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Needing some help
Machias:
No problem at all. I completly understand about schedules, it's an open invitation, next spring or even for this fall if you want to get after them then. I don't particularly like the fall as it really is way too easy, unless you limit yourself to mature gobblers, then it can be a real challenge. Good luck on your bear hunt, I am going to chase a bear or two over in Idaho next month myself.
coot man:
Where abouts in Idaho do you go? During my high school days I lived in Utah and we would travel every year to the LoLo pass area with a truck load of bait and hounds. Beautiful country and very steep. Good luck to you on your hunt as well.
Why is the turkey hunting easier in the fall? I would've thought it harder because the turkey's weren't gobblin. Maybe that would be best for me to try being the green horn that I am with turkey hunting.
jackelope:
it's a totally different kind of hunting. spot and stalk or scatter the flock and wait for them to gather back up.
Machias:
I hunt the Clearwater area for bear.
Fall hunting: locate flock, run at flock and scatter, sit down, wait 10-15 min, give assembly yelp and/or KeeKee Run calls, kill bird. It really is that easy. They have such a strong urge to flock, that once they are scattered (finding the flocks and scattering them is the hardest part of the fall season) they can't wait to regroup. The bust is critical, if they all fly off together then they'll just regroup where they land.
NOW if you make your self only kill MATURE gobblers then the fall hunt can be about as challenging as a good whitetail buck hunt. The generally travel in very small groups, call extremely sparringly and come in to the regroup with eyes and ears on full alert. Might give a cluck or two and wait for a response. You muct have patience and the ability to set stone still.
coot man:
Well I just got back from my bear hunt over on the coast. It was a blast!!! The first night of the hunt my boss shot a pig. The guide guessed him to be a 6 ft plus bear weighing in at over three hundred lbs.
The second morning I stalked into a brute and put the hammer down as the bear was doing cartwheels in the grass I cranked in another shell and before I could put the second bullet into him my guide stopped me and said that bear is dead. As we watched him struggle to stay alive he regained his composure and ran into the heavy cover. When we made it to where he had been hit. We found blood all over the place it looked like somebody had strapped a paintbrush to him, but the farther we tracked him the more blood we found, I wouldn't beleive an animal could lose so much blood and not tip over. The guide apologized for stopping me from shooting and after a long tracking job he gave me a second chance at another bear which I put the smack down on the next day. We were set up at noon on the bait site and by twelve thirty I was staring down at the bear I had shot. Was a real fun trip.
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