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blackbear
Joined: 08 Jul 2007
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Location: Northern Minnesota
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject: Bear Attractant |
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| What bear attractant works best for you ? |
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numbnutz
Joined: 06 Sep 2007
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Location: portland,oregon
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| i live in oregon where we cant use bait or hounds anymore, so we have to either spot and stalk or use predator calls, in the spring a fawn in distress call works pretty good and in the fall rabbit calls work ok, we can harvest up to 3 bears here a year, it just sucks we cant cant bait because of tree hugging hippies who dont understand hunting, what part of minnestoa are you from? I grew up near duluth and eveleth and int falls |
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blackbear
Joined: 08 Jul 2007
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Location: Northern Minnesota
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:17 am Post subject: |
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| About an hour south of Frostbite Falls. |
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numbnutz
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Location: portland,oregon
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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| what do you use to attract bears? people out here will use bacon for trail cams and odfw uses bacon to study bears, so out here bacon works very well |
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blackbear
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Location: Northern Minnesota
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Pretty much anything that smells sweet or grease. I can't say for certain yet but I suspect that big bores will remember bait site smells where they encountered a hunter in previous years. They may abandon that site and even sites with the same scent permanently or at best hit it only at night. If this is true it would be best to use different scent and different bait at these sites to draw the big boars back in to that particular bait site. Many of the big boars shot by hunters are taken at new bait sites. This is why I wondered about different / new scents. |
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Redhawk1
Joined: 20 Feb 2008
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Location: Delaware
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:37 am Post subject: |
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| bacon :thumbsup1: |
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walksinair
Joined: 22 Mar 2008
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Location: Wisconsin
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Bacon Greese candy any thing sweet Bacon Bits work to they love those. |
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Bundy
Joined: 03 Aug 2007
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Location: Massachusetts
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:18 am Post subject: Bear Attractant |
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Anything sweet smelling will work. I use maple syrup over donuts, they chow on the donuts and track the syrup all over the trails. We have some trail cam photos of leaves stuck all over the bears where they sat to eat at the bait station.
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North Idaho Hunter
Joined: 13 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| I am getting some mixed feed back in regards to my 270 being adequate to kill a bear. My bait site is only about 30 yards from my stand. Any thoughts on if my old 270 will do the trick? |
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blackbear
Joined: 08 Jul 2007
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Location: Northern Minnesota
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 6:59 am Post subject: |
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| Does anyone use commercial bear attractant? |
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ADKBEAR
Joined: 16 Sep 2003
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Location: Central NY
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 10:13 am Post subject: |
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North Idaho Hunter wrote: I am getting some mixed feed back in regards to my 270 being adequate to kill a bear. My bait site is only about 30 yards from my stand. Any thoughts on if my old 270 will do the trick?
If you can hit what you aim at and know where to shoot a bear the 270 is going to kill a bear just as good as a 338. I have taken bear with cals below 30.
117 gr out of a 257 Roberts
150 gr out of a 30-30
I would not sudgest a bullet weight less than 150 gr unless you are a REALLY good shot. The fact is a black bear does not die hard with a well placed shot! The 270 is plunty of gun :thumbsup1: |
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blackbear
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I will never use a .270 on Black Bear over bait again. They are not made for 30 yard shots through heavy muscle and thick bone. On small bear almost any legal caliber will work but on mature boars they may not. Why take a chance on loosing the trophy of a lifetime. |
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GBoyd
Joined: 24 Oct 2007
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Location: Puyallup, WA / Grand Rapids, MI
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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Really?
You're saying a 270 isn't enough for black bear?
I've always used a 30-30 for bear and this is in Washington where we can't bait and so we have less of a chance for the perfect profile or quartering away shot. I think any of the cartridges that you'd use for a larger deer, and definitely any elk cartridge would be enough. |
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blackbear
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:59 am Post subject: |
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| GBoyd, No. |
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Redhawk1
Joined: 20 Feb 2008
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Location: Delaware
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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North Idaho Hunter wrote: I am getting some mixed feed back in regards to my 270 being adequate to kill a bear. My bait site is only about 30 yards from my stand. Any thoughts on if my old 270 will do the trick?
If you are a reloader get a good constructed bullet, stay away from a bullet that opens up to fast. A poorly constructed bullet can turn a good bear hunt bad. Personally I would use a Barnes bullet.
The 270 will work, but I prefer big holes. The smaller holes from rifles under 30 caliber can get clogged with fat and making it hard to find blood sigh.
But if you are going to use the 270, get a good bullet.
My favorite long gun for bear is my Marlin GG in 45-70 and 405 gr. hard cast bullets. |
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