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Trail cam to hunting strategy. Tell me what I can learn.
yakimanoob:
Hey folks! This is my first time holding a bear permit, and also my first time capturing bears on a cam. These are from a well-worn elk crossroads in unit 360 that I hadn't considered as a bear-hunting area until I picked up my cam yesterday.
What should my take-aways from these photos be? I count one young chocolate, one young jet black, and one (medium? small?) adult chocolate. Is this a mom and two cubs? Can cubs from the same litter be different color phases? Can you tell from these photos what the sex of any of these bears are? How about shootability of the larger chocolate? (I'm hunting for meat more than the hide, just FYI). How do I translate the info here into a hunting strategy? The camera was out for about 3.5 weeks, and I got 1 bobcat, 2 bulls (I included one of them for a size/scale reference), and 3 bears. No deer and (magically) no people.
What do you think?
Elkcollector82:
Find the nearest food source and wait.
Skunk Trapper:
--- Quote from: yakimanoob on August 30, 2017, 01:19:49 PM ---
What should my take-aways from these photos be?
Take-away...u got bears there and u should hunt them hard if u wanna kill one...
Is this a mom and two cubs?
:dunno:
Can cubs from the same litter be different color phases?
Yes
Can you tell from these photos what the sex of any of these bears are?
No, it can be hard to tell even when they're right in front of you.
How about shootability of the larger chocolate?
:chuckle: First bear? :bfg:
How do I translate the info here into a hunting strategy?
Get out there and get it done!
What do you think?
Nice lookin' bears. Kill one
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tchoutacabouffa:
Trail cams have been a double edged sword. Three WEEKS in the woods are boiled down to a few pictures. Makes a person think if they sit there for three weeks the same amount of animals will come by. But that reality is near impossible. You are not going to sit there for three WEEKS without moving.
Don't tie yourself to that tree. You found great habitat and you found animals. The pics are the proof of that.
Keep practicing those skills as a hunting strategy. That is what worked. Don't let your pics dictate a strategy of just sitting in that spot.
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luckyman:
If that's on private land then that's the kind of spot I set up at. If I get several animals come threw now and again. That bush behind the two trees I would my a trail into the back side to keep from walking down the game trail. then make a couple shooting lanes, add a comfortable chair to sit on. You can still hunt or go sit in the blind to rest.
I never see anything but chipmunk early morning it seems. Most animals I see while sitting in a blind is mid day or right at dark.
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