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Title: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: buckmaster303 on August 14, 2016, 11:43:40 PM
I have been in vail for the past few days looking high and low swamps and creeks and still no sign of any bear not sure if there are really to many bear in there or if anyone has had any luck that would be great to hear I know it has been really hot but ive never not seen a bear at some point even with it being 1000 yards away...... :dunno:
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: bankwalker on August 14, 2016, 11:55:06 PM
Hunted Vail for a handful of years for deer. Never seen a bear in there or much sign. Did have a group of guys going crazy after spotting 1 smaller bear a few times in two consecutive days. And that's only the 2nd time I've heard of any guys seeing a bear in there. The other time a young kid killed a very nice bear.
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: buckmaster303 on August 15, 2016, 12:02:46 AM
ya I usually hunt off the alder side back in there was told a sighting of a nice bear from the lookout buy the dam looking at the clear cut across from 702 but was in there today and nothing to hot im assuming. thinking of trying some other areas I guess.
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: buckmaster303 on August 15, 2016, 12:20:12 AM
thinking trying up towards greenwood lake this week as well herd a lot of bear up in that area!
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: PolarBear on August 15, 2016, 12:29:18 AM
Saturday we found some fresh scat and really nice tracks in a place where my daughter and I tracked a huge one in the snow last December. We plan putting some time in on him next weekend. All the sign that we found was in the timber and not near any of the higher open hillsides. We ran into a guy watching a paticular hillside with his black lab. I think that I have seen him on this site.
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: buckmaster303 on August 15, 2016, 03:55:45 AM
thank you for the input I shall wait to hear a few others as well thanks again!
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: yorketransport on August 15, 2016, 05:04:01 AM
They run hounds out there in the spring to manage the bear population. Not sure how many they took this year, but last year the hound hunters took 43 bear out of Vail according to the security guy. I see a few out there every year including one small one yesterday morning. It was on a hillside about 1200 yards away, so I was happy to just watch it for a couple minutes before it wandered off.
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: Skyvalhunter on August 15, 2016, 05:30:21 AM
Nope
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: Thefisherman83 on August 15, 2016, 12:11:23 PM
My camera spotted this one in there.  Wandering around in the heat of the day to boot!
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: buckmaster303 on August 15, 2016, 12:22:07 PM
They run hounds out there in the spring to manage the bear population. Not sure how many they took this year, but last year the hound hunters took 43 bear out of Vail according to the security guy. I see a few out there every year including one small one yesterday morning. It was on a hillside about 1200 yards away, so I was happy to just watch it for a couple minutes before it wandered off.

were you up high or lower I usually hunt the left side when I go in but think I might try the other this evening I know they are in there just a matter of where.
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: actionshooter on August 15, 2016, 12:31:47 PM
They run hounds out there in the spring to manage the bear population. Not sure how many they took this year, but last year the hound hunters took 43 bear out of Vail according to the security guy. I see a few out there every year including one small one yesterday morning. It was on a hillside about 1200 yards away, so I was happy to just watch it for a couple minutes before it wandered off.
This is basically what I have been told also.
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: JeffRaines on August 15, 2016, 01:40:37 PM
While I haven't laid eyes on a bear yet I've been seeing sign. Its all really small though, so I wouldn't go in expecting to take a monster.
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: buckmaster303 on August 15, 2016, 02:17:26 PM
no to worried about a monster I just would like some bear sausage is all I know theres a lake up there somewhere I gotta try to find on the map uncle has taken a few nice ones from around the area.
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: baldhills on August 15, 2016, 05:41:23 PM
Nothing yet, been out every M-F since the opener.  Seeing sign but just no bear.  I have also heard that they take out bears in the spring because of the damage to the trees.  Just keep looking they will show themselves.   :tup:
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: brew on August 15, 2016, 05:50:31 PM
My camera spotted this one in there.  Wandering around in the heat of the day to boot!
can i ask why you positioned your cam there ?...the surrounding brush looks very tight/thick so just wondering what made you put the cam there?
good looking bear though
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: yorketransport on August 15, 2016, 10:07:35 PM

were you up high or lower I usually hunt the left side when I go in but think I might try the other this evening I know they are in there just a matter of where.

I was up high when I saw this one. There are a lot of good berry patched up at the top.

no to worried about a monster I just would like some bear sausage is all I know theres a lake up there somewhere I gotta try to find on the map uncle has taken a few nice ones from around the area.

I may know the lake you're talking about and it's not far from where I saw the little bear. It's a great spot for just about everything.
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: buckmaster303 on August 16, 2016, 03:02:18 AM
I like to hunt more towards the back side of alder off the 3190 area I know of one area I see big droppings of a bear during deer season past 4 years but nothing so far this year maybe I will try to go up high this week seeming to be a little better of a idea buddy has seen 2 cats in the past week up high as well so I will keep you posted on me seeing anything.
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: Skyvalhunter on August 16, 2016, 05:22:40 AM
Alder can be a busy place sometimes.
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: PolarBear on August 16, 2016, 09:36:16 AM
It is supposed to be 97 degrees on Saturday. I'm thinking that we are going to give that bear another week to let things cool down a bit. I lost a 300 pound bear up at Clearwater years ago due to heat spoilage and swore that I wouldn't take that chance again.
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: Thefisherman83 on August 16, 2016, 01:23:10 PM
My camera spotted this one in there.  Wandering around in the heat of the day to boot!
can i ask why you positioned your cam there ?...the surrounding brush looks very tight/thick so just wondering what made you put the cam there?
good looking bear though

It was the only "tree" in the area and it was a brand new camera, I wasn't sure how well the "wide angle lens" was going to work.  It obviously didn't work well and the camera has been moved.  I know there is a big bull in the area, that's why I was dead set on getting it in there. 
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: brew on August 16, 2016, 06:19:34 PM
My camera spotted this one in there.  Wandering around in the heat of the day to boot!
can i ask why you positioned your cam there ?...the surrounding brush looks very tight/thick so just wondering what made you put the cam there?
good looking bear though

It was the only "tree" in the area and it was a brand new camera, I wasn't sure how well the "wide angle lens" was going to work.  It obviously didn't work well and the camera has been moved.  I know there is a big bull in the area, that's why I was dead set on getting it in there.
copy...was just wondering due to the position of the cam how you were able to get a point blank pic of that bear.  great job on that and hope you can track down some bulls.  last year i only saw 3 elk up there and they were all at the end of august and two were 6 pts and one was a 6x7.  they were all on the deschutes side...never saw them again although we also had trail cams out in those areas as well
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: buckmaster303 on August 16, 2016, 07:07:07 PM
I had just ran across 6 shooter bulls and they were nice I don't really hunt the area they were in because it has had the gate closed for so long but now that they keep it open I just might have to set up my cams! heading out tomorrow in search of the bear again will keep you all posted.
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: Thefisherman83 on August 17, 2016, 06:33:24 AM
My camera spotted this one in there.  Wandering around in the heat of the day to boot!
can i ask why you positioned your cam there ?...the surrounding brush looks very tight/thick so just wondering what made you put the cam there?
good looking bear though

It was the only "tree" in the area and it was a brand new camera, I wasn't sure how well the "wide angle lens" was going to work.  It obviously didn't work well and the camera has been moved.  I know there is a big bull in the area, that's why I was dead set on getting it in there.
copy...was just wondering due to the position of the cam how you were able to get a point blank pic of that bear.  great job on that and hope you can track down some bulls.  last year i only saw 3 elk up there and they were all at the end of august and two were 6 pts and one was a 6x7.  they were all on the deschutes side...never saw them again although we also had trail cams out in those areas as well

I found a couple. 

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/board,36.0.html
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: The100Road on August 17, 2016, 05:09:12 PM
I'm thinking about heading in there tomorrow to take a look. Have never gotten a bear before.

For those of you that have seen them in vail are the clearings a place a could glass for them with some luck? Or do you usually see them in the thick and dark sh**?
Title: Re: Any luck in vail for bear?
Post by: brew on August 17, 2016, 06:37:04 PM
i would guess that 90% of the time they are in the deep, dark, cool stuff but they have to come out to eat sometime.  My plan once the weather gets below africa hot level is to try and call them in the thick stuff and set up in a cleared area that has food in the low light periods
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