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Hunting by Game/Technique => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: tstegora on Mar 01, 2008, 07:35:49 AM
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I'm going bear hunting for the first time this year.
I would appreciate any tips as I don't know much about bear
I am pumped, my wife on the other hand is not,she bought me a muzzle because I was going to hunt with my bow and she didn't want me to through sticks at the bear.
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Where do you live?
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I live just north of brainerd,mn.
last year a 14 year old kid shot a 550 lbs. bear out where my brother lives.
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Cool, we have a lot of luck on pastry early in the season, then later on high protein bait works better.
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high protein? like what??
I have heard of the donuts for bait but what else can I use??
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I'm not sure what the minnesota regs are, but in Wisconsin, we got a heck of a deal on taco shells, the bears seemed to really like them later in the season, we also had some chocolate, and cereal, if you can get dried fruit too, that's a good choice.
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a buddy of mine works at a place in the cities that makes chips and we use them for deer and had notices the bear have been hitting it as well.
my grand father told me about dog food with grape jelly on it.
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You will have to check your regs to see what is legal to use, but just about anything from stinky to sweet will work. I use meat sraps from a bucher shop, popcorn, donuts, fruit, dog food, rolled oats with mallasas, their not to picky. I take a black 5 gallon bucket and put meat sraps in it and set it out in the sun for about a week and let it get good and ripe then hang it from a tree for an attractent. works good if ya can stand the smell. I have gagged a few times while hanging it though ;D
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Any tips on Hunting without bait? Going out Black Bear hunting for the 1st time myself. It's not legal to bait here in NY and I'm wondering how to go about it. I'm thinking about Still Hunting / Stalking rather than just sitting on stand. Any advice much appreciated...
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best bet is to find a natural food source only thing is bears are wanderers. That bear we saw last month might not go down that trail again for a long time
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for you new yorkers, my brother and i saw attractant for bears, in grape jelly scent. totally legal! ;D
just googled it. cabelas has a jelly doughnut scented attractant.
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Carefull using it you might attract some law enforcement ;D
Just couldn't resist
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you would be safe if you didn't have coffee with you! ;D
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grape jelly scented attractant.....wow what will they think of next? id better order some ASAP.....sounds like the best idea ive ever heard except...its not... i have a hard time believing that it will really work.... it makes me think of yogi and his sidekick boo boo hi-jacking some pickin-nic baskets!
guess there runnin outta ideas at Cabelas.
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lol :o
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I've tried some of the jelly attractants and didn't find them to work all that well. I agree with minnowguy to a point. I've had my best luck with fruit and donuts. Apples, pears, peaches, etc.