where are the bear?

[Kc_Kracker]

since all the berries are pretty well gone where do the bears go, down, up? 1 week before deer season stopped seeing scat where we were hunting them and now no signs at all   

[runamuk]

they go gutpiling

[Kc_Kracker]

that makes sense, so do they hang around the same elevation all the time?

[saylean]

There are probably a few pockets left of blue berries, other food sources left. I bet that gutpiling is a pretty good time for them.

Now is a good time to predator call into areas that look like they might hold bears.

[boneaddict]

Elderberries

[boneaddict]

mountain ashe

[boneaddict]

two points and wolf carcasses.....

[saylean]

two points and wolf carcasses.....

[Kc_Kracker]

i have heard a few stories this weekend of them going garbage canning, maybe i need to just set out empty cans 

[3nails]

mountain ashe

That's where they'll be. Saw one recently WAY up.

[Kc_Kracker]

i take it nobody has an idea of what elevation that are most likely to be found right now?

[3nails]

mountain ashe

That's where they'll be. Saw one recently WAY up.

[dscubame]

I know of one that is at the taxi.

[runamuk]

that makes sense, so do they hang around the same elevation all the time?

no idea I see sign high and low bears really do seem to go where the food is...

I found elderberries taken to damn near the ground while deer hunting in fact took me a minute to identify the actual plant there was so little left of the shrub

and mountain ash is usually fairly high in the mt and in town 

[Huntbear]

i take it nobody has an idea of what elevation that are most likely to be found right now?

Follow the food...

Some areas are still producing berries...  but I can tell you this much.  A bear loves a good gut pile.. the heart and liver and lungs are favorites for adding fat, so he sleeps good all winter..   So if you shoot a deer or an elk in a slightly remote area, sit on it for several days.. bet a bear finds it.