Posted: 7/10/2025 6:20:49 PM EDT
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Second bear I’ve caught on camera up in the mountains I play in. Seen plenty of deer up here but not many bear. Archery season opens Saturday. Tempted to try and make a go at him but that heat has got me wanting to stay home  No bait allowed where I’m at so it would be just pure luck bumping into dude. Edit- I was wrong on the season opener, not for a couple more weeks Attached File |
Watching the kids shoot Pieeater's 1919 was great. Nothing warms the heart more than seeing a little kid kneeling in a pile of brass and links.-Pthfndr after the Nov 13th NorCal shoot
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Originally Posted By GlockPride: OP, where are you located? TN? No way I’d hunt in 103*. Heck no, that meat would be cooked by the time you got the hide off it. I’m in California. Hadn’t considered the meat going bad that fast that’s a good point. |
Watching the kids shoot Pieeater's 1919 was great. Nothing warms the heart more than seeing a little kid kneeling in a pile of brass and links.-Pthfndr after the Nov 13th NorCal shoot
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Is it really that hot, or is that a fluke of the camera being in the sun? I have no idea where you are, but I checked the forecast of a few central and northern CA towns, and none of them are particularly hot, 70's, 80's, a few days in the 90's in the coming week. You have to be more mindful of the meat, but that's something most hunters have to deal with. That weather is probably a welcome cold compared to what many hunters in the south east like missisippi, alabama, and georgia have to deal with. Be a little more careful about your shots, if you are confident in your shot, maybe follow up a little sooner. Keep frozen milk jugs of ice in a small cooler. That will get get meat cooling sooner as you get to the store to get more ice if needed. You can put a blanket over that cooler, frozen water jugs keep well for quite a few days. If you can handle it, I would not bone out any meat in the field. On the other hand, if you normally drag out a whole animal, consider if quartering it may be faster. Just keep time in mind. Here's how I dealt with the heat the last time I had it. I was antelope hunting, and the temp at the time I shot it was mid to upper 80's. It was like 2pm in the afternoon, sun high, antelope land with no shade at all. The benefit I had was I watched it go down, and didn't wait at all. The second it went down I was going over to it. It wasn't dead 2 minutes before I was gutting it. I normally like to bone out meat to make it lighter, but I knew I had to make up time. I skinned it fast, and got it quartered. I didn't waste any time letting the meat hang or anything, there was nothing to hang it from. I just put it in the pack, strapped the rifle on, took the hide in one arm, and the head in the other and walked out. At the truck I had ice jugs in the cooler, and the meat was already cool to the touch when I got to a gas station to get ice to really get it cold. It's all about efficiency in the heat, even if it is more work, but you can do it. Even at 100, you can make it work. If you get it into shade, that plus wind can cool that meat down quite a bit. Use plenty of game bags, dont over fill them, and space it out so there is plenty of area for the bags to cool off. |
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Originally Posted By fgshoot: Is it really that hot, or is that a fluke of the camera being in the sun? I have no idea where you are, but I checked the forecast of a few central and northern CA towns, and none of them are particularly hot, 70's, 80's, a few days in the 90's in the coming week. You have to be more mindful of the meat, but that's something most hunters have to deal with. That weather is probably a welcome cold compared to what many hunters in the south east like missisippi, alabama, and georgia have to deal with. Be a little more careful about your shots, if you are confident in your shot, maybe follow up a little sooner. Keep frozen milk jugs of ice in a small cooler. That will get get meat cooling sooner as you get to the store to get more ice if needed. You can put a blanket over that cooler, frozen water jugs keep well for quite a few days. If you can handle it, I would not bone out any meat in the field. On the other hand, if you normally drag out a whole animal, consider if quartering it may be faster. Just keep time in mind. Here's how I dealt with the heat the last time I had it. I was antelope hunting, and the temp at the time I shot it was mid to upper 80's. It was like 2pm in the afternoon, sun high, antelope land with no shade at all. The benefit I had was I watched it go down, and didn't wait at all. The second it went down I was going over to it. It wasn't dead 2 minutes before I was gutting it. I normally like to bone out meat to make it lighter, but I knew I had to make up time. I skinned it fast, and got it quartered. I didn't waste any time letting the meat hang or anything, there was nothing to hang it from. I just put it in the pack, strapped the rifle on, took the hide in one arm, and the head in the other and walked out. At the truck I had ice jugs in the cooler, and the meat was already cool to the touch when I got to a gas station to get ice to really get it cold. It's all about efficiency in the heat, even if it is more work, but you can do it. Even at 100, you can make it work. If you get it into shade, that plus wind can cool that meat down quite a bit. Use plenty of game bags, dont over fill them, and space it out so there is plenty of area for the bags to cool off. I’m assuming some of that temp is some sun/heat soak into the camera housing. But for instance it was 95° in the nearest down when this camera here was 105°, and its facing north instead of south west, and doesn’t get any direct sunlight so I trust this reading quite a bit more. Attached File |
Watching the kids shoot Pieeater's 1919 was great. Nothing warms the heart more than seeing a little kid kneeling in a pile of brass and links.-Pthfndr after the Nov 13th NorCal shoot
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Originally Posted By -Blue-: I’m in California. Hadn’t considered the meat going bad that fast that’s a good point. Originally Posted By -Blue-: Originally Posted By GlockPride: OP, where are you located? TN? No way I’d hunt in 103*. Heck no, that meat would be cooked by the time you got the hide off it. I’m in California. Hadn’t considered the meat going bad that fast that’s a good point. How would you get it down? How far are you from the road? All downhill? Do you have help? With no baiting (ours starts 9/1 , both season and baiting), I don’t know how you would get it except by pure luck or if you’re camped out there! |
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Originally Posted By C-4: @-Blue- Did you and up going after it? Any other pictures? I've been up once since. Another bear showed up on camera but I don't know if it's the same one. Found a gigantic turd on the dirt road but that's all I've seen of him since. I'm trying to get back up there the weekend of the 12th. Since there's no baiting I might have to eat a steady diet with nuts and corn and hunt over my own turds 
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Watching the kids shoot Pieeater's 1919 was great. Nothing warms the heart more than seeing a little kid kneeling in a pile of brass and links.-Pthfndr after the Nov 13th NorCal shoot
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