ORIGINAL: MeanV2
Steve, I'm envious of anyone that gets to bait and hunt Bears in their Home State. I'd love to live in some of the areas I've Hunted and be able to do my own baiting and hunt a Big chunk of the season.
Every time I've went on a Bear trip I have been as involved as possible. Days have been spent Checking and Baiting sites I wasn't hunting, instead of fishing
On the 2 Biggest Bears I killed I actually opted to set up a hang on in a different spot than the Ladder stand was set, and it worked like a charm. The one Bear I saw come in at about 60-70 yards lay down and watched that Ladder Stand for a good 20 minutes before coming in to the bait, and taking his medicine
Big Bears are not easy, nor are they a push over at a Bait. They don't get Old by being Dumb. The Last BearI killed was aged at 28.5 years old, canines were broke, teeth were in pitiful shape. I'd say this Bear would not have survived many, if any more winters.
Dan
He probably was committing suicide to help pad your ego!!!!
I think my most memorable would have to be the big old doe I killed in 2005 because I had so many deer around me and I'd owed her one for ruining a hunt the year before. I had to wait her out and was near giving up when a couple of the 16 with her popped up an moved my direction. She'd bedded 16 deer in a valley I'd seen deer bedded in in my life, and she circled the entire herd bedded them down, then took a spot out towards the front of the herd, and bedded down herself. When a pair of the yearlings popped up, she circled the entire herd again, bumping them out of their beds, including a pair of young antlered bucks, then she trotted forward to catch the other OLDER doe of the herd at the creek for a drink, appearing almost as if they were having a conversation. With all of those deer within 40yds of me in any direction, she finally came clear after cresting the bank of the creek at about 25yds, and I settled a pin and zipped her, the Wasp Jak-Hammer cut her aorta from her heart, and jellied both lungs and as she spun to run, she spray a pink mist through the arrow the entire 70yds of her "death run." It was the most spectacular thing I ever saw, and I can only wish to film something similar someday to remind me of that hunt. My second might be the big doe this year, that I killed with 12 deer within 30 yds. of me exactly 3yrs. to the date after the first mentioned.