Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: Kc_Kracker on October 30, 2022, 09:20:08 PM
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I'm headed home and I come across a huge clear cut I've never seen before so I decide to stop and sit on it a while just to see if there's any signs of life around. Then I remember that I just bought a lil bleat can so I decide to play with it. That gets boring and I'm about to take off so just before I'm ready to leave I decide to see if it will gain any attention if I bleet over and over Non-Stop. I can tell you yes it does. At that point it apparently starts working as a predator or distress call. Because it gained the attention of a bear and brought him in at about 10 miles an hour crashing through the brush before I could figure out what direction it was coming from he was about 10 yd from me, that'll get the heart pumping! And that is exactly why I've never used a distress call :chuckle: sadly by the time I figured out what it was and where it was at and we locked eyes by the time I grab my gun he vanished into the brush like a ghost :bash: I spent 10 years on here reading your guy's stories about bears crashing in at a high speed with distress calls and I've always purposely hoped to not experience that :chuckle:
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Sounds a bit exhilarating! I'm glad to hear it worked for you. I was archery hunting earlier this year and the area I was in had a good bit of bear sign. I debated giving the distress call a few tries. I sat there and debated it a bit and decided maybe the pointy stick wasn't the best close quarters moving target weapon system. Decided to hold off until I at least had a boom stick in hand. Glad you got to see a bear at least!
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That’s progress.
Keep after it. :tup:
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It was supposed to call in a deer not a bear lol
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I think with everything going on with less ungulates and more predators. It’s nice to know different ways to call in predators. I just ordered the ultimate guide to black bear hunting. I know the seasons basically over but I want to do my part. Thanks for the report.
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I know more than one guy who has had bear respond to fawn and cow/calf calls and no amount of arm waving and yelling stopped the bear. It can happen so fast you must be prepared.
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Little Pathfinder had a similar significant emotional event with a predator call and his bear this August. It tried coming up into the tree with him. Died at the foot of the ladder. :yike: Mamma doesn't get to hear that story for a few years... :chuckle:
