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Dry-Run
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Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2008 01:41 am |
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 Crap!!!! Sorry guys if this is a duplicate, somehow I managed to loose
my first post between spell checker and preview so here we go once more.
I'am fixing to go to the Clearwater area of Idaho for a spring bait bear
hunt. I've been out hunting for the last 4 years but never saw one to even
try and shoot at. What do you all think would be the best set up. I'll be
hunting with a variety of baits including meat scraps. To use a 55gal
drum, or a pit covered with heavy logs. Some things I've thought about is
the constant rain they get at this time of year, the fact that the wolves
are in the area. I plan on putting out about 150 pounds of baits out about
once every 4-5 days depending on how and what cleans it up. Also would
a tree stand be better or would a ground stand be better. Also
I plan on hunting alone. Once The lay-out is right I'm
thinking of using a 12ga and pack my 44mag. incase we
get into hand to hand combat
I hope this hunt goes well, I think I've covered all the bases
and plan to go scout out general area in acouple of weeks.
Look forward to your advice----Dry-Run
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brucet
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Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2008 01:51 am |
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Dry-Run wrote: What do you all think would be the best set up. I'll be
hunting with a variety of baits including meat scraps. To use a 55gal
drum, or a pit covered with heavy logs. Some things I've thought about is
the constant rain they get at this time of year, the fact that the wolves
are in the area. I plan on putting out about 150 pounds of baits out about
once every 4-5 days depending on how and what cleans it up. Also would
a tree stand be better or would a ground stand be better.Look forward to your advice----Dry-Run
With the wolves in the area I'd skip the meat.I don't use any meat at all on all my bear baits and I run around 25 to 30 baits.I use all sweets such as pastrys and doughnuts.Both a 55 gallon drum and a pit with heavy logs work well.If you have a ways to go I would not bother to carry the drum a long ways and go with the logs.I would go with the tree stand as you can see better and the higher you get off the ground the less scent you have that can reach the bear.Know your winds most common in the area and set up your stand so your scent blows away from the bait.The 12 gauge with slugs should work fine and I'd set your stand 40 yards from the bait.Good luck hope, you get one.
Last edited on Sun Jan 20th, 2008 01:52 am by brucet
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brucet
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Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2008 01:53 am |
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| Any color phase bear in your area that your going to be hunting in? Last edited on Sun Jan 20th, 2008 01:53 am by brucet
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Dry-Run
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Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2008 02:04 am |
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brucet: Yes there's about a 50-50 per cent of a color other than black. Once I can get this computer tamed I'll try to send a pic of a really nice blonde. I'm hoping for a really red cinnamon for my 1st bear. But it better have some size or I'll have to pass on it an let it grow up.
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brucet
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Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2008 02:08 am |
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Dry-Run wrote: brucet: Yes there's about a 50-50 per cent of a color other than black. Once I can get this computer tamed I'll try to send a pic of a really nice blonde.I'm hoping for a really red cinnamon for my 1st bear. But it better have some size or I'll have to pass on it an let it grow up.
Dry-Run
I'd love to get a blonde bear.No color phase bear at all here in Maine.We get a few with white on their chest or sometimes a white v on their chest.
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Dry-Run
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Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2008 02:17 am |
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brucet: Here you go,one nice blonde to keep you warm at night
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brucet
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Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2008 03:03 am |
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Dry-Run wrote: brucet: Here you go,one nice blonde to keep you warm at night
Dry-Run
Thanks.What a pretty bear.
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firedawg226
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Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2008 04:00 am |
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brucet wrote: Dry-Run wrote: brucet: Yes there's about a 50-50 per cent of a color other than black. Once I can get this computer tamed I'll try to send a pic of a really nice blonde.I'm hoping for a really red cinnamon for my 1st bear. But it better have some size or I'll have to pass on it an let it grow up.
Dry-Run
I'd love to get a blonde bear.No color phase bear at all here in Maine.We get a few with white on their chest or sometimes a white v on their chest.
Our bears are like that here, some with a white patch or V on the chest. Is that because or part of genetics of black bear, or a possible hold over gene from a croos-breed down the line? It is rare in Ga. to see a totally black bear.
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wyohunter
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Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2008 01:50 pm |
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| I like using meat in my barrels. I use beaver carcasses and I stop by the butcher shop and get there left overs. If you're working a new site, buy a whole fryer chicken and put it in a potato sack and hang it up in a tree and let it rot. I think the use of game cameras are essential to see what and when a bear is coming in. I put my sites in very thick cover and I use climbing tree stands. Because of the heavy cover, I'm only about ten yards from from the barrel and as high as I can get in the tree.
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brucet
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Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2008 02:58 pm |
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wyohunter wrote: I like using meat in my barrels. I use beaver carcasses and I stop by the butcher shop and get there left overs. If you're working a new site, buy a whole fryer chicken and put it in a potato sack and hang it up in a tree and let it rot. I think the use of game cameras are essential to see what and when a bear is coming in. I put my sites in very thick cover and I use climbing tree stands. Because of the heavy cover, I'm only about ten yards from from the barrel and as high as I can get in the tree. Do the bear eat alot of the meat at your baits?I was wondering as here the bear seam to eat just a little and leave alot of it.My father at one time got his hands on alot of chicken and we tried that and the bear hardly touched it.That and it called in so many coyotes I don't like to use meat.I'm taking that you have alot of luck with the meat as I'm wondering if bear act diffrently in diffrent states.
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brucet
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Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2008 03:00 pm |
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| The most important thing is wind direction and holding still in your stand.If you have to move your hands or head make sure you do it slowly.
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wyohunter
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Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2008 04:53 pm |
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| I have found the bear here love meat. I have filled a 55 gal barrel and in 2 days its gone. That's when I have 3-4 bear coming in. I will put a 40lb frozen beaver in the barrel and its gone the next day. The opening in the bottom of the barrel is not big enough for the beaver, so he has torn it into to get it out. I did not have any luck with bread at all. I save table scraps all year and they love those. I've put a chicken up high in a tree to let the wind carry the odor and the bear will climb the tree to get to it. In the spring I find deer hair in there scat. When I use butcher shop scraps, the more the maggots the better. Out of curiosity I put out a salt block to see what they would do. When I went back I could see teeth marks where they took a big bite out of it. I think getting as high as you can in the trees really helps and I'm talking 20 feet plus.
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wyohunter
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Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2008 05:02 pm |
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| I take an old shirt that have have worn for a couple days into a site that is being hit. I place it on the tree that I will be hunting in. I feel no matter what you do the bear knows your there by smell alone. So if they get use to your smell the better. When I bait at a site I never wear gloves and I will not do anything to hide my scent.
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brucet
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Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2008 06:33 pm |
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wyohunter wrote: I have found the bear here love meat. I have filled a 55 gal barrel and in 2 days its gone. That's when I have 3-4 bear coming in. I will put a 40lb frozen beaver in the barrel and its gone the next day. The opening in the bottom of the barrel is not big enough for the beaver, so he has torn it into to get it out. I did not have any luck with bread at all. I save table scraps all year and they love those. I've put a chicken up high in a tree to let the wind carry the odor and the bear will climb the tree to get to it. In the spring I find deer hair in there scat. When I use butcher shop scraps, the more the maggots the better. Out of curiosity I put out a salt block to see what they would do. When I went back I could see teeth marks where they took a big bite out of it. I think getting as high as you can in the trees really helps and I'm talking 20 feet plus. Up here in Maine the bear would eat a little of the chicken and leave the rest.The only baits it got eaten up was when a bear would open it up and the coyotes would clean it up or if the coyotes managed to dig under the logs and get it.I have never tried beaver at a bear bait so don't know how the bear would like it up here.For the longest time Frank would put chicken in those red onion sacks and hang it on a tree by the bear baits.The bear hardly ever touched it.the bugs would end up eating it all leaving the bones in the bags.Bear kill alot of fawns in the spring.
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brucet
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Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2008 06:39 pm |
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wyohunter wrote: I take an old shirt that have have worn for a couple days into a site that is being hit. I place it on the tree that I will be hunting in. I feel no matter what you do the bear knows your there by smell alone. So if they get use to your smell the better. When I bait at a site I never wear gloves and I will not do anything to hide my scent. Do you have any luck doing the shirt thing with a big bear?I know the big bear around here once they catch the scent of a person up in a tree they are gone.I agree with you on not wearing gloves as I never do.I want the bear getting used to my scent on the bait as you can't stop that.In the same token I don't want to leave much scent around the bait so I get the bait dumped,logs back in place and get out of there.I don't go walking around looking for bear sign like some guys I know.
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