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.

[dscubame]

I would be tempted to hunt the snow line and look for tracks.  Generally with fall bear the higher the elevation the better due to food source still up high.  Closer to hibernation the better they will be extremely active eating leading up to the deep sleep.