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Title: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: bobcat on November 11, 2015, 03:35:03 PM: I killed a 2 point blacktail on the 31st. It was only 1/4 mile from the truck but we used the gutless method and quartered it out. I wanted to back later that day and put up a trail cam on the carcass but just ran out of time and didn't get it done. So the following weekend, on Sunday, I made it out there and put up a camera. The carcass was still intact but had been cleaned up pretty well by birds, I assume, and possibly raccoons and possums. Didn't look like coyotes had found it, which surprised me. I set the camera about 40 feet from the carcass and dumped 5 gallons of apples in the middle, so about 20 feet away from the camera. I was wanting to find out if there were any more bucks in the area, but also wanted to see what might come around because of the deer carcass.

Checked today and to my surprise, had no pictures of deer and no coyotes. Just a bear. The carcass was gone, had been drug off about 50 feet. The backbone and pelvis was still there but no rib bones. Did the bear eat the ribs? That's what I'm thinking. All the apples were gone. Kind of disappointed, was hoping for pictures of some bucks. Would the smell of the carcass keep the deer away?
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: billythekidrock on November 11, 2015, 03:39:52 PM: That is a good bear.

Deer smell death all the time and I often get them on camera at a kill site. I would think the bear would be more of a deterrent than the carcass.

That being said, I often get deer and bear on camera within minutes of each other so I am guessing your bucks are somewhere else.
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: Timberstalker on November 11, 2015, 04:10:44 PM: Don't you have 4 days left of bear season? Go hang your tag on that bear. He's better than average.
Thanks for sharing bobcat.
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: saylean on November 11, 2015, 04:15:59 PM: Ive seen deer right next to a fresh cougar kill of an elk, so I don't believe that the smell of the carcass would keep the deerskies away.
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: bobcat on November 11, 2015, 05:08:31 PM: Yes, I believe bear season is open but I don't think the odds of finding that bear are very good. Especially now that the carcass is all eaten up. Plus, the fact that I had apples there would mean I would be guilty of baiting bears if I killed the bear at that location. I wish I would've taken more apples out there today. Most of the apples I had I took to another location where I have a camera. I kept about a dozen apples for this spot, but I was thinking since it had only been 3 days there would still be some apples left. But no, bears always eat everything.
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: CAMPMEAT on November 18, 2015, 08:39:05 PM: bobcat, you weren't baiting bears. That wasn't your intention at all. I'd shoot it, if he presented a shot.
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: bobcat on November 18, 2015, 08:43:07 PM: Too late now. Maybe next year.
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: pianoman9701 on November 19, 2015, 06:58:31 AM: Cool bear.
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: boneaddict on November 21, 2015, 02:17:39 PM: Nice bear for next year!
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: Mark251 on November 22, 2015, 05:29:53 PM: Good looking bear :tup:
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: bobcat on December 13, 2015, 11:15:32 PM: I have more pictures to add to this thread. The bear hasn't been back and I know I titled this thread "Bear," but I'll go ahead and put the new pictures here since it's the same camera and location. Got nothing but deer this time and a coyote only once. The bear must be sleeping. Got over a thousand pictures since I put out a fair amount of apples. The apples only lasted about three days and after that got very few pictures.
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Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: Duckslayer89 on December 14, 2015, 12:07:20 AM: Cool pics! Your camera takes great night shots. I have Cabelas outfitter camera and the night photos are completely black usually. What model moultrie is thAt
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: John321 on December 14, 2015, 03:50:11 AM: Great photos! What night vision do you use? I like my googles, bought from here: http://www.atncorp.com/night-vision-goggles (http://www.atncorp.com/night-vision-goggles)
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: pope on December 14, 2015, 05:37:07 AM: Thanks for posting your photos, Bobcat. Yesterday I went back to where I'd left a deer 3 weeks ago and I couldn't find any bones in the area, just some hair and a couple of chunks of neck bone. Now I understand why nobody finds bigfoot remains.
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: Axle on December 14, 2015, 06:26:55 AM: Nice pictures! thanks for sharing :tup:
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: bobcat on December 14, 2015, 06:30:42 AM: The camera is a Moultrie M80.

Duckslayer- is your camera a black flash? My Moultrie is a standard infrared flash. I don't have any of the black flash cameras but from what I've read, a lot of them don't produce very good night time pictures. But I just don't know much about them.

I've been really happy with this Moultrie M80. I picked it up a couple years ago as a refurbished unit for $65. I wish I had more than one of these.
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: bobcat on December 14, 2015, 08:01:39 AM: Pope- I can't find a trace of the deer I killed there. Not even a hair. The bear cleaned it up pretty well. And I assume coyotes may have helped as well.
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: Sitka_Blacktail on December 14, 2015, 08:36:39 AM: Looks like at least 2 different 3x3s and 2 different spikes in those pix. Should be good there next year.

Just looked again and it looks like a 2x1 also.
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: bobcat on December 14, 2015, 09:01:49 AM: That's what I was thinking- it's looking good for next year. I'm thinking about putting up a ladder stand. Probably will put it up in the spring to give the deer lots of time to get used to it. What will be tough to decide is if I should hunt rifle season or muzzleloader season.
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: Duckslayer89 on December 28, 2015, 05:43:16 PM: Quote from: bobcat on December 14, 2015, 06:30:42 AM
The camera is a Moultrie M80.

Duckslayer- is your camera a black flash? My Moultrie is a standard infrared flash. I don't have any of the black flash cameras but from what I've read, a lot of them don't produce very good night time pictures. But I just don't know much about them.

I've been really happy with this Moultrie M80. I picked it up a couple years ago as a refurbished unit for $65. I wish I had more than one of these.

I'm not sure if it's a backflash. But I don't think it's infrared so it's probably backflash. I hardly ever go cheap but I did on the camera now I know why I don't go cheap!!
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: Smith_22 on December 29, 2015, 01:04:57 PM: Nice pics bobcat, those deer sure have a pretty coat on them. Great looking bear too. Thanks for sharing. Ladder stands are the way to go, we usually put them up mid august and within a few weeks the deer are walking right under them, bucks included. Good luck.
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: fishnfur on January 05, 2016, 10:34:36 PM: Those are some pretty big bodied bucks for such small racks. Real fatties. Looks like the rut wasn't too tough on them.

One of those bucks looks like it may be a 4 X 2 or 4 X 3 next year if that crabby claw develops a bit more. Hope we see some mid-summer pics of that one.
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: bobcat on January 05, 2016, 10:39:05 PM: I'll try to get a camera up in late July, but don't know if those bucks will even be in the area at that time of year.
Title: Re: Bear (updated 12/13/15 w/deer photos)
Post by: Curly on January 05, 2016, 11:08:48 PM: Cool pics! :tup: