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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: fatrobber on August 25, 2013, 11:22:03 AM

Title: Old smokey got us good.
Post by: fatrobber on August 25, 2013, 11:22:03 AM: We were nearing the end of our hunt went up around a bend for no longer than 2 minutes came back to find a fresh pile of sign. Man we were so close.
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Post by: oldschooltrucks on August 25, 2013, 11:29:27 AM: Happened to me this past spring. :bash: Keep at it though
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Post by: fatrobber on August 25, 2013, 11:57:22 AM: It was a little aggravating but hey we were in the right place. The bears are out
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on August 25, 2013, 12:02:55 PM: So ...your saying this bear sheet ? :o
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Post by: fatrobber on August 25, 2013, 12:27:14 PM: Yes that is bear poop
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Post by: hoytem on August 25, 2013, 04:04:03 PM: wtf is that thing eating!?
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Post by: fatrobber on August 25, 2013, 04:25:48 PM: Seen a couple more piles similar in diet. Also within a more recent pooping as well. It looked like it was grass but isn't that a more early diet thig ?
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Post by: weasel28 on August 25, 2013, 04:29:20 PM: It's eating mud guppies lol :IBCOOL:
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Post by: KFhunter on August 25, 2013, 04:32:33 PM: that's nasty

I wouldn't eat that bear anyways, not that I'm convinced it's even a bear.
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Post by: fatrobber on August 25, 2013, 04:34:33 PM: Lol something!

Could it be salmon? I have never seen what salmon looks like in the poo
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Post by: hntrspud on August 25, 2013, 06:20:51 PM: Not even a seed in that poo? Were there berries around, other food sources? Just curious how you know for sure it is bear. Looks like a cat maybe? Especially if you were as close to the corner as you say. You would think you guys would have heard it. :dunno:
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Post by: KFhunter on August 25, 2013, 06:41:16 PM: I've had cats crap right in my tracks - they'll follow you down a trail and crap right where you been.

Kinda funny as they don't always even try to bury it, nope they lay a big ol stinky deuce right in your footprint.

Not sure the signal they're sending by doing that, maybe a territory thing?
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Post by: fatrobber on August 25, 2013, 07:07:38 PM: There was plenty of other bear poo around some with berries others with this grassy stuff

Also some of the poo was old like weeks old

I was way out in the woods nobody around. Is that a bobcat thing as well?

I do agree it seems odd we couldn't hear the thing.
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Post by: Ridgeratt on August 25, 2013, 07:09:57 PM: Not sure I would go with Bear Scat! But if it is they should change their diet!!! :chuckle:
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Post by: billythekidrock on August 25, 2013, 07:31:57 PM: I have seen some weird bear crap, but I am not sure if this is even bear. There is nothing for size reference, but it is definitely not a full grass pile, more like fir needles than grass.
It looks like whatever it was had been feeding on rotten meat.
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Post by: fatrobber on August 25, 2013, 08:13:11 PM: The pile was about the size of my palm.
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on August 25, 2013, 08:27:58 PM: Dang I ran into the same thing!!
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Post by: billythekidrock on August 25, 2013, 08:29:11 PM: Quote from: fatrobber on August 25, 2013, 08:13:11 PM
The pile was about the size of my palm.

It is probably a yote with a sore butt.
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Post by: fatrobber on August 25, 2013, 08:33:20 PM: Is it normal for yotes to follow hunters? I do recall hearing a couple right as we started our hunt in the morning.
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Post by: billythekidrock on August 25, 2013, 08:34:29 PM: Quote from: fatrobber on August 25, 2013, 08:33:20 PM
Is it normal for yotes to follow hunters? I do recall hearing a couple right as we started our hunt in the morning.

Yes, especially young of the year which will be venturing on their own about now.
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on August 25, 2013, 08:42:11 PM: I have been sitting back on this one just to see where it was headed :chuckle: :chuckle: This is coyote sheet .. :twocents: :dunno:
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on August 25, 2013, 08:42:58 PM: Quote from: Skyvalhunter on August 25, 2013, 08:27:58 PM
Dang I ran into the same thing!!
Now this is bear sheet to say the least ... :yike: :chuckle:
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Post by: fatrobber on August 25, 2013, 08:44:31 PM: Ok thank you. Thy explains so much. I'm curious to know how long it had been following us.