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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: ridgefire on May 15, 2015, 07:31:00 PM

Title: timber company bear feeders
Post by: ridgefire on May 15, 2015, 07:31:00 PM: I was doing some bear/deer scouting last night and came across a feeder that was getting pounded by bears. I reported it to fish and game and they said it was a feeder that the timber companies put out for bears to help minimize damage to trees from peeling. Has anybody ever came across one of these and if so would it be legal to hunt that area if the state oks it? Never saw so much bear sign in such a small area.
Title: Re: timber company bear feeders
Post by: rasbo on May 15, 2015, 07:32:39 PM: Quote from: ridgefire on May 15, 2015, 07:31:00 PM
I was doing some bear/deer scouting last night and came across a feeder that was getting pounded by bears. I reported it to fish and game and they said it was a feeder that the timber companies put out for bears to help minimize damage to trees from peeling. Has anybody ever came across one of these and if so would it be legal to hunt that area if the state oks it? Never saw so much bear sign in such a small area.
that would be like baiting many of those areas are closed to bears,,,if ya want a rush rattle a chain on the top of it and wait :chuckle:
Title: Re: timber company bear feeders
Post by: ridgefire on May 15, 2015, 07:36:27 PM: It's a Monroe unit area. I don't have a spring tag but may visit the area with a chain come August.
Title: Re: timber company bear feeders
Post by: longwalker on May 15, 2015, 07:50:30 PM: they'll stop feeding them around the end of june. other food starts growing, the feeders get empty and the bears move on well before the season opens. i know of like 5 i could drive to right now. i like to put cameras up around them, some hogs hit those feeders during spring. if you do put a camera up hide it well. the timber company usually pull them down. liability, they dont want you around the feeders
Title: Re: timber company bear feeders
Post by: saylean on May 16, 2015, 07:37:23 PM: Quote from: ridgefire on May 15, 2015, 07:36:27 PM
It's a Monroe unit area. I don't have a spring tag but may visit the area with a chain come August.

I found some in Monroe unit last year too. Timber company's. Actually, it was right along a road where I see hikers all the time...kind of funny they didn't post any signs at the gate or when you got close that you were walking right into a feed station.
Title: Re: timber company bear feeders
Post by: magnumb on May 16, 2015, 10:47:28 PM: Quote from: saylean on May 16, 2015, 07:37:23 PM
Quote from: ridgefire on May 15, 2015, 07:36:27 PM
It's a Monroe unit area. I don't have a spring tag but may visit the area with a chain come August.

I found some in Monroe unit last year too. Timber company's. Actually, it was right along a road where I see hikers all the time...kind of funny they didn't post any signs at the gate or when you got close that you were walking right into a feed station.

Perhaps there's a method to their madness.......... :tup:.