Trail Camera Surprise

[edgarspencer]

According to Steve Hodges, a registered NH Guide, This guy is a 500+ pounder. He's a big lug for sure, and loves peanuts. It doesn't seem to matter where I hang that feeder, He finds it and unhooks it. He will sit there for an hour and eat them, one at a time.

[Steve Hodges]

He has not missed many meals that's for sure He has all the marks of a huge bear. Tiny ears, a melon of a head, no neck and short legs. And not much scares him!!

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

According to Steve Hodges, a registered NH Guide, This guy is a 500+ pounder. He's a big lug for sure, and loves peanuts. It doesn't seem to matter where I hang that feeder, He finds it and unhooks it. He will sit there for an hour and eat them, one at a time.

My buddy that used to live right outside of Newfoundland PA sent me a video he took about 15 years ago of a blackie looking at his neighbors bird feeders . This guy would put broadcast timed feeders up in the big hemlocks hung with dog chains . Anyway Mr. Blackie sat under the feeder then you could see him look the tree limb back to the trunk and the trunk down to the ground . He then stood up walked over to the trunk climbed up went out on the limb pulled the broadcast feeder up and shook it until most of the seed was on the ground dropped the feeder climbed back down and ate the sunflower seeds . Wish I still had the video I’d post it .

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Stan Hillis

Is there any reasonable way to hunt them without baiting them? Just wondering.

Wonder if anyone hunts them with dogs anymore.

Thanks, Stan

Lot of bear hunting clubs in the valley of VA as well as the upper Piedmont region of VA . Lot of times those guys would run a bear and once tree’d they’d pull the dogs off and not kill the bear . To a lot of them the chase was all of it for them .

[edgarspencer]

Connecticut, largely populated by entitled prigs, has yet to enact a bear hunting season. Voters continue to turn down a solution to a problem they have been complaining about. They still feel bears can be taught to 'respect' human property, and forage in a nonexistent habitat.
As for me, a public hunting season is necessary. I personally have no interest in shooting a bear. I have yet to eat bear meat that was edible and I have no room for trophys. I have more than enough land to share, and as long as they don't mess with me, I won't mess with them.

[Keavin Nelson]

Stalking bears........my only bear hunt in my early teens was tracking a bear in 8" of fresh snow with a friend of my father who had bear fever! We were three hours into it, and stopped about noon to eat an orange. The friend "Moe" smoked, and was getting tuckered, standing there at the top of a hill, we heard the shot across the valley. When we got there, the bear was tagged!
As to eating bear, tried it twice leaving with no reason to go find one of my own!!!