All From Camp
Bear Hunting Magazine|March - April 2020
Do-it-yourself Alaskan arctic bear hunt amongst friends. You can do a lot right from camp.
Paul Atkins
All From Camp

People think I’m crazy; family members, friends, even strangers have told me so. I’m originally from Oklahoma and people back home just aren’t used to the Alaskan way of life. They think I’ve lost my mind. You think it would have something to do with living in Alaska, roughing it out in the Arctic, where cold and darkness are a normal way of life, but it isn’t. The thing they can’t comprehend is my infatuation with hunting bears.

I haven’t always had it, but over the 20-plus years I’ve been in Alaska, it’s become an increasing craze every year. It’s not only me. My best bud Lew has the fever as well. We just absolutely love it! There is no simple reason why. I guess the passion came from a procession of time and places, even certain circumstances that brought us to what is now a serious addiction.

In the old days, seeing a grizzly was like seeing a ghost or some kind of alien being, especially during the spring months. Fall was a little different, seeing a bear was more common, especially along the rivers and streams where the fish came to die. I remember how amazing it was for me personally to see a bear. Far off in the distance usually, but it was still amazing.

Things started to change several years ago when our trips each fall for moose and caribou became bear sightseeing tours. Most of those sightings occurred in places where we hadn’t seen bears before, which we thought at the time was very cool, minus bringing any meat home.

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