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billythekidrock
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Location: OlyWa
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| Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Wayne Carlton's "They come to eat" dvd is a great primer for calling bears. |
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Redhawk1
Joined: 20 Feb 2008
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Location: Delaware
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| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:51 am Post subject: |
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billythekidrock wrote: Wayne Carlton's "They come to eat" dvd is a great primer for calling bears.
I ordered the DVD and a few calls today from all predator calls.com.
I will give it a try on my land in WV, seeings how I can't use bait.
http://www.allpredatorcalls.com/ |
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blackbear
Joined: 08 Jul 2007
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Location: Northern Minnesota
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| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Billy, Do you sell the calls you make? |
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billythekidrock
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| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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No, I gave some away and every once in a while I give them as donations.
Look up Bearmanric on almost any major board. He makes great custom calls. I have and use some regularly. |
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Redhawk1
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:36 am Post subject: |
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billythekidrock wrote: No, I gave some away and every once in a while I give them as donations.
Look up Bearmanric on almost any major board. He makes great custom calls. I have and use some regularly.
I accept donations...lol :laugh:
Now you got me interested in calling.
I know on my land in WV, there is a big bear that come's in on occasion to my camper. I have claw marks on my spare tire and teeth marks on the tires on the camper. I also have a salt block out for deer and the bear chewed on the plastic rain guard I made for it. I have a couple of nice teeth impressions in it. I found two sets of different teeth prints, one measures just under 2 1/2 and the other is a smaller bear the measures just under 2 inches. The measurements are from canine to canine.
I have a skull of my 175 pound bear I shot in Canada and the canine measurement is right at 2 inches, so the 2 1/2 in bite mark has to be a bigger bear. |
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45super
Joined: 29 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the info everyone. I`m leaning toward the Paul Bunion area. Does anybody hunt this area? |
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blackbear
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Location: Northern Minnesota
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Paul Bunyan is not an area. What town is nearby, Bemidji? |
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billythekidrock
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:19 am Post subject: |
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This one would be hard to measure the canines. It had the 6 middle teeth, but no upper canines. It was about 200 lbs and probably 3-5 years old. The canines just never developed.
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numbnutz
Joined: 06 Sep 2007
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Location: portland,oregon
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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Billy,
I'm spring bear hunting in oregon, I have a primos electronic call, Have you ever used one or know if it would work, i also have manual calls but wanted to try the electronic this year. any ideas? |
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billythekidrock
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Quote: Billy,
I'm spring bear hunting in oregon, I have a primos electronic call, Have you ever used one or know if it would work, i also have manual calls but wanted to try the electronic this year. any ideas?
What sounds does it have? I am sure it would work fine if you have bears in the area. Just make sure to call for a min. of one hour.
Last fall I purchased a FoxPro Scorpion with some fawn and calf distress and I plan on recording my own sounds as well. I get bored calling sometimes. |
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45super
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| I`m thinking about the Paul Bunyan State Forest. Close to Walker, Mn. |
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blackbear
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Bear opener is September 1st. About September 15th. archery deer season and small game seasons open. Chances of taking a bear drop way down once the archery and grouse hunters hit the woods. |
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numbnutz
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:28 am Post subject: |
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What sounds does it have? I am sure it would work fine if you have bears in the area. Just make sure to call for a min. of one hour.
Last fall I purchased a FoxPro Scorpion with some fawn and calf distress and I plan on recording my own sounds as well. I get bored calling sometimes
Billy,
it has a fawn distress, rodent, rabbit, and howl, I'm hopeing it works, my plan was to set it up near an opening close to a bush and tie a rope to the bush use the call and tug the rope for a visual. |
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billythekidrock
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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numbnutz wrote: Quote,
What sounds does it have? I am sure it would work fine if you have bears in the area. Just make sure to call for a min. of one hour.
Last fall I purchased a FoxPro Scorpion with some fawn and calf distress and I plan on recording my own sounds as well. I get bored calling sometimes
Billy,
it has a fawn distress, rodent, rabbit, and howl, I'm hopeing it works, my plan was to set it up near an opening close to a bush and tie a rope to the bush use the call and tug the rope for a visual.
Sounds like a good plan. I would also take a hand call for louder or softer calling as well as being able to add emotion. Good luck. |
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45super
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks Blackbear, sounds like I`d better go the first of the season. I`m going up next weekend to look around. |
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