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NE Bears
« on: August 27, 2025, 08:16:58 AM »
Anyone having any luck over here in the NE? So far I’ve seen 2 legal bears (no shot opportunities) and a sow with 2 cubs. Been pretty slow. The overabundance of berries over here this year doesn’t have them concentrated in the usual areas.


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Re: NE Bears
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2025, 12:19:26 PM »
Ill be heading over Friday morning to check cameras for moose and bear hunt.   Scouting with a gun is always more productive for me.
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Re: NE Bears
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2025, 12:23:37 PM »
Ill be heading over Friday morning to check cameras for moose and bear hunt.   Scouting with a gun is always more productive for me.
Right on, good luck. You draw a moose tag over here this year?


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Re: NE Bears
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2025, 04:23:54 PM »
No luck for me.
A lot of berry food source,hot weather leads me to believe moving around at nite. A lot of other animals are moving last 5 minutes of light. Mourning/evening if your not in that hot spot at prime time.
Those are just guessing on my part.
Then Labor Day weekend, sometimes having more people out can help/hurt ,just never know.
So ya like pulling the slot machine right now.


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Re: NE Bears
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2025, 06:26:03 PM »
No luck for me.
A lot of berry food source,hot weather leads me to believe moving around at nite. A lot of other animals are moving last 5 minutes of light. Mourning/evening if your not in that hot spot at prime time.
Those are just guessing on my part.
Then Labor Day weekend, sometimes having more people out can help/hurt ,just never know.
So ya like pulling the slot machine right now.
Agreed, the bears I’ve put eyes on have been very close to deep dark timber on hot days. Not moving around much at all. I’m going to get out and do an evening hunt soon, I’ve been out from 5am-11am most mornings.


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Re: NE Bears
« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2025, 05:58:05 AM »
Ill be heading over Friday morning to check cameras for moose and bear hunt.   Scouting with a gun is always more productive for me.
Right on, good luck. You draw a moose tag over here this year?

Yea, I drew  a Selkirk tag.  Ill be checking cameras and  learning some more country, and maybe taking a bear if I get a chance.


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Re: NE Bears
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2025, 06:59:12 AM »
all the bear hunting I have done up there this time of year the bears will stay out in the am if its shaded and same in evening if a hillside shades they will move out even if its 90 deg day asl long as there is shade

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Re: NE Bears
« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2025, 07:11:24 AM »
all the bear hunting I have done up there this time of year the bears will stay out in the am if its shaded and same in evening if a hillside shades they will move out even if its 90 deg day asl long as there is shade
The problem we’re having this year is the berries are so plentiful that they aren’t being forced out of to the usual open slopes to find them. That paired with 90+ degree days has kept them in the thicker stuff recently from what I’ve seen.


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Re: NE Bears
« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2025, 07:15:18 AM »
Ill be heading over Friday morning to check cameras for moose and bear hunt.   Scouting with a gun is always more productive for me.
Right on, good luck. You draw a moose tag over here this year?

Yea, I drew  a Selkirk tag.  Ill be checking cameras and  learning some more country, and maybe taking a bear if I get a chance.


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Awesome man, best of luck. I live in 49 degrees north but I’ve spent some time in Selkirk, mainly on the timber company land on the west wide of the unit.


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Re: NE Bears
« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2025, 07:38:44 AM »
We have been over a few times scouting for my son’s huckleberry moose tag and we have only seen one bear over there so far. Tried to get my wife on it but he saw us at the same time so he was already on the move and it didn’t come together. He did bump a cow moose out of the next draw though that we wouldn’t have seen because it was also buried in the willows trying to stay cool. The fresh sign and trail cam pictures show more but they are laying low in the heat and the berries are everywhere so they don’t have to move far for food.

 


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