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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: crowinghen on September 11, 2018, 12:11:03 PM

Title: Last meal
Post by: crowinghen on September 11, 2018, 12:11:03 PM: Interesting what was all over the bear I shot yesterday's tongue. Usually they have a mouth full of berries.
Title: Re: Last meal
Post by: 7mmfan on September 11, 2018, 12:14:21 PM: Yum. Not really what I was expecting to see. Ants are a great source of protein for bears and they can gobble a lot of them in a short amount of time when they find them. Bears, natures most proficient opportunists!
Title: Re: Last meal
Post by: Southpole on September 11, 2018, 12:19:11 PM: Let's see the rest of him!
Title: Re: Last meal
Post by: X-Force on September 11, 2018, 12:34:50 PM: Did you find it actively ripping up stumps?
Title: Re: Last meal
Post by: crowinghen on September 11, 2018, 12:35:53 PM: Quote from: Southpole on September 11, 2018, 12:19:11 PM
Let's see the rest of him!
Posted both bears I got this year in the 2018 bear thread :hunter:
Title: Re: Last meal
Post by: crowinghen on September 11, 2018, 12:41:13 PM: Quote from: X-Force on September 11, 2018, 12:34:50 PM
Did you find it actively ripping up stumps?
I couldn't tell. I saw it then it was hidden behind a stump for a minute. So it must have been doing that, I just assumed it was eating berries since the hill was covered with them. It came around the stump and exposed it's chest and that was all she wrote.
Now that I tagged out if we see any more we will just watch them and maybe try out some of our predator calls to see how they respond. Hubby has a special draw archery elk tag, so he's carrying his bow right now he can get one if it decides to come in. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Last meal
Post by: Naches Sportsman on September 11, 2018, 12:55:05 PM: They love ants and rip apart trees for them.

I've seen bears dig into ant hills on numerous occasions.
Title: Re: Last meal
Post by: elkrack on September 12, 2018, 01:11:42 AM: Hey if your lost and hungry you now know to get a handful of ants for a snack!
Title: Re: Last meal
Post by: csaaphill on September 14, 2018, 11:57:22 PM: Ants taste just like lemon drops! Seriously they do. During our survival camping thing at Fairchild Air Force base years ago as a kid, one of the air force guys brought handfuls of them for us to try. Most wouldn't, but I did and yep just like lemon drops.
Title: Re: Last meal
Post by: n_mathews13 on September 18, 2018, 05:31:59 AM: I always cut open the stomach of any bear I clean. Can learn a lot. This years bear that dad shot in spring , had a ton of ants. You could pick through and see different kinds of ants, it was cool
Title: Re: Last meal
Post by: crowinghen on September 18, 2018, 04:25:31 PM: Quote from: n_mathews13 on September 18, 2018, 05:31:59 AM
I always cut open the stomach of any bear I clean. Can learn a lot. This years bear that dad shot in spring , had a ton of ants. You could pick through and see different kinds of ants, it was cool

That's a great idea.
The first one I got this year had a mouth full of blackberries,
Title: Re: Last meal
Post by: Biggerhammer on October 08, 2018, 06:03:12 PM: The last bear I shot was so busy eating ants and trying roll a old stump out of the ground that he never heard me slip up on him. Point blanked him with a Rem700 Classic in .375 H&H. I shot him with my Leupold 2-7 on 2x. I could see all the ants crawling on his nose through the scope when I pulled the trigger and launched him off the cut bank he was on. Always wondered if it was that 260gr Accubond that killed him or the 40ft fall to the skidder Rd bellow?🙃
Title: Re: Last meal
Post by: nwwanderer on October 08, 2018, 06:24:31 PM: THUD!!!!! Pretty sure he did not feel it