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February 2005 Feature Article:

The Bear Facts - 25 Things Every Black Bear Hunter Should Know

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Serious Hunter · Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Posts: 957 Location: Idaho

Helpful article. I put in for a Spring Controlled Hunt - hope I get it. This article is helpful as it gives me some info for heading out in May.

Hank · Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 45 Location: Nova Scotia

I read the 25 features and is very true,except I have to mention about baiting-
It may depend on where you live but We have no problems to get bears into bait sites.We use a special scent formula to attract them,it usually takes a bear from 3 to 5 days to hit a site ,once it is hit the bear usually returns from then on.Then there are certain places (according to where your hunting) the bear may not come back for 2 or 3 days but when it does that it will keep coming back for the treats and that free meal from then on.Although in certain locations,bears will den up in Oct. but up in Atlantic Canada they don't den up until the end of Nov.and if not a lot of snow and cold they will stay out until mid Dec.as we have seen happen for years up here in N.S.

We have no problems with baits, they hit everyday guaranteed and we change their diet every so often to keep them wondering what tastey treats awaits them and they compete for these sites as you can see.Here is a sample of a hot bait site-There is no problem guessing these bears sizes.We take only Mature adults,weighing from 300 to over 600 lbs.

atomikall · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1964

my baits always work i get a bear every year baiting in ontario is by far your best bet if you do it right

warny · Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 42 Location: New Brunswick

Good article indeed

jonesy · Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Posts: 293 Location: williamstown vt

good article, but here in VT we cannot bait or hunt in spring. our season starts sept. 1 and ends four days into rifle season for deer,(nov.) o so soon!!! :yes:

atomikall · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1964

they took our spring hunt away and now we have attacks someone got killed a week ago down here by a big black boar.

GWbowhunter · Joined: 26 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

great article, for a deer hunter who is just getting interested in bears this is some outstanding info. :thumbsup1:

sawbill · Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 234 Location: ontario

A decent article but I don't agree with his comment that baiting is difficult. We put in a new bait and expect it to be hit when we check it a few days later. That comes, I suppose with having so many of the critters around so baiting here is easy, while a spot and stalk would be impossible because of the heavy cover.

StruttinAnRuttin · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject:

Doing my first bear hunt this fall in PA, thanks for the article! Good stuff!

TonyDeacon · Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:13 pm Post subject:

This is awesome infomation for somebody that is jsut geting into bear hunting. im sure it will help me.

thank you
Tony

rude robert · Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 52 Location: s. california

will a 30 06 be good for black bear. in s cal we have 1 bear for every square mile in our mountains and i have been thinking about tring it. i probably get eaten though lol robert

jfrench · Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 522 Location: New Hampshire

.30-06 will do the job.

numbnutz · Joined: 06 Sep 2007 Posts: 158 Location: portland,oregon

good article, there is some good advice i'll have to use this spring

numbnutz · Joined: 06 Sep 2007 Posts: 158 Location: portland,oregon

i use 30-06 for all my hunting, i hunt deer,elk,bear. you should be fine