Calling Bears

[hunter399]

Have lots s of bear Calls. getting excited. Rick

Free bump for hand calls 🤙.
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[dilleytech]

I was rattling with doe noises mixed in this morning and called this guy in. So ya I guess that works too. Really put a damper on a nice morning of blacktail hunting.

[hunter399]

Congrats 👏
Heck ya!

[Deer slayer]

I have a giant boar on a camera. He comes to a water hole every few days in the middle of the night. Probably also eating all the acorns on the ground. I am thinking about going out and trying to call him in. Would he be interested in a cub in distress this late in the fall?  Stick to a fawn in distress?


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[Boar]

Read Doug’s book on calling recently, came away with a couple questions…

1) can you expect to call bears off a good food source, such as in peak berry season?  Or if they are on food are they going to tend to ignore calls?

2) I never even considered electronic calls, are they legal here??  Doesn’t seem as sporting, but Doug mentions them in passing and it actually does seem safer if you can put some distance between yourself and the call source.

3) what’s the best strategy for waving off an incoming animal you can’t or don’t want to shoot…sow with cubs, cat, etc.?  Shouting or warning shot would probably blow out the area.  What’s the game plan before it gets too close and aggressive and you would have to completely blow your cover?

[dilleytech]

Read Doug’s book on calling recently, came away with a couple questions…

1) can you expect to call bears off a good food source, such as in peak berry season?  Or if they are on food are they going to tend to ignore calls?

2) I never even considered electronic calls, are they legal here??  Doesn’t seem as sporting, but Doug mentions them in passing and it actually does seem safer if you can put some distance between yourself and the call source.

3) what’s the best strategy for waving off an incoming animal you can’t or don’t want to shoot…sow with cubs, cat, etc.?  Shouting or warning shot would probably blow out the area.  What’s the game plan before it gets too close and aggressive and you would have to completely blow your cover?

1. Personal experience fat full beers don’t seem as interesting in risking a fight for food.

2. Electronic calls are legal. Not sure how it’s less spotting special reading your edition 3.

3. The over whelming odds are any animal is going to run away once they see you. Cubs are going to run up a tree and the sow will likely follow them. Just walk the other way at that point and you shouldn’t have an issue. Just calling in any animal in an area is lucky if you decide to fire a shot so be it. I have only had to do that once. If a cougar comes in shoot it.

[Webfoot]

I have called in several with a cow elk call. Not a lot of whining just single mews kinda like a lost calf.
They do seem to be bigger bears that come to this.