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Mesophilic:
I'm currently in the middle of my archery bear season.  I and my partner sre not experienced  bear hunters.  Neithet of us drew any tags this year so we figured we'd give bear a try.

The last few days we've been closing in on a medium size black bear. 

This evening we come around a bend in an old logging road at the same time she's crossing the road.  She steps,  we stop.  We stare at each other.   We're camo'd up and she's trying to figure what the heck we are while we're frozen out of bow range (Grozer biocomposite Scythian in case you wanted to know), no scrub to hide behind,  or cover...we're in the middle of the road.

She eventually gives a short huff and trots away in to the forrest.  We gave her about 5 mins then proceeded in a direction we thought we might cut her off but didn't see her again.   Went back to the spot and laser'd it at 44 yards, definitely out of my range.

Two questions:

1) what would you experienced bear hunters have done during the encounter in the road? (remember, no cover)

2) what would you have done after she trotted off in the woods?  Persue immediately?  Wait and then peruse?  Back off the pressure and come back tomorrow?  Start predator calling? Pee on all the trees to show dominance? ;D


Thanks guys, I'm learning and not too pround to ask for advice or criticism.

HH~:
Sow's legal to hunt? Have cubs nearby?

Prolly eased out, if bears are working that area what food source are they on?

You hunting bait pile?

Lots of unknowns here.

HH~

Pat B:
Where are you hunting? I'm not a bear hunter but different regions would have different tactics. Here in the southeast you can look for large white oaks with lots of acorns. Look for broken tops in these trees or for other food sources like soft mast.

Mesophilic:
Hunting in the mountains of northern New Mexico.

Terrain: Alot of locust briars and scrub oak with intermittent thick patches of impassible dense new growth apsen.   A few old growth pine.  Lots of deadfall from a fire ten years past.  Rough and rocky, up and down canyons and hills.  Visibility for glassing is terrible because of all the scrub and whatnot.  Everything is very dry so it's like walking on cornflakes with every step.

The acorns are all gone, but we've noticed what we think are remnants of rose hips and seeds in some scat piles, as well as grasses.  Not sure what else they're eating right now.  Have not located a source of water in the area.

We are allowed to shoot females as long as they don't have cubs.

No baiting, but calling is legal.

We have found a couple of spots of poop repositories...must've been days of feeding.  But so far all scat is old and crusty.  Judging from how fast my dog's poo dries in the yard they're definitely no fresher than a week.

But we've sighted this bear 3 times now so irregardless of poop age, we know she's still in the area.

Let me know if this info helps or if there's more details.

Woody roberts:
Ive never hunted bear but Ive hunted lots of other stuff. I would have done just what you did.

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