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feeling uncertain
« on: July 17, 2014, 10:06:09 PM »
so this will be my second bear hunting season after a very late start last year I shouldn't even consider that an attempt. I have been scouting an area of GMU 460 since January and ive only gotten one picture of a small bear. I have found a lot of blackberry bushes, scat all over the road and off, prints in the mud. im starting to feel like im not setting up in a good spot. maybe im just getting jitters before the season opens. so I am curious as to what route yall would take. maybe find another spot or change gmus this late in the game :dunno:. or stick it out and hope for the best. there are bear in the area that's a given but I feel like im chasing a single bear haha.
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Re: feeling uncertain
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2014, 10:46:48 PM »
You have a pic, youre seeing sign, dont leave bear to go chase bear. Youre doubting yourself. Everything is in play except you. That'll be $500. Good luck!

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Re: feeling uncertain
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2014, 10:56:46 PM »
If you have every part of the pie there, tracks, scat, berries, etc, I would stick it out. You are bound to run into a bruin. Stay positive and consistent. You will connect. That'll be another $500 :)

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Re: feeling uncertain
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2014, 07:07:18 AM »
haha this is getting expensive. here is the only bear I have seen on my cam.
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Re: feeling uncertain
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2014, 07:16:48 AM »
Combine what those guys said. That will be another $500. See the receptionist.  :tup:
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Re: feeling uncertain
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2014, 07:21:49 AM »
PM sent. Keep at it...they are in there. It may come down to right place right time...

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Re: feeling uncertain
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2014, 07:57:45 AM »
One thing that worked for me (once) and seems to be a trend, is that bears like the thick blackberry bushes and seem to enjoy sitting on their butts in there and just munching on berries.  Unfortunately some of the best berries are in 10 year clear cuts which you can't see into for sh*t.  If there isn't a high enough point in your area to sit up and look down into the blackberries, take a tree stand up into one of the trees the loggers left so you can get a good vantage downward into the berries.  If there is scat around, berries on the bush, and thick brush, you'll eventually see one sneaky snaking around down there.

This is only one way to go about it, but it might help you.

That'll be 1 bear summer sausage when you get it.

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Re: feeling uncertain
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2014, 08:02:45 AM »
One thing that worked for me (once) and seems to be a trend, is that bears like the thick blackberry bushes and seem to enjoy sitting on their butts in there and just munching on berries.  Unfortunately some of the best berries are in 10 year clear cuts which you can't see into for sh*t.  If there isn't a high enough point in your area to sit up and look down into the blackberries, take a tree stand up into one of the trees the loggers left so you can get a good vantage downward into the berries.  If there is scat around, berries on the bush, and thick brush, you'll eventually see one sneaky snaking around down there.

This is only one way to go about it, but it might help you.

That'll be 1 bear summer sausage when you get it.
:yeah: But you forgot about the 500 bucks .... :dunno: :chuckle: :chuckle:

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Re: feeling uncertain
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2014, 11:09:12 PM »
Putting your camera right on a road like that you may as well tie balloons to it with a sign saying "FREE TRAIL CAMERA"

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Re: feeling uncertain
« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2014, 10:58:20 PM »
Putting your camera right on a road like that you may as well tie balloons to it with a sign saying "FREE TRAIL CAMERA"
it's on an old road that has 2 huge dirt mounds blocking any access. Plus I have it in the metal lock box. Pretty sure no one is getting that thing.
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Re: feeling uncertain
« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2014, 08:07:25 AM »
Tweakers gotta tweak!  They'll break anything.  Nothing is tweak-proof

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Re: feeling uncertain
« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2014, 11:04:24 PM »
In My experience tank traps won't stop people from driving where they are not supposed to in quads making it easy for them to bring in tools that would allow for them to take your camera. That and I don't want anyone to see my cameras just like I don't want them to find my stands. They may have just walked through the area without thinking twice but now that they saw your camera they may think it's a good place to hunt.

I always seem to get more pictures of bears when I set up in the timbered creek bottoms between two cuts or at the bottom of a older reproducible stand. You can see where they plow through the blackberries making tunnels and they will use these same points to enter the berry patches it seems because access may be tough otherwise...even for a bear. Set up a camera on one of those spots and you will probably get more pics than in a road.
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Re: feeling uncertain
« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2014, 11:22:43 PM »
 :yeah: good post. Can't be too carefull these days. Nice bear by the way. Good luck.

 


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