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Saskatchewan River Tent Camp

This is an exciting five-day remote tent camp hunt on the Saskatchewan River.  Your trip originates out of The Pas, Manitoba where we pick you up.  From here we travel 30 miles up river (approx. one hour and thirty minutes) to our tent camp site.  Accommodations include sleeping in comfortable wood stove heated tents, solar showers, out-house and cooking tent with outside canopy (all meals are provided for you).  You will be asked to provide your own sleeping bag and towels.  Hunters become very involved in this hunt helping bait sites and checking out the area each day after breakfast.  Bears are very active during this early hunt on the river making this an exhilarating, hands-on black bear hunt that you won't forget.  We take four to six hunters per week for two weeks in May.

   

               River Camp                                 Cook Tent                                 Sleeping Tents

        River Hunt packages $2200.00/person

General Information ...
Each hunter is allowed to harvest one bear (no females accompanied by cubs) and may use rifles of .270 caliber or larger, slug guns, muzzleloaders or bows at 50 lbs. or more.  The weather is unpredictable during this time of    year and we recommend that everyone bring rain gear, warm clothes and rubber boots as well as your personal gear which should include a small flashlight.  Hunter orange is not required and camouflage is recommended.  Hunters are asked to provide coolers for your bears cape & meat and of course your weapon and ammunition. Bear tag, skinning, quartering, baiting, stands and freezing are included with our hunts. Contact us for exact season dates and availability.

Bear Wounding Policy ...
    If you wound a bear and it is not recovered you can continue your hunt but you will remain at the same bait on which you wounded the bear.  Our baits usually have multiple bears on them, so remaining there is not all bad.  You may have the opportunity at getting a second shot at  your wounded bear as he may return to that bait.  If you wound a second bear, sorry your bear hunt is over.
    After you have shot your bear, you and your guide will do a preliminary search.  If the bear is not found, you will return to camp with the guide and at this time it will be decided whether to go back out that night to search or go out early the next day.  Remember, after you hit a bear you must know where you saw him last.  This makes the search safer and easier.  If we go back out to search, the guides will be the only ones carrying firearms for safety purposes.  When you shoot a bear we need a very important 2 lung shot to kill him almost instantly. 
 
                

 

Contact Information:
P.O. Box 119                                                          Toll Free: 1-866-449-4726
Cranberry Portage, MB                                       Phone: 204-472-3167   
Canada   R0B 0H0                                                email: elbow@mts.net