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I'm kina of stating the obvious here but if you shoot a bear you won't get any scouting done, it is usually so warm that time of year that meat needs to get out fairly quickly. To me it would depend on the amount of scouting trips I had planned, or how important the actual deer scouting was. But that is a great time to be up hunting bear, unless it has been a extreme dry summer there should be lots of ripe berrys at that time, and elevation.