One step closer to Bear

[Snyd]

Well, we’re getting closer to blackies over bait. I’ve been trying to do this for a few years. Didn’t make it out Bear Baiting the last 2 years. Year before was my first try. Over the past couple weeks my buddy, his 18yo boy and myself managed to get some bait in the woods. I started off with a 55gal drum full of popcorn and “leftovers” from a friends beehive.





Got it set out and chained up, got a stand up in a tree and ranged it at 33yds. Perfect shot for the 45 Colt BisHunter, 2X Weaver and 355gr LBT WFN at 1200fps. Heck, I can make that shot standing offhand with one eye closed I had also hung some stink bait. Let it set a few days, went back out and the logs I had stuffed in the feed hole were pulled out and it was half empty plus a big pile I had on the ground was basically gone. Got a hit! Since the site wasn’t all tore up it appears to have been a blackie. Griz tear things up all to h311.



I refilled it from this batch I had packed in with me. Nice tasty morsels for Pooh Bear!




My buddies bait was hit hard by a griz. Drum was dented up/partially crushed, whole area was tore up, etc. He got some pics on his game came but the angle was off some so we can’t see the whole bear but we can see his/her back, hump, neck (or rather lack thereof) and head with little ears. Seems to be a pretty good sized Interior Griz. Can’t shoot griz over bait yet in this area. But, next year you can. I should have my 500L by then! Game cam said he hit it last Saturday night a 7. We were out Tuesday. We’re hoping he’s moved on. Buddy and son are bowhunting. I need to get one of those GameCams for this kind of huntin.

Were headed out tomorrow night to sit in our stands all night. Pray in a couple Boars if you’re a praying man! If not, give it a shot anyway

FYI, it’s light all night here this time of year. Here’s some pics I took on the way home the other night at about 11pm in the Land of the Midnight Sun. You can see Denali (Mt. McKinley) in the one, it's about 250-300 miles away. Massive Mountain.

[whitworth]

Thanks for the great report, Snyd!

[cottonstalk]

may the largest black boar in Alaska grace your shooting lanes,good luck

[contender]

Good luck in this. I wish they'd allow us to bait hunt bear. We have an abundance of bears, and many live in cities, or gated communities where hunting is illegal. Add in the fact of thick rough terrain making normal hunting with the dogs hard,,, bait hunting could help balance the population of bears.
I went out a half a dozen times last season when we run bears with dogs. In all we got 0 bears. Twice, struck bears run straight into a state park, & twice they run into prohibited areas. Twice,,, the bears simply got away from the dogs before anybody could get near them.
In my business, (animal damage control,) I get a LOT of calls from people who have a bear problem, and I, nor anybody else are allowed to do anything.

[blacktailslayer]

Baiting bears is a lot of work packing all of that in to the bait site. We haven't been able to hunt bears over bait or with dogs since the mid-90's here in Oregon. Good luck, you are earning this bear!

Don D.

[bigbore442001]

I wish you the best of luck. Baiting can be tough in the fact that you have to more or less sit like a statue at one spot and hope the bear doesn't smell you or at least smell and register in its mind that you are a threat.

[razor]

Can't beat that bear hunting. I don't bait them, but sometimes they come to eat the cows corn, haha. Shot a sow last fall with a Horvath Bisley 45 colt and it was one of the best hunts I have ever had. They are getting to be a lot of bears here in Va..They sure have run the deer off tho. I was using a 300LFN over some 296 and the bear just went about 25yds and dropped. When we skinned her, the lungs were gone. Had about two inches of fat on her.