Hello,

I hope you're all having a good summer...fall hunting season is just around the corner.  I'm looking forward to guiding several moose hunts this fall.  It should be a great whitetail season as well since the easy winters have just kept on coming and deer numbers/age structure is in great shape.  There are still thousands of nonresident deer tags available and I have a few openings for rut hunts still open.  I have an opening for one hunter during Thanksgiving week (arrival 11/18, departure 11/25).  The only problem is that I'm out of beds in the bunkhouse that week so I'd set you up with a comfortable motel room about 10 miles away.

This year is unusual in that there is a full week of deer hunting available after Thanksgiving week.  I started out not selling hunts for that week because I normally need to be in Montana for lion season November 30th, but then the Montana Dept. of Fish, Wildlife and Parks shot all the outfitters in the foot by eliminating the quota system and initiating a drawing system in which nonresidents have a very slim chance of getting a tag.  Consequently I will be able to have whitetail hunters here in Idaho for the last week of deer season and I will be able to book lion hunters for the opening of the Idaho lion season for the first time in quite a few years.  I can still take 2 deer hunters for that week (arrival 11/25, departure 12/2).  Since lion season begins the day after deer season ends it would be possible to book a combo hunt with your lion hunt beginning immediately after your deer hunt.  Or if you're just interested in lions that opening week of the season is still available since I had been holding it open for the Montana hunt that turned out to be nonexistent! 

I have a variety of dates available throughout the winter for bobcat/lion hunts and I'm looking forward to getting some good use out of the additional territory I purchased last year.  Much of it is in low-snow/winter-range type country which resulted in it being mostly unhuntable last winter.  I've placed my order for a good winter this year though so I'm expecting great things!  Some locals have been telling me about recent lion sightings which is also encouraging.

The bear hunts for next spring are nearly booked but I do still have a few openings for baited or spot and stalk style hunts.

I've been keeping busy and mostly out of trouble this summer by cruising timber in eastern Washington and right around home here in north Idaho.  Inbetween crusing I've been stretching my limited carpentry skills to the max by rebuilding the deck, log stairs and log railing on the house as well as trying to lay up a pile of firewood for this good winter I've got ordered!  Hope you're all doing well and if you have any questions or if you'd rather not be receiving this newsletter just drop me a line.

Clint Gray
Buckshot Outfitting
208-267-3885
www.buckshotoutfitting.com