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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: saylean on October 04, 2016, 08:28:33 PM

Title: Bears current location
Post by: saylean on October 04, 2016, 08:28:33 PM: If you are still looking for bears, go hit the blue berry fields up high. I saw about 13 in two days this week.
Title: Re: Bears current location
Post by: quadrafire on October 04, 2016, 08:30:00 PM: Whats your intel on the east side??
Title: Re: Bears current location
Post by: saylean on October 04, 2016, 08:39:18 PM: Havent been to the east side since archery elk, but I would be hitting any left over rosehip gulleys or fruit trees that are accessible, or just flat out predator call.
Title: Re: Bears current location
Post by: KFhunter on October 04, 2016, 08:44:18 PM: apples

tons of apple trees have been seeded by bears over the years, find one in the hills with fresh piles of bear poo and set up on it.
Title: Re: Bears current location
Post by: saylean on October 04, 2016, 08:52:53 PM: He was a bit a ways away.
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Post by: justyhntr on October 05, 2016, 06:50:05 AM: We're still bumping them at lower elevations on Himalayan Blackberrys on the west side . Berrys on the edges are getting thin but in the middle of big patches they are still producing . Does make it difficult to get off a clean shot when they are the thick of things .
Title: Bears current location
Post by: Thefishguy77 on October 05, 2016, 03:29:30 PM: Any ideas on Packwood area

Edit. Just moved in to the area. Still learning it.
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Title: Re: Bears current location
Post by: Thefishguy77 on October 06, 2016, 07:45:28 PM: Thinking about heading up our of Randal. Fr26 area. Try and get up in to some fields. Not this weekend but the next.

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Title: Re: Bears current location
Post by: SpicyTacos on October 07, 2016, 07:13:36 AM: Thanks for the advice Saylean.
Title: Re: Bears current location
Post by: TriggerMike on October 12, 2016, 09:21:26 AM: Quote from: saylean on October 04, 2016, 08:28:33 PM
If you are still looking for bears, go hit the blue berry fields up high. I saw about 13 in two days this week.

How high?
Title: Re: Bears current location
Post by: getumclose on October 17, 2016, 03:47:22 PM: thats crazy
Title: Re: Bears current location
Post by: runamuk on October 17, 2016, 04:05:17 PM: Quote from: quadrafire on October 04, 2016, 08:30:00 PM
Whats your intel on the east side??
I am at about 4000 ft in the Blues and the bears are still stomping around digging and tearing up stumps. They just now are wrecking the elderberries. They are in the woods and haven't messed with my campground or cabins. Nor have they gone dumpster diving.
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Post by: maximus on October 19, 2016, 03:41:56 PM: Any intel on bear location on the wet side? Tuna trip got cancelled and need some general direction (never hunted bear before).

Thanks!
Title: Re: Bears current location
Post by: runamuk on October 19, 2016, 03:47:34 PM: Quote from: maximus on October 19, 2016, 03:41:56 PM
Any intel on bear location on the wet side? Tuna trip got cancelled and need some general direction (never hunted bear before).

Thanks!

Find the food. Look through everything Billythekidrock has written about bear hunting he has shared tons of good info over the years
Title: Re: Bears current location
Post by: stringer on October 19, 2016, 07:34:45 PM: Pm'd you
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Post by: Kit Carson on October 19, 2016, 09:02:56 PM: Just got my first deer last weekend, gonna focus only on getting my first bear now. Less than one month left and berries pretty much gone :chuckle:
I've read sayleans book, hit spots in the 448 (sultan area) and 437 (granite and verlot). Walked the logging roads and watched a lot of 3-5 year old clearcuts....found one small bear but missed :bash: would really like to see a freezer full of bear this winter!
Any PM's with help are greatly appreciated!
Title: Re: Bears current location
Post by: ghostshell on October 21, 2016, 09:34:19 AM: i am no expert but i would thing river bottoms on west side pending on area. i was heading up high on wed for a buck and stopped ascending at 5500 ft, was knee deep snow at that elevation. shot one a few hundred feet lower. the berry fields start another few hundred vert up and were covered in probly 3ft plus of snow at 6500ft based on depth at 5500ft. on oct 1 they were pretty much wilted like grapes and done at least where i go. was a early big berry year and the earliest i have seen them be done as well for a while. about this time of year my trail cams always produce busy river bottom bears also the skat i find is full of mushrooms and or fish, yet again pending on area, elevation and the bears liking, good luck.
Title: Re: Bears current location
Post by: TriggerMike on October 21, 2016, 10:54:57 AM: What are they eating on the westside now through the end of the season?
Title: Re: Bears current location
Post by: JimmyHoffa on October 21, 2016, 08:56:22 PM: Quote from: TriggerMike on October 21, 2016, 10:54:57 AM
What are they eating on the westside now through the end of the season?
black berries, rose hips, evergreen hucks, tearing up stumps, peeling trees, bear berries, gut piles, mushrooms, might even find a little Oregon grape around.