Will bear keep other animals away?

[Arteman]

I put out my first cam 2 weeks ago.  I'm trying to find good bucks in my area so I bought a 50# bag of wetcob, 50# bag of some deer blend, salt block, Apple block, and four bags of apples.  I put out all that when I set my cam up, then the following weekend not knowing what to suspect when I checked my cam I carted another two 50# bags of wetcob, and two 50# bags of the deer blend, and four more big bags of apples.  The first day I had a doe and fawn come in and since then I've had a little bear in once, and a big bear in just about everyday.  I was thinking that bear is keeping the deer away with his cent, and maybe just moving my cam to a good trail or something and ditching 400 pounds of grain and blocks I carted way up there.  Any suggestions?

[sebek556]

last year I would have deer on the pile within a hour of the bear leaving. but this is a area in the north east so  i would stick with it and see what happens

[Arteman]

Thanks sebek556, being new to this I didn't know if they would feed from the same place after a bear.  The big bear came in 15 minutes after the doe and fawn left and I haven't seen them again for two weeks.  Got my cam set to take 3 pics every 5 seconds so I have plenty of good pix of him, if I ever learn to post them I will.  Funny though in two weeks no night pics with the IR, hope it works.

[huntnnw]

I had 9 different bears one year frequenting a cam and 5 bucks.. they always came back

[Tyler]

It might depend on the length of time the bear hangs out there. Once I started having bears hanging out at my pile of apples for extended periods of time my deer stopped coming by.  When the apples were gone the bear would move on, sure enough the deer would come back on the same schedule as before.

[billythekidrock]

I had 9 different bears one year frequenting a cam and 5 bucks.. they always came back

 
 

[h20hunter]

On my cam the bear(s) often linger. Of course the deer will stay away as long as the beer is close by. However, like the others have said, they will come back. I swear the deer at my cam can pattern the bears just like we do them. I've switched to just salt/minerals to encourage more deer and less bear.

[pat riotic]

It might depend on the length of time the bear hangs out there. Once I started having bears hanging out at my pile of apples for extended periods of time my deer stopped coming by.  When the apples were gone the bear would move on, sure enough the deer would come back on the same schedule as before.

[Archeryoutfitters]

If you are putting out that good of food the bear will start living on it, and guarding it, if you keep a eye on it and set your camera to 1 minute, and as soon as a deer comes in the bear will be there in a matter of a minute or two,
The deer will get tired of this and move off, you may have to go to a trace mineral with salt not as appealing to bears as the good grub they have now, but they will still come in once in awhile. As where the deer will still visit it daily, at least here in N.E.wa.

[Arteman]

Thanks everybody for the info, ill try it a couple weeks without any apples in hopes of getting more deer action.  I went up today to scout a little in the area and seen a small and bigger fork n horn.  The big one walked the ridge line about 400 yards above the cam, be nice to see him up close on cam.

[Button Nubbs]

Whwen ever I get a bear on cam its usually about 4 days before the elk come back.

[bobcat]

fork n horn

 

[Arteman]

Lol yeah Bobcat, I just want to see him on cam.  I didn't want to sound like one of them guys that horn hunts, but I won't shoot any forkys up there.  He was big though, I'm thinking either a young buck with really good genetics or maybe a throwback.  Maybe I should have classed him as a two point instead of a fork n horn.  He was heavy, very tall, but not so wide.  Blacktail.