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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: DoubleJ on August 03, 2012, 11:36:43 AM

Title: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: DoubleJ on August 03, 2012, 11:36:43 AM: Got permission to go out for a few hours this evening, but only if I take the 8 and 5 year olds and only if they stay in the truck. I was told under no circumstances were they to be used as bait. I told her of course not, thanks to short sighted people like her, baiting was illegal in WA.

Anyway, now I have to road hunt for bear. Any tips for this way of hunting bear? I know more than a few bears are shot on logging roads every year and that bear like to use roads as, well, roads. I don't think I'm even going to break out the camo and dirty it up. Hopefully I can find a nice roadside clearcut and squeal on the fawn in distress call and see what happens.
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: xXLojackXx on August 03, 2012, 11:46:04 AM: I would say park the truck at least a few hundred yards shy of the clear cut and walk to it.
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: WSU on August 03, 2012, 11:58:42 AM: If in an area with good visibility and lots of cuts, driving to vantage points and glassing is probably the best you are going to do.
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: wraithen on August 03, 2012, 12:03:17 PM: Park. Wait until kids fall asleep. Call. Repeat. Seems like it may work. Never done it though. For the record, all hunting advice I give with the exception of things like "but that was a really dumb idea, idk why i did that" is mostly me just thinking aloud. Hopefully I get firsthand knowledge this year.
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: Woodchuck on August 03, 2012, 12:37:11 PM: So, not to rain on the parade but based on your constraints, What if you pull up on a clear cut and whack one down in the bottom? How do you leave the kids in the rig then?
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: chester on August 03, 2012, 12:47:46 PM: well if he is thinking clearly he will call me in that case 8)
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: Woodchuck on August 03, 2012, 12:50:01 PM: That way you can stay and watch the kids while he packs? :chuckle:
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: chester on August 03, 2012, 12:51:45 PM: thats what I was thinking :dunno:
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: DoubleJ on August 03, 2012, 12:52:09 PM: Quote from: chester on August 03, 2012, 12:47:46 PM
well if he is thinking clearly he will call me in that case 8)

:yeah:

And I'd take the kids with me to recover it. She just doesn't want me dragging them all over the woods looking for a bear.
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: Woodchuck on August 03, 2012, 12:57:40 PM: Ok, just checkin :tup: Good luck.
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: Kowsrule30 on August 03, 2012, 01:14:29 PM: It's funner to get them out.... I took my 5 year old son four at the time.... His 4 year old friend...... His 3 year old brother... My 9 year old daughter.... Her 9 year old friend..... And my buddy..... He went one way.... I went the other with all the kids in tow behind me.... :chuckle: Not thinking it would be much more then a hike for me... No stick was safe from being thrown or stomped on.... :chuckle: I've also never found that many M&M's on the floor of my truck before..... When we got to the clear cut a mile in I had them stay back so I could take a look..... I could still here the kids talking as I spotted a lone bear in a depression (luckily cause the sound of their voices carried over the bear off the ridge) One 180 yard shot and it was down.... Sure shut them up for a second until they all came running up and flushed a grouse scaring them into a yell.... Then two deer popped out and ran over the ridge..... They had never seen anything like it.... And they still talk about it and ask when I can take them again..... My buddy and I had to take turns towing them out on the bear on the game cart..... And yes he was a little pissed.... Once my foot gets a little better I'll at least have my son and daughter out on that same ridge in a week or two.... Maybe my wife to....
Title: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: Ridgerunner on August 03, 2012, 03:23:06 PM: That's a funny story right there, you just never know what will happen in the woods.
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: beagledog on August 03, 2012, 04:31:53 PM: I wouldn't use the kids as bait but would they be opposed to stuffing their pockets full of bacon and grease and walking 20 yards in front of you :chuckle:
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: 762Armo on August 03, 2012, 05:59:25 PM: Quote from: beagledog on August 03, 2012, 04:31:53 PM
I wouldn't use the kids as bait but would they be opposed to stuffing their pockets full of bacon and grease and walking 20 yards in front of you :chuckle:

:o :chuckle:
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: steen on August 03, 2012, 07:09:12 PM: If you get a bear with your kids present they will have had a moment in their lives to remember! Even if you don't they will enjoy all the wildlife sightings!
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: NW-GSP on August 03, 2012, 07:46:19 PM: I will be taking my five year old son with me at some point this season. I can point to the bears at cabelas and he can tell me if it's a polar bear, brown bear or black bear. He is also very entertained with a pair of bonoculars
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: Kola16 on August 03, 2012, 07:48:49 PM: Quote from: NW-GSP on August 03, 2012, 07:46:19 PM
He is also very entertained with a pair of bonoculars

That's good. Make him spot your bear, and then you can blast him :chuckle:
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: DoubleJ on August 03, 2012, 08:19:54 PM: Bah. What a waste. didn't see a single animal of any type move. In the complete wrong spot. Lots of unripe blackberries but no tracks and no scat. sucked
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: seth30 on August 03, 2012, 08:21:13 PM: Quote from: DoubleJ on August 03, 2012, 08:19:54 PM
Bah. What a waste. didn't see a single animal of any type move. In the complete wrong spot. Lots of unripe blackberries but no tracks and no scat. sucked
I bet the kids didnt see it that way :tup:
Title: Re: CRAP! Have to road hunt for bear tonight
Post by: link on August 04, 2012, 09:15:57 AM: Quote from: DoubleJ on August 03, 2012, 08:19:54 PM
Bah. What a waste. didn't see a single animal of any type move. In the complete wrong spot. Lots of unripe blackberries but no tracks and no scat. sucked
Yea I bet it was quite a wast of time. Being out with your two young children looking for bears. Man that must have really sucked. :dunno:
By the way. Sitting glassing the "right" clearcuts from a landing is a very productive way of hunting bears.