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Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: Marc St Louis on May 10, 2008, 12:14:32 pm

Title: Bear Video
Post by: Marc St Louis on May 10, 2008, 12:14:32 pm
Have any of you seen this video on youtube? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDEW-nIg844&feature=related

I've heard of this but never seen anything like it
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: huntertrapper on May 10, 2008, 12:46:50 pm
yeah, man thats sad to hear it bawling, but its what has to be done. the bear didnt kill it just for the heck of it....
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: Hillbilly on May 10, 2008, 01:29:49 pm
Bears get a lot of deer fawns here. Bear predation on young elk has been the major setback for the elk reintroduction efforts here in the Smoky Mountains.
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: huntertrapper on May 10, 2008, 05:06:27 pm
yeah good supply of bears in the east, they do a hurtin on fawns and calfs along with yoddlers.
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: D. Tiller on May 10, 2008, 06:54:05 pm
Unfortunatly with all the National Parks in the Smokey Mountains there is very little hunting presure on the bears.  So dificult to reintroduce elk.
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: recurve shooter on May 10, 2008, 11:56:54 pm
i could help add some pressure! i've heard bear is pretty good. >:D
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: hawkbow on May 11, 2008, 12:11:06 am
The grizz here stalk the elk herds when the cows are having their young... they have learned that a baby elk are easy pickins.. sad to see but part of the great circle of life.. Hawk
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: Justin Snyder on May 11, 2008, 05:25:01 pm
No Marc I have never seen anything like that.  I have only heard stories. Hillbilly, get you a distress call and work over those bears.  Just mimic that calf's sound and they will come.  ;) It is the most exciting hunting you will ever do. Justin
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: Hillbilly on May 12, 2008, 10:23:40 am
Justin, a couple guys I know called in a big bear with a predator call one night-it put them back in their truck.  ;D
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: Wolf Watcher on May 12, 2008, 12:08:15 pm
The Griz and black bears take elk calves for about the first three weeks of the new borns.  Then when the calves get big enough to travel the wolves take over the hunt as they are chase animals.  The Griz kill lots of the neighbors calves during the summer grazing season when the cattle are on the forest.  The Griz are off the endangered species list but still illegal to kill.  They can out run a horse for a short distance.  What bothers me is seeing the elk being eaten alive by the wolves.  That's life in our part of Wyoming!!  Both wolves and bears are fantastic animals, we just have more than the environment can handle!  Watcher
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: DanaM on May 12, 2008, 12:26:25 pm
Sounds like hear in upper michigan watcher, lots of bl;ack bears that the DNR decided to start a drawing for limited tags ???

And to many wolves that have been delisted now but will never see a hunting season, just mention it and the wolf lovers cringe and cry.

Of course I don't like to see people taking the law into their own hands but I know for a fact that the wolves are being thinned out somewhat ;)

They also claim their isn't a breeding population of cougar up here but I understand why they won't as soon as they acknowledge them they will

have to formulate a management plan and that means $$$$$$$
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: TRACY on May 12, 2008, 04:08:21 pm
Dana, last time I was in the UP you had more than your share of black bears in the Paradise area. Never understood why they didn't allow more hunting oppportunities for residents. Now they have them as far south as Newaygo Co. in the lower portion with seasons.

Tracy
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: DanaM on May 12, 2008, 04:11:27 pm
Politics and money Tracy thats what Michigans DNR is all about these days >:(
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: TRACY on May 12, 2008, 04:33:36 pm
There's a few states that operate that way unfortunately.
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: D. Tiller on May 12, 2008, 04:44:31 pm
Hey, same problem on the west coast states. They wont admit to how many cougar there actually are.  Now they are starting to attack humans but it only seems the bunny lovers get outraged is when there Poodle fluffy gets snacked on. "Oh, My poor Smookems got ate!". Best use for a poodle died pink I can think of!  >:D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: Justin Snyder on May 12, 2008, 04:55:11 pm
Justin, a couple guys I know called in a big bear with a predator call one night-it put them back in their truck.  ;D
They had a real exciting time didn't they?  >:D BTW That is what they make bear spray for. Justin
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: huntertrapper on May 12, 2008, 06:31:25 pm
theres a blacksmith up in nrothern pa a primtive man shoots blackpowder does blacksmithin usin old ways tans deer hides, anway, he mouse sqeeks coyotes at night with no light just by the light of the moon and says he has called in bears a couple times, says its real hairy  :D i can imagine seein one of our 500 pound boars walking right at ya! :)
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: Hillbilly on May 13, 2008, 09:33:02 am
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BTW That is what they make bear spray for. Justin

Justin, they could probably have used some air-freshener spray in the truck, too....... ;D ;D
Title: Re: Bear Video
Post by: countryboy on May 13, 2008, 10:19:23 pm
man that is crazy but thats just the way it is.