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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: wabassguy1 on September 08, 2010, 10:50:31 PM

Title: Tagged bear
Post by: wabassguy1 on September 08, 2010, 10:50:31 PM: Just wondering what the deal with tagged bears are... there is one in the area I am hunting and just wanted to know if it was a problem bear somewhere or if they just randomly tag them..
Title: Re: Tagged bear
Post by: carpsniperg2 on September 08, 2010, 11:07:02 PM: both sometimes they have been taged and moved because they were a problem bear. but in some areas they do bear studies, to learn info on them.
Title: Re: Tagged bear
Post by: skier2480 on September 09, 2010, 05:16:17 PM: I say shoot it and send the tag in and find out. :)
Title: Re: Tagged bear
Post by: one-eyed Ross on September 10, 2010, 06:45:09 AM: Quote from: skier2480 on September 09, 2010, 05:16:17 PM
I say shoot it and send the tag in and find out. :)

Yep, that'd be my plan...unless it was a sow with cubs or just one of those tiny Boo-boo bears...
Title: Re: Tagged bear
Post by: tmike on September 10, 2010, 07:11:06 AM: Did it look like this?
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi238.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fff110%2Ftkswhanson%2FP1000298.jpg&hash=4ae163a327cf209ec2b8ed5f2467baec73b28380)
Title: Re: Tagged bear
Post by: let.it.fly on September 10, 2010, 07:54:24 AM: Quote from: tmike on September 10, 2010, 07:11:06 AM
Did it look like this?
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi238.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fff110%2Ftkswhanson%2FP1000298.jpg&hash=4ae163a327cf209ec2b8ed5f2467baec73b28380)

lol wheres my pic-a-nick basket booboo. i dont think i could shoot a bear in that position. i would just laugh. unless that was my bird feeder
Title: Re: Tagged bear
Post by: MtnMuley on September 10, 2010, 07:58:43 AM: All the ones I've seen or heard about that were tagged, were problem bears. Quite a few of them from Canada actually, that wandered down.
Seems like these days, with the number of bears, that the WDFW doesn't give them many more second chances.
Title: Re: Tagged bear
Post by: tmike on September 10, 2010, 08:14:34 AM: The tag there was his 1st and last chance. Luckily he moved on. We even quit feeding the birds long before that. He spent 15 minutes with his tongue in the holes trying to get a snack after he pulled it down.
Title: Re: Tagged bear
Post by: Wazukie on September 10, 2010, 09:12:45 AM: I harvested a sow a couple of weeks ago that had a red tag in her ear. I'm still waiting to hear from the WDFW bio bout it.
Title: Re: Tagged bear
Post by: runamuk on September 10, 2010, 09:19:44 AM: that bear is so funny sitting there stealing your bird seed.....wearing bling...silly bear
Title: Re: Tagged bear
Post by: Ridgerunner on September 10, 2010, 09:26:41 AM: Who knows where he went he hasn't been seen around my place this summer either, good thing he didn't get into my feeders.
Title: Re: Tagged bear
Post by: Hyde on September 11, 2010, 11:34:08 AM: I shot a nice bear in Alberta with an ear tag. I contacted them and found out that this bear had been trapped several times. He wasn't a problem bear, this was WAY out in the bush. The university up there was working with fish and game doing studies.