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Hunt_Hard and everybody - I been steadily hunting bears both seasons for 4 years now with no luck at all... Seems like the guys that do kill bear kill them every year... Any pointers or common mistakes that are made?
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I know for me scouting makes all the difference. The main thing you have to look for in fall in food sources, because this is all the bears are thinking about. I walk miles to find the thickest berry patches in the woods and it never fails. Look for old abandoned homesteads with fruit trees, berry patches, rock slides (they eat moths in rocks), and wetlands with abundant grass. I personally dont like to wait for the bear to come to me I normally glass and walk around until I stumble across one. Good Luck!
Food and water. I see bears occasionally where I hunt deer, between acorns and standing water. When PA started a limited-area extended bear season that overlapped deer season, I casually got a tag. After a morning on stand in the rain, I took a walk, thinking about where the deer would be bedded. Passing over an unfamiliar stretch, I came face to face with a small black bear. We were both plenty surprised, but the bear reacted first, spun and ran off through the brush. I remembered I could shoot it too late. I was feeling a little down about it, but the next morning I got my biggest buck, and the morning after that, a bear had been dining at the gut pile. I started to follow the tracks in the snow, but just then my buddy got his biggest buck, so I broke it off to help him drag it out. It seemed like enough to celebrate. I got another bear tag this year, and hope to get out in the statewide season (DURING the work-week -thanks, PA), with no deer to cloud my thoughts.
any corn fields around? Apple trees? If you have get your a$$ out there. Went bear hunting this past weekend and seen my buddies, we got 2 on sat and 1 on sun. When I left sunday we already harvest 9 bears in 5 days and the biggest one was 543 dressed out!!
The bear can smell so keep fresh of scent. Any ? ask
sorry biggest one was 525 and next one was 443/442
Stay scent free as best you can. Scout food sources and look for sign, freshly broken oak limbs laying on the ground acorns removed, fresh scat flipped over rocks and tracks near water holes. This will tell you bear are in the area and maybe setting a stand in this area may produce a bear if you put in the time.
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I know for me scouting makes all the difference. The main thing you have to look for in fall in food sources, because this is all the bears are thinking about. I walk miles to find the thickest berry patches in the woods and it never fails. Look for old abandoned homesteads with fruit trees, berry patches, rock slides (they eat moths in rocks), and wetlands with abundant grass. I personally dont like to wait for the bear to come to me I normally glass and walk around until I stumble across one. Good Luck!
Food and water. I see bears occasionally where I hunt deer, between acorns and standing water. When PA started a limited-area extended bear season that overlapped deer season, I casually got a tag. After a morning on stand in the rain, I took a walk, thinking about where the deer would be bedded. Passing over an unfamiliar stretch, I came face to face with a small black bear. We were both plenty surprised, but the bear reacted first, spun and ran off through the brush. I remembered I could shoot it too late. I was feeling a little down about it, but the next morning I got my biggest buck, and the morning after that, a bear had been dining at the gut pile. I started to follow the tracks in the snow, but just then my buddy got his biggest buck, so I broke it off to help him drag it out. It seemed like enough to celebrate. I got another bear tag this year, and hope to get out in the statewide season (DURING the work-week -thanks, PA), with no deer to cloud my thoughts.
any corn fields around? Apple trees? If you have get your a$$ out there. Went bear hunting this past weekend and seen my buddies, we got 2 on sat and 1 on sun. When I left sunday we already harvest 9 bears in 5 days and the biggest one was 543 dressed out!!
The bear can smell so keep fresh of scent. Any ? ask
sorry biggest one was 525 and next one was 443/442
Stay scent free as best you can. Scout food sources and look for sign, freshly broken oak limbs laying on the ground acorns removed, fresh scat flipped over rocks and tracks near water holes. This will tell you bear are in the area and maybe setting a stand in this area may produce a bear if you put in the time.
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