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Post by contender on Oct 24, 2022 22:00:46 GMT -5
I went with a group of bear hunters today after a WNC bear. In our mountains,, we use dogs. This group has hunted 6 days of the last week, and today wasn't an exception. We got on (2) different bears, but were only able to get one of those. It wasn't a big bear,, but it gave a good chase. The second bear managed to elude the dogs in some cliffs. Took a while to round up all the dogs. But I brought home some bear meat. Yes,, improperly done,, bear can be horrible to eat. PROPERLY done,, and this includes proper handling from the moment of the kill, it is quite tasty. One gentleman always requests the liver, and another one requests the fat. The guy who actually killed it get his choice of cuts. So far this group has taken bears ranging from about 125 lbs up to 375 lbs in the last week.
Our biggest problem is hunting them in places where we have access. Bears & dogs can't read "POSTED" signs, nor city limits, or sanctuary, or private property signs. Just Saturday, a guy who knows almost all the hunters, and owns only 10 acres,, (in an area of several hundred acres,) got into it with a couple of guys. The bigger property owner got involved, and the 10 acre owner said; "I just don't like 2 of these guys & I don't want them here." The bigger owner said; "Tough, they are with me and have my FULL permission to be here. They will stay off your property, but NEVER, EVER call me again for help when you get stuck here,, again!" (Apparently, the guy who owns a lot more property has been a good neighbor in helping out the other guy., Not anymore.
But, I'm tired & wore out from running the hills after dogs & bears today.
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Post by todddoyka on Oct 25, 2022 14:37:56 GMT -5
i killed 'undreds and 'undreds of bears, in my time. well, only one . the PA Game Commision weighed him at 396lbs undressed. the PAGC had caught him, tatooed his upper lip and had a file on him. he is what you call a nuisance bear. he was caught 4 or 5 times in SWPA, taken to a new spot everytime and released. the bear would go back to around the same spot he was caught and would catch caged rabbits, bird and hummingbird feeders, go through the gargabe cans......till he was caught and released in a new spot.
and then this idiot came along !!! there i was, a world renown black bear specialist with one and a half whole days under my belt. the bear didn't stand a chance. ok, i was laid off for the winter and my younger brother asked me to hunt bears. since bear season is right next to deer season (it used to be), i'll go as a warm up for deer season. i, in no way, even considered of seeing a bear, let alone getting one. i'm just pre season scouting for deer. i have seen bears thro the years while out hunting deer, the last one i seen, at the time, was a female with three cubs and they came within 30 yards of me and didn't "see" me. i guess i see bears about every 3 or 4 years. i only had one bear that was aggressive and i fired my rifle into the ground at his feet. he wasn't so aggressive then. anyway, i enjoy seeing bears.
you can only hunt them legally in PA is for sitting in a stand or a bear drive. no bait and no dogs, only 25 people are allowed to drive bears(you sign up and the leader carrys the paper that you and everybody else has signed, or at least that's the way it used to be).
Monday i scouted out deer. Tuesday, about 11:00AM is when i shot the bear. my brother was 75 yards+/- uphill from me and we were walking. all of a sudden my brother yells out "Todd!!!" and BANG!!! goes his gun. the brush behind me explodes with a bear going heck for leather to get away from the bang. the bear was about 15+/- yards away, running broadside. i shot the bear and then it dives into more cover and then the bear crashes to ground and does a death moan, which i didn't know!!! it happended all so fast, Todd,bang, exploding brush, my bang, crash and death moan; all this happened in about a second or two.
it took my brother about 10-15 minutes to go thru the brush to get to me. he tells me that he shot the bearas it was going towards me. i tell him i must have shot on instinct because i don't remember that much about it. then we go the bear cautiously. we find him dead and my brother find his shot was high in the lungs(270 win/150gr Hornady RN) and my shot was low in the lungs(308 win/180gr Hornady RN). the 270 shot was a thru-n-thru, while the 308 shot wasn't, i never found it.
i took the skull and the back straps (i did jerky it...AWESOME!!!!!), while my brother did a taxidermy head mount and a hindquater. the rest of it was given to friends. oh, and we got the front claws of the bear too. on the skull mount, the brass plack says Todd and Cory's Bear.
i got the bear tag next year, but never hunted with it. i can say that killing a bear ain't so hard, i only spent 1 1/2 days to kill a bear. my grandpappy had about 30-40 years of not killing a bear.
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Post by bula on Oct 25, 2022 17:17:23 GMT -5
Yup, that's Penn bear hunting.
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Post by parallaxbill on Oct 26, 2022 14:45:49 GMT -5
Definitely a whopper!!
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Post by cdf41 on Oct 26, 2022 19:08:12 GMT -5
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Post by gunsbam45 on Oct 27, 2022 20:24:47 GMT -5
I just read the article on that bear might of been this morning, but it's the new Western NC record at 695 pounds topping the prevbious record of 688. He's a houndsman and they got out in front of the dogs and got a shot on it on the move away from them. It was a good read. His buddy killed a 450 pounder with the dogs also.
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Post by starmetal47 on Oct 27, 2022 21:08:23 GMT -5
New Tn record bear | TNDeerhttps://www.tndeer.com › ... › TnDeer General Forum Oct 14, 2021 — Reported wt 738 lbs dressed, blew the old record away. Killed at Citico. Here a link and there is some sort of pics: www.tndeer.com/threads/new-tn-record-bear.409810/
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Post by starmetal47 on Oct 27, 2022 21:18:04 GMT -5
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