So yesterday I set up a game camera over the Dead Thing to see what happens. What happens is I have about 40 pictures of a fat bear eating and sleeping:
And I’m not 100% certain, but I believe a different bear decided to check out the conex:
Bear season opens in three weeks. I’m buying a tag ‘just in case’.
That’s more bears in a weekend than we see in a year. But on the positive side, it looks like your property comes with its own food supply.
Seems wise to have the tag, just in case. Is there a limit to how many tags you can get? You might want to take one animal for fun, food and “pour encourager les autres”, but still have a tag on hand for the even that you need to shoot another if it gets too close or too inquisitive.
Yes. Your beta site intelligence gathering via the cameras and net access is providing good dividends. Your situational awareness is improved with this data and now you can counter whatever problems these interloper bears etc, may cause to your private property. At least you only yet have wildlife problems to contend with instead of people problems that are regular issues in towns, cities and hives. Get the bear tag (s) and go ahead and hunt the area. This is another gathering Intel practice mission for you in your new area there is to go ahead and hunt or work over that area to better master it as a domain and cull back them bears now, before conflicts arise.
Just goes to show how many are out and about that we never see, and only know about from tracks/scat/game cams.
Did you ever think that someone planted that carcus to attact bears, maybe to hunt them , or maybe to overwilm the new guy in the neighborhood?
No more than I think that one of my neighbors is a retired CIA guy who re-tasked a satellite to keep an eye on me. Theres far easier ways to screw with the new guy that don’t involve poaching. They could dump a stolen car or a USB drive of kiddie porn on the property and call the cops. But the notion that they poached a mulie, hauled it over there, knew there were bears nearby, and wanted to get me in trouble? Mmmmm…Seems a bit unlikely.
I would suspect that cougar, or maybe a bear made a kill and then left it when the other critters started to make feeding a competition. Large predator kills will remain fairly in place, it is the coyotes, foxes, and others that usually scatter the bones for the mice and birds to finish off. Just my thoughts from observations over the years. Be very alert and cautious if there is still red meat on a kill, something is likely close by.
Bears can be a nuisance, for certain. I know of old-timers in a northern State who would get so pissed off at the black bears wrecking their honey bee hives that they would gut-shoot them with a .22, knowing that they would wander far off before dying from infection. Likely to never be found, but if they were there was no evidence of what happened to the bear. I’m not suggesting that I admire their solution, but I can understand their exasperation.
It’s my opinion that bear meat is nasty, greasy, and not worth the risk of trichinosis.
your human scent isn’t fazing it in the least – might actually be attracting the critter >>> I’m thinking one of your neighbors might be grateful for you attracting it to co-exist with you ;;;;;;;;;;;
Bears make fantastic jerky.
Always look up in the trees when out and about. I sometimes find a deer carcass 10-15 feet up in the trees. Only two things can carry a 200lb deer up a tree, one is a lion and the other is…
…Predator.
Luckily he has a telltale shimmer.
Brown bears do not carry their carcasses up into a tree, that would be a mountain lion. Black bears are omnivorous with occasional fish.
Not about bears, but you might be interested in this article about maintaining a dirt road:
https://www.backwoodshome.com/how-to-maintain-a-dirt-road/
Looks like you have a bunch. I know they trap them in the park, Yellowstone, and the relocate the trapped bears. Was a bigger problem in the 60’s but I’m sure they still do that. They always said they took them to a remote site and dumped them out. Not sure how close you are to that, but you are remote.
Do you have a trusted friend to hunt with? A bear might need two hunters or you may have to have a family of bears go to bear heaven.
Im sure I can find someone.
CZ,
First off, it is not that hard to shoot a black bear. I would recommend establishing a bait pile and an elevated stand and let nature take it’s course.
Second……is that really you in the picture?
Only if I look EXACTLY like Sad Ben Affleck.