown-bear/

Train like you were going sheep hunting, you won't be sorry.

I hope you can obtain one of these hunts.
They are adventures of a lifetime, you will never regret it.

Good Luck.


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