点评:**My Experience with Papa Bear Adventures**
I want to share my firsthand experience with Papa Bear during a recent Alaska moose hunt. This is simply my experience and what I personally observed.
We booked our hunt with Renfro’s Alaskan Adventures. Before the hunt, several locals told us that Renfro had been operating in the area for many years, had a large number of repeat hunters, and was very familiar with the country. We also learned that Renfro spends extensive time flying the area and conducting game counts for Alaska Fish and Game. Based on everything we heard and experienced, we felt very confident in the area Renfro selected for us.
We were dropped into a remote area and initially had the kind of isolation we had hoped for on an Alaska moose hunt. There were plenty of bulls in the area, although many were smaller bulls.
Then Papa Bear flew over our camp and dropped hunters approximately **¾ of a mile away from us**. From our camp, we could see the pilot and hunters looking toward us through binoculars. A few days later, another Papa Bear group was dropped approximately **1–1½ miles south of us**. We could also hear shooting relatively close to our camp.
What was particularly frustrating was that after Papa Bear extracted hunters from the area, they subsequently dropped another group of hunters **right back onto the same lake**. For a remote Alaska hunt, having multiple groups concentrated that close together was extremely disappointing. We had traveled a long way and paid a considerable amount of money specifically to experience a remote hunt, not to have multiple hunting camps operating within a mile or so of us.
Our pilot had previously told us where Papa Bear typically put hunters, and based on what we witnessed, it appeared that Papa Bear was using some of the same productive areas that Renfro had identified. I cannot say how they selected our particular location or whether they were using another operator's locator information, so I don't want to speculate. However, the repeated proximity of their camps was very noticeable to us.
We also spoke with other hunters who expressed similar frustrations about Papa Bear putting hunters relatively close together.
To be fair, there were plenty of moose in the country, and despite the additional hunting pressure, **both hunters in our party ultimately harvested two very large bulls later in the hunt**. So this is not a complaint about the quality of the moose or the success of our hunt.
My concern is specifically about **hunter separation and the way hunting areas were being utilized**. In my opinion, dropping multiple groups within such close proximity takes away from the remote wilderness experience that many hunters are paying a substantial amount of money to have.
I'm sharing this because I would have wanted to know about this possibility before booking. This was our personal experience, and other hunters may have had a completely different experience with Papa Bear.
For us, the proximity of the camps was by far the most disappointing part of an otherwise incredible Alaska hunt.
翻译:**我与“熊爸爸探险”的经历**
我想分享一下最近在阿拉斯加猎捕驼鹿时与“熊爸爸探险”团队的亲身经历。以下纯属我的个人体验以及我所亲眼目睹的情况。
我们是通过Renfro’s Alaskan Adventures来预订这次狩猎之旅的。出发前,有好几位当地人告诉我们,Renfro在该地区经营多年,拥有大量回头客,对当地地形也极为熟悉。我们还了解到,伦弗罗会花费大量时间驾机勘察该地区,并为阿拉斯加州渔业与野生动物管理局统计猎物数量。根据我们所听到和经历的一切,我们对伦弗罗为我们挑选的狩猎区域非常有信心。
我们被带到一处偏僻地带,这里完全符合我们对阿拉斯加驼鹿狩猎所期望的与世隔绝的环境。该地区有不少驼鹿雄兽,不过大多数体型较小。随后,“熊爸爸”直升机飞越我们的营地,将猎人们投放到离我们大约**四分之三英里**远的地方。从营地里,我们能看到飞行员和猎人们正用双筒望远镜朝我们这边张望。几天后,另一组“熊爸爸”成员则被投放到我们南面约**1到1.5英里**处。我们还能听到离营地不远处有枪声。
最令人沮丧的是,在“熊爸爸”把猎人们从该地区撤走之后……随后,他们又把另一组猎人送到了**同一个湖边**。对于在阿拉斯加的偏远地区进行狩猎而言,这么多小组都聚集在如此近的距离内实在令人失望至极。我们远道而来,还花了一大笔钱,就是为了体验一次在偏僻之地的狩猎,而不是让好几个狩猎营地都设在离我们仅一英里左右的地方。
我们的飞行员之前曾告诉我们,帕帕熊通常会把猎人安置在何处。而从我们亲眼所见的情况来看……看起来“Papa Bear”使用的有些可狩猎区域正是Renfro所标记的地点。我无法确定他们是如何选定我们的具体位置的,也不清楚他们是否参考了其他狩猎者的定位信息,因此我不想妄加揣测。不过,他们的营地频繁出现在我们附近,这一点我们感受十分明显。
我们还与其他猎人交谈过,他们也同样对“Papa Bear”把各猎人的营地设置得相距较近感到不满。
平心而论,那个地区有大量的驼鹿,尽管狩猎压力有所增大,**但我们一行人中的两名猎人最终都成功猎获了两只体型硕大的公驼鹿**。因此,这并非是对驼鹿品质或我们狩猎成果的抱怨。
我所担忧的,主要是**猎人之间的分散情况以及狩猎区域的使用方式**。在我看来……在如此近的距离内安排多个狩猎团,会破坏那种偏远荒野的体验——而许多猎人正是花钱来寻求这种体验的。
我分享这些是因为如果在预订前能了解到这种可能性,我会非常受益。这只是我们个人的经历,其他猎人或许在Papa Bear组织的活动中会有完全不同的体验。
对我们而言,各个营地之间距离过近,是这次原本极其棒的阿拉斯加狩猎之旅中最令人失望的一点。