Tracking bears
01-25-2016, 02:16 PM
#11
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 9,557
You don't have to call from natural food sources. You can call from an ywhere you think bears will be. Which is almost anywhere since they move around so much.
Natural food sources if where you can sneak up on them.
Natural food sources if where you can sneak up on them.
01-25-2016, 03:45 PM
#12
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Quebec, Canada
Posts: 26
Got it, I'm a bit worried on using predator call such as a fawn in distress. There's a lot of coyotes and wolves and I might end up luring in a pack of unexpected guest. Might be overwhelmed even with a fully loaded 30-30 
01-25-2016, 04:41 PM
#13
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 9,557
You'll bring in all the predators. Lions, bobcats, bears, coyotes etc.
Just shoo away the ones you don't want. I always have a small game licence that's good all year here. If a coyote comes in....bang! The rest are safe.
Just shoo away the ones you don't want. I always have a small game licence that's good all year here. If a coyote comes in....bang! The rest are safe.
01-25-2016, 07:55 PM
#14
Super Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Trumbull County, Ohio
Posts: 9,520
The more experienced guys are saying no go on the tracking. I still hope to give it a try someday in the snow. I regularly shoot whitetail this way.... total different game I'm sure. In my area I could sit a long time before ever seeing a bear. Most people get together in groups and drive them and do pretty good. I still hope to try tracking one if I can ever cut across a track when I have snow.
-Jake
-Jake
01-26-2016, 03:39 AM
#15
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 9,230
The more experienced guys are saying no go on the tracking. I still hope to give it a try someday in the snow. I regularly shoot whitetail this way.... total different game I'm sure. In my area I could sit a long time before ever seeing a bear. Most people get together in groups and drive them and do pretty good. I still hope to try tracking one if I can ever cut across a track when I have snow.
-Jake
-Jake
01-26-2016, 06:47 PM
#16
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 612
You might have a chance in the snow, but remember to not be right on the track. Stay downwind of them, as you would tracking an elk or deer. Just close enough to still see the track or circle out 40 yards or so and back every now and then to make sure you are still parallel. Remember you are more likely to find the animal bedded away from the track, so don't stare at the track but keep eyes up and ahead (parallel and downwind) Bears will hook back around, down wind, so they can see their back trail and let their nose warn them of approaching danger. I've never tracked one, but it has been done by others. Apparently seeing the bear is a rare occasion. Getting a shot is rarer yet. Either way, you can learn a lot about an animal by tracking for several hours--shot or no shot in the end.
01-27-2016, 04:38 PM
#18
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Circleville Oh
Posts: 962
I seriously doubt that anyone could track a bear when there is no snow on the ground. I have property and a lot of other huntable land up in northern MI in good bear country and hardly ever see a track or any other evidence of them even being around. I've actually only run into a couple in the 43 years I've had the property and one was last year just at daylight on the way to my first set in May during our turkey season.
