Bear Hunting

[Big_R]

Just curious if anyone has had any success with the bear hunting recently? I haven't been up lately but hopefully I'll get a free day soon and can turn something up. Lets see those pictures if you got em!

 

[Soj51hopeful]

I went out on Sunday. Saw fresh sign, but didn't see any bears. Looks like they were after acorns. I did take a shotgun for midday quail hunting. Got 7 mountain quail.

 

[Weiserbucks]

7 ? YA BABY !

 

[Soj51hopeful]

Got heeeem

 

[Soj51hopeful]

I put a lot of weekends into this. My wife was starting to get a little irritated I've been gone almost every weekend this season (deer, elk and bear) starting late August. Not a Huge bear, but will be a good meat bear. Hiked over 9 miles lots of bushwhacking. Was starting to think the bear tag was going unfilled this year.

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[NECALI]

My wife has a tag and we went out last Sat. morning and Sunday evening. Didn?t even see any fresh tracks. Thinking maybe most of them up here have gone into hibernation. The last I looked they still had about 500 bears left on the quota. I think we're loosing the battle with keeping bears in check. They never should have stopped hound hunting.

 

[Big_R]

Nice bear, I would knock that one down right now also. Just controlling predators at this point! I thought they were all bedded up for the year because I hadn't cut any fresh tracks, but I just walked across some this week. So keep hunting there's still a few walking around.

 

[Soj51hopeful]

Yes, I hunted almost every weekend of November and December. Only came across 1 set of fresh tracks in that time until this hunt. I changed locations every time and covered a lot of good country. This hunt was in new country to me and I just happened to find a pocket of active bears. That bear wasn?t the only one roaming around the area. I found 1 spot a bear turned over a chunk of frozen snow to eat the acorns underneath. It was a struggle to find them but I had a tag and season was open so I'm going!