What a Week! Our spring bear season started off with a very cold Monday evening sit! We seen a few bears. Tuesday the weather improved and from that point on the week progressed into a very successful hunt! 8 out of 9 – with a 100% opportunity. We could not ask for anything more than…
Start – Stop – Start The start of the season, the end of hibernation, the bears leaving their dens in search of food, has had re-start this year. Some warm weather in mid April had some early bears out on the prowl. Then it turned white, twice. Two Spring snow storms pushed the bears back…
Q: Hi Don. Where are you from and how long have you been hunting big game? I am from Wisconsin around the Green Bay area. I’ve been hunting Whitetails since I’ve been 17 years old. So now I’m 60. So that would be uh 43 years. Big game. Moose, Elk, and Whitetail. It started, my…
We got a little behind in posting our weekly Whitetail season updates so we have combined weeks IV, V, and VI into one summary post. Our 7th Season, as owners, of Chaparral Hunting Adventures is in the books! 2025 was by far our best season yet! As Shelley and I look back on the past…
Week III of our season was also a great success. We were able to bring home 2 great bucks. On day # 1 Craig Weaver was able to start off our week with a bang! Craig was able to put the famous Houdini on the ground. After extensive hours (6 years) hunting Houdini, the saga finally…
The Hunt for Houdini is Over When you follow a deer for 7 years and hunt him hard for 5 of those 7 years it becomes a part of you. I know for some that is hard to understand, but for a Whitetail Deer addict it is very easy to understand. It started in 2019…
This was a big week for big deer at Chaparral. It was also a week that proves our stringent management program is working, and producing big mature Whitetails. 17 year old Cooper started day 1 of week 2 off with a beautiful 150 inch, 7 year old, 270 lbs 8 point we called “Echo”. Taking our…
Buck of the Week 160 inches, eight years old 281 pound Saskatchewan beauty. Week I, muzzleloader week at Chaparral Hunting Adventures, was a great success. We were able to harvest a very good mature Whitetail. Congratulations to Randy Sain! As you can see with the trail cam pictures below, we were, and will be, hunting…
Greg Lavoie of Chaparral Hunting Adventures talks about his Full Service Outfitting business in Saskatchewan offering Whitetail, Black Bear and Fishing. Do you consider Chaparral to be a Full Service Outfitter? We consider our business, our outfitting business, to be definitely a full service outfitter. We offer, you know, transportation right from the get-go from…
Tell me a little about your hunting experience. How long have you been hunting black bear? Well, I’ve been hunting big game since 1980. I guess I’ve been coming uh what I call north to hunt since 1980. I enjoy hunting Mule Deer, Antelope, Whitetail, Elk and Bear and I came to Canada probably 20…