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Re: Spring Bear Wenaha
« Reply #180 on: April 30, 2015, 05:24:06 PM »
Finding any elk sheds?

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Re: Spring Bear Wenaha
« Reply #181 on: April 30, 2015, 05:26:12 PM »
damng ticks.  Figured warming would bring em out.  We only saw a couple two weeks ago. 

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Re: Spring Bear Wenaha
« Reply #182 on: April 30, 2015, 06:01:53 PM »
Silk, this has now entered Epic Thread territory. Stop the tick hunting and get back to bear hunting.
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Re: Spring Bear Wenaha
« Reply #183 on: April 30, 2015, 06:04:31 PM »
I think he's hangin at the bar in Troy...... probably grabbed a cabin there to hide from the wolves.....

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Re: Spring Bear Wenaha
« Reply #184 on: April 30, 2015, 06:40:55 PM »
Trying to find a basin without elk! I've got ten in my near basin. Not that a bear couldn't go in there as well but I'm on like day 6 in the wilderness, second solo...it's only crazy if it doesn't work.


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Re: Spring Bear Wenaha
« Reply #185 on: April 30, 2015, 06:48:47 PM »
damng ticks.  Figured warming would bring em out.  We only saw a couple two weeks ago.

Im still checking my undercarriage every day thinking ones gonna crawl in there after that trip  :chuckle: I got 2 on my clothes and it ruined me! Dam Ticks!!!

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Re: Spring Bear Wenaha
« Reply #186 on: April 30, 2015, 06:55:28 PM »
My number is well over 70 TODAY!


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Re: Spring Bear Wenaha
« Reply #187 on: April 30, 2015, 07:52:39 PM »
Don't believe him J, he's just tryin to scare you from his honey hole with tick stories.  Heh, INO its working !

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Re: Spring Bear Wenaha
« Reply #188 on: April 30, 2015, 08:59:16 PM »
Trying to find a basin without elk! I've got ten in my near basin. Not that a bear couldn't go in there as well but I'm on like day 6 in the wilderness, second solo...it's only crazy if it doesn't work.


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The bear I missed last week was probably only 250 yds from a bedded bull elk

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Re: Spring Bear Wenaha
« Reply #189 on: April 30, 2015, 09:03:38 PM »
Trying to find a basin without elk! I've got ten in my near basin. Not that a bear couldn't go in there as well but I'm on like day 6 in the wilderness, second solo...it's only crazy if it doesn't work.


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Don't let the presence of elk make you think that there is no bear in the area. I watched a bear last elk season walk 50 yards or so from elk and deer....they didn't seem to care, and I'm sure they saw him.

Keep at it and enjoy the hunt!

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Re: Spring Bear Wenaha
« Reply #190 on: May 01, 2015, 12:58:23 PM »
This past year I was following a bear in September trying to catch up and he lead me straight into a herd of elk. One of which took an arrow. I thought the bear was ripping a stump apart but it was a bull raking a tree.

Elk and bears coexist  :tup:

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Re: Spring Bear Wenaha
« Reply #191 on: May 01, 2015, 01:20:07 PM »
This past year I was following a bear in September trying to catch up and he lead me straight into a herd of elk. One of which took an arrow. I thought the bear was ripping a stump apart but it was a bull raking a tree.

Elk and bears coexist  :tup:

I never thought of that---what a great strategy.  If the sound of bears crashing through the woods doesn't affect the elk, then you crashing through the woods after the bear should also be true.  (I know, somebody will chirp in that bears are really quiet movers.)  I don't know if I will ever be in that position, but this is good to know.   :tup:
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Re: Spring Bear Wenaha
« Reply #192 on: May 01, 2015, 02:07:27 PM »
This past year I was following a bear in September trying to catch up and he lead me straight into a herd of elk. One of which took an arrow. I thought the bear was ripping a stump apart but it was a bull raking a tree.

Elk and bears coexist  :tup:

I never thought of that---what a great strategy.  If the sound of bears crashing through the woods doesn't affect the elk, then you crashing through the woods after the bear should also be true.  (I know, somebody will chirp in that bears are really quiet movers.)  I don't know if I will ever be in that position, but this is good to know.   :tup:

The bears will start following the lone cows here real soon.  Calves will be dropping in the next 3-4 weeks.
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Re: Spring Bear Wenaha
« Reply #193 on: May 01, 2015, 09:19:05 PM »
Off the grid?  No action today or you run to Pomeroy for beer?

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Re: Spring Bear Wenaha
« Reply #194 on: May 01, 2015, 09:36:34 PM »
There's barely any beer in pomeroy. Kinda like elk. Few and far between.
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