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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: MountainWalk on May 04, 2008, 09:23:29 PM

Title: bears and stinging nettle
Post by: MountainWalk on May 04, 2008, 09:23:29 PM: ive seen bears walking through stinging nettle on my property before, so i know it doenst bother them, but do any of you guys know if bears eat the stuff? especially when its younger?
Title: Re: bears and stinging nettle
Post by: HarborHunter3 on May 06, 2008, 07:27:51 PM: No idea but if they will eat battery acid, let bees sting them, drink a cooler of Rayonier it wouldn't suprise me. :o
Title: Re: bears and stinging nettle
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on May 06, 2008, 07:29:29 PM: eat battery acid?
Title: Re: bears and stinging nettle
Post by: HarborHunter3 on May 06, 2008, 07:45:37 PM: Yeah bears have ripped the tops off of batteries and ate the acid. That's an old story too. No car batteries that I'm aware of. lol He might have a stomach ache after that.
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Post by: boneaddict on May 06, 2008, 08:25:14 PM: I think the term they will eat anything means they willl eat anything.
Title: Re: bears and stinging nettle
Post by: billythekidrock on May 07, 2008, 05:59:52 AM: I have found lots of bear crap with surveyors ribbon and plastic from gas/oil jugs in it.
Title: Re: bears and stinging nettle
Post by: boneaddict on May 07, 2008, 06:21:37 AM: Yep, about 5 minutes after they eat it, they *censored* it out the other end. It doesn't stay long in there. Another vivid memory back in th eday as a kid, we put a fruit crate filled with pears out. A bear came in and ate them and just aboutthe exact distance behind the crate was a pile of *censored* out, chewed pears. In one end out the other. Could have jsut re-used them I think. :)
Title: Re: bears and stinging nettle
Post by: Skyvalhunter on May 07, 2008, 06:24:28 AM: Did you make pear butter with it Bone? :puke:
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Post by: boneaddict on May 07, 2008, 06:25:14 AM: It needed one more refining.
Title: Re: bears and stinging nettle
Post by: boneaddict on May 07, 2008, 06:27:06 AM: Anyone remember the picture of the pilke of bear crap withthe wrist watch and candy bar wrapper in it....it was circulating as a joke when Treadwell got munched. I suppose its not really funny, or wouldn't be for anybody BUT him.
Title: Re: bears and stinging nettle
Post by: WDFW-SUX on May 07, 2008, 06:40:11 AM: Quote
I suppose its not really funny

I actually still get a chuckle when I think about him :chuckle:

:tree1:
Title: Re: bears and stinging nettle
Post by: HarborHunter3 on May 07, 2008, 09:52:19 AM: I've seen em when they eat apples and pears.

It's nice having an orchard on your property. :chuckle:

Up in Alaska they go ofter quad seats. Something in the rubber or something. Bite marks and even chunks missing I guess.
Title: Re: bears and stinging nettle
Post by: cohoho on May 07, 2008, 02:16:26 PM: Stining nettles, heck they go through Alaskan Devils Club like pop corn at a movie theater....I've had them eat my duck tape off a tree stand plus some of the aluminum, eat a plastic bucket full of honey that was supposed to be dripping but they ate the wire holding the bucket, eat into a metal can of old bomb shelter candy, eat a trail camera, well lets just state----- their animals.... and the best to date, crush a 55 gallon barrel from the top down to about 3/4 down, and chewed the sides open, how strong would that have to be, it wasn't a cheap made barrel either... The most determined, smart-thick headed animals out there -is my opinion.

Have you seen the video clip of a black bear in Yosemite, it figured out how to bend the window frame out of cars to get into a cooler and doritos! I'll see if I can find it anywhere.
Title: Re: bears and stinging nettle
Post by: HarborHunter3 on May 07, 2008, 03:24:53 PM: That would be a sweet vid to watch! Hope you can find it.

When the were building the Alaska pipeline my dad watched a trapped Barren Ground Grizzly take the back door off a bus with one swipe.

They can also delicately poke out the glass of a front windshield too. :chuckle:
Title: Re: bears and stinging nettle
Post by: billythekidrock on May 07, 2008, 04:59:23 PM: Quote
Have you seen the video clip of a black bear in Yosemite, it figured out how to bend the window frame out of cars to get into a cooler and doritos! I'll see if I can find it anywhere.

yea, I saw it awhile back. Pretty crazy.
Title: Re: bears and stinging nettle
Post by: MountainWalk on May 07, 2008, 08:47:27 PM: ok, i shall refine the question.. has anyone seen or heard of bears actively seeking stinging nettle?
Title: Re: bears and stinging nettle
Post by: billythekidrock on May 08, 2008, 05:58:50 AM: No.
Title: Re: bears and stinging nettle
Post by: ICEMAN on May 09, 2008, 06:40:12 AM: Quote from: HarborHunter3 on May 07, 2008, 09:52:19 AM
Up in Alaska they go ofter quad seats. Something in the rubber or something. Bite marks and even chunks missing I guess.

Maybe the bears like sweaty azz or corn or something? :puke: