Idaho Fall Black Bear Hunt
07-06-2020, 12:54 PM
#22
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 381
First, you got to understand I dont have a pickup. I cant afford one at the present time.
However, I have a 1995 subaru legacy wagon with 4 wheel drive that is reliable 95% of the time. I brought home a field dressed deer in that car, as well as a lot of ducks and geese. It's a good hunting vehicle. Brought home plenty of kills in it. I don't know if it'll be able to handle a heavy bear or not, though. Never tried.
And also, no, my buddy is not scouting right now. He's been a little busy, and I want to scout with him. It will have to wait until after my nasal surgery.
Hope this answers your question.
Jared
07-06-2020, 01:03 PM
#23
Nontypical Buck
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Aha. I was thinking if you have a truck or your buddy does, you can always use a come-along and a chain or thick rope to pull a bear up a ramp into the back of a truck. Might take a little more figuring to get one into the back of a Subaru. Does your buddy have a truck? Or do either of you have access to a trailer? Just throwing out some ideas to think about.
07-06-2020, 01:06 PM
#24
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Oct 2015
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Aha. I was thinking if you have a truck or your buddy does, you can always use a come-along and a chain or thick rope to pull a bear up a ramp into the back of a truck. Might take a little more figuring to get one into the back of a Subaru. Does your buddy have a truck? Or do either of you have access to a trailer? Just throwing out some ideas to think about.
anyway, I might be able to pick up a new vehicle that can tow it soon, but I have to figure some things out first. Finances, I'm sure you understand.
07-06-2020, 01:20 PM
#25
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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J, get out there and hunt brother! We all started somewhere and everyone that's ever hunted had that first time experience with each new animal.
Don't hurt yourself financially worrying about a "hunting vehicle" lots of people have made do with what they have just fine.
Worst case, you'll have a fun time in the woods. Best case, you get "lucky" and bring home what you're after
Best thing you can do is get out there and learn it.
-Jake
Don't hurt yourself financially worrying about a "hunting vehicle" lots of people have made do with what they have just fine.
Worst case, you'll have a fun time in the woods. Best case, you get "lucky" and bring home what you're after
Best thing you can do is get out there and learn it.
-Jake
07-06-2020, 01:32 PM
#26
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 381
J, get out there and hunt brother! We all started somewhere and everyone that's ever hunted had that first time experience with each new animal.
Don't hurt yourself financially worrying about a "hunting vehicle" lots of people have made do with what they have just fine.
Worst case, you'll have a fun time in the woods. Best case, you get "lucky" and bring home what you're after
Best thing you can do is get out there and learn it.
-Jake
Don't hurt yourself financially worrying about a "hunting vehicle" lots of people have made do with what they have just fine.
Worst case, you'll have a fun time in the woods. Best case, you get "lucky" and bring home what you're after
Best thing you can do is get out there and learn it.
-Jake
Speaking of which, I'm planning on doing a deer hunt this hunting season also in October. I've hunted deer before, I don't need much advice on that. Took two in my life so far. After that, it's Duck and Goose season, my favorite. I've actually been working on my duck and Goose calling.
I'm getting off subject, back to the bear hunting subject.
As soon as I'm done recovering from my surgery, I'm going to scout out the spot with my buddy.
07-06-2020, 01:40 PM
#27
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 2,743
I agree, you don't have to have every gadget under the sun to hunt and be good at it
I started hunting on foot, walking 3-4 hours some times to get places, THANK GOD< I never killed any deer on some of them early hunts LOL
but I sure did learn a LOT about deer, habitat they like, scouting,. finding them and then it also taught me the things I needed to add to be better equipped with what I could afford, as my budget back then was tiny if at all!
it also got me to meet and learn some things from others I ran into while hunting, heck my first deer I shot I was about 2 miles from my uncles house where I stayed at to hunt, walking every day from his place to where I hunted!
after the shot,(archery hunting)
I was at a loss almost as the shot wasn't the best and that deer ran for over a mile with me tracking it, the WRONG WAY from my uncles place
as I was walking out, after deciding to let it go and try and go find help!
I actually ran into a older guy I some what knew , he asked me how things were and what the HECK, I was doing so far from my uncles place,
I explained things and he helped me track and find that deer, drag it out to a old logging road in the woods and hauled it back to my uncles for me in his truck
Talk about getting lucky !
But I never let some of them WHAT IF"S stop me from going hunting and learning! and I am very glad I didn;t let them, as , I might have learned a lot of things the hard way by doing wrong, but it sure made me into a much better hunter IMO< due to them hard lessons learned, as you tend to remember them better than when every thing is giving to you easy!
so, just cause you DON"T have a truck or?? you can still go out and hunt and even NOT shoot anything and still learn a LOT, solo, or with others, doesn;t matter, its being OUT THERE that counts!
and as for your vehicle, maybe you can just add a trailer hitch to what you got, be the cheapest way, if you already have a trailer, and its not a BIG trailer, my friends use there Subaru to haul dirt bikes and atv's and even snowmobiles at times, they claim tow well and get great MPG''s too LOL
also something to keep in mind, many GAME dept's will HELP you recover a dead bear if you need help
I actually think its part of there JOB if they have time to
just like State troopers can help you change a flat tire, few maybe know this and maybe fewer will DO so if asked anymore, but at one time it was p[art of there JOB description! if not, they many times can at least help, get you help!
so, keep that in mind or look into it! be another option maybe for you if things go right!
I started hunting on foot, walking 3-4 hours some times to get places, THANK GOD< I never killed any deer on some of them early hunts LOL
but I sure did learn a LOT about deer, habitat they like, scouting,. finding them and then it also taught me the things I needed to add to be better equipped with what I could afford, as my budget back then was tiny if at all!
it also got me to meet and learn some things from others I ran into while hunting, heck my first deer I shot I was about 2 miles from my uncles house where I stayed at to hunt, walking every day from his place to where I hunted!
after the shot,(archery hunting)
I was at a loss almost as the shot wasn't the best and that deer ran for over a mile with me tracking it, the WRONG WAY from my uncles place
as I was walking out, after deciding to let it go and try and go find help!
I actually ran into a older guy I some what knew , he asked me how things were and what the HECK, I was doing so far from my uncles place,
I explained things and he helped me track and find that deer, drag it out to a old logging road in the woods and hauled it back to my uncles for me in his truck
Talk about getting lucky !
But I never let some of them WHAT IF"S stop me from going hunting and learning! and I am very glad I didn;t let them, as , I might have learned a lot of things the hard way by doing wrong, but it sure made me into a much better hunter IMO< due to them hard lessons learned, as you tend to remember them better than when every thing is giving to you easy!
so, just cause you DON"T have a truck or?? you can still go out and hunt and even NOT shoot anything and still learn a LOT, solo, or with others, doesn;t matter, its being OUT THERE that counts!
and as for your vehicle, maybe you can just add a trailer hitch to what you got, be the cheapest way, if you already have a trailer, and its not a BIG trailer, my friends use there Subaru to haul dirt bikes and atv's and even snowmobiles at times, they claim tow well and get great MPG''s too LOL
also something to keep in mind, many GAME dept's will HELP you recover a dead bear if you need help
I actually think its part of there JOB if they have time to
just like State troopers can help you change a flat tire, few maybe know this and maybe fewer will DO so if asked anymore, but at one time it was p[art of there JOB description! if not, they many times can at least help, get you help!
so, keep that in mind or look into it! be another option maybe for you if things go right!
07-06-2020, 01:51 PM
#28
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 381
I agree, you don't have to have every gadget under the sun to hunt and be good at it
I started hunting on foot, walking 3-4 hours some times to get places, THANK GOD< I never killed any deer on some of them early hunts LOL
but I sure did learn a LOT about deer, habitat they like, scouting,. finding them and then it also taught me the things I needed to add to be better equipped with what I could afford, as my budget back then was tiny if at all!
it also got me to meet and learn some things from others I ran into while hunting, heck my first deer I shot I was about 2 miles from my uncles house where I stayed at to hunt, walking every day from his place to where I hunted!
after the shot,(archery hunting)
I was at a loss almost as the shot wasn't the best and that deer ran for over a mile with me tracking it, the WRONG WAY from my uncles place
as I was walking out, after deciding to let it go and try and go find help!
I actually ran into a older guy I some what knew , he asked me how things were and what the HECK, I was doing so far from my uncles place,
I explained things and he helped me track and find that deer, drag it out to a old logging road in the woods and hauled it back to my uncles for me in his truck
Talk about getting lucky !
But I never let some of them WHAT IF"S stop me from going hunting and learning! and I am very glad I didn;t let them, as , I might have learned a lot of things the hard way by doing wrong, but it sure made me into a much better hunter IMO< due to them hard lessons learned, as you tend to remember them better than when every thing is giving to you easy!
so, just cause you DON"T have a truck or?? you can still go out and hunt and even NOT shoot anything and still learn a LOT, solo, or with others, doesn;t matter, its being OUT THERE that counts!
and as for your vehicle, maybe you can just add a trailer hitch to what you got, be the cheapest way, if you already have a trailer, and its not a BIG trailer, my friends use there Subaru to haul dirt bikes and atv's and even snowmobiles at times, they claim tow well and get great MPG''s too LOL
also something to keep in mind, many GAME dept's will HELP you recover a dead bear if you need help
I actually think its part of there JOB if they have time to
just like State troopers can help you change a flat tire, few maybe know this and maybe fewer will DO so if asked anymore, but at one time it was p[art of there JOB description! if not, they many times can at least help, get you help!
so, keep that in mind or look into it! be another option maybe for you if things go right!
I started hunting on foot, walking 3-4 hours some times to get places, THANK GOD< I never killed any deer on some of them early hunts LOL
but I sure did learn a LOT about deer, habitat they like, scouting,. finding them and then it also taught me the things I needed to add to be better equipped with what I could afford, as my budget back then was tiny if at all!
it also got me to meet and learn some things from others I ran into while hunting, heck my first deer I shot I was about 2 miles from my uncles house where I stayed at to hunt, walking every day from his place to where I hunted!
after the shot,(archery hunting)
I was at a loss almost as the shot wasn't the best and that deer ran for over a mile with me tracking it, the WRONG WAY from my uncles place
as I was walking out, after deciding to let it go and try and go find help!
I actually ran into a older guy I some what knew , he asked me how things were and what the HECK, I was doing so far from my uncles place,
I explained things and he helped me track and find that deer, drag it out to a old logging road in the woods and hauled it back to my uncles for me in his truck
Talk about getting lucky !
But I never let some of them WHAT IF"S stop me from going hunting and learning! and I am very glad I didn;t let them, as , I might have learned a lot of things the hard way by doing wrong, but it sure made me into a much better hunter IMO< due to them hard lessons learned, as you tend to remember them better than when every thing is giving to you easy!
so, just cause you DON"T have a truck or?? you can still go out and hunt and even NOT shoot anything and still learn a LOT, solo, or with others, doesn;t matter, its being OUT THERE that counts!
and as for your vehicle, maybe you can just add a trailer hitch to what you got, be the cheapest way, if you already have a trailer, and its not a BIG trailer, my friends use there Subaru to haul dirt bikes and atv's and even snowmobiles at times, they claim tow well and get great MPG''s too LOL
also something to keep in mind, many GAME dept's will HELP you recover a dead bear if you need help
I actually think its part of there JOB if they have time to
just like State troopers can help you change a flat tire, few maybe know this and maybe fewer will DO so if asked anymore, but at one time it was p[art of there JOB description! if not, they many times can at least help, get you help!
so, keep that in mind or look into it! be another option maybe for you if things go right!
07-16-2020, 03:05 PM
#30
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Tug Hill NY
Posts: 420
What do you use for deer hunting? Generally speaking, if it kills deer it will kill a bear just fine, though I agree a heavier caliber than .243 is wise....270, 30-06, .308, etc. all are good rounds (though I am partial to 45-70 
) Why not go out this fall? if you are deer hunting, shot placement is fundamentally the same, gutting is the same, you just need to figure the baiting angle out. ( I have always gone with an outfitter, and he took care of it). Just respect the meat. Bears are notoriously fatty, and the hot sun/warm temperatures can turn the meat easily, and the black hide soaks up the heat. Cool the meat as soon as you can and keep it out of the sun.
) Why not go out this fall? if you are deer hunting, shot placement is fundamentally the same, gutting is the same, you just need to figure the baiting angle out. ( I have always gone with an outfitter, and he took care of it). Just respect the meat. Bears are notoriously fatty, and the hot sun/warm temperatures can turn the meat easily, and the black hide soaks up the heat. Cool the meat as soon as you can and keep it out of the sun.