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Posted: 11/18/2022 12:54:50 AM EDT
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just looking to see if anyone has used calls to bag a black bear in the fall? just looking for ponters |
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I’ve killed some pretty decent black bears but never had any success in calling them in. Either spot and stalk or when I was sitting on a game trail. My last two: Attached File Attached File |
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I've only called for coyote, and had one success. Bear would probably respond to prey calls like distressed fawn, if they respond to anything. I'm not sure they really hunt by sound. Scent might work. Hunting from a tree stand so your scent goes upward, and placing a scent bomb or something on the ground seems like a good strategy. |
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Originally Posted By NoImpactNoIdea: I’ve killed some pretty decent black bears but never had any success in calling them in. Either spot and stalk or when I was sitting on a game trail. My last two: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/74034/29E21B4C-8B77-44CC-9A2B-244BEF43C3A4_jpe-2604418.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/74034/3C289ABA-84B6-4664-9CF5-79282B8C0EB2_jpe-2604419.JPG well the country around here is so thick i dont know how good spot and stalk would work. and the laws are so tight can not use bait or lures i think most of the guys that have gotting one got lucky going into to a deer stand or coming back out. right know calling about the only way we are allowed to attacted one. but there has been talk of let up on the laws on runing them with dogs and if that happens it will most like become the most common in the area. |
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Originally Posted By TNC: I've only called for coyote, and had one success. Bear would probably respond to prey calls like distressed fawn, if they respond to anything. I'm not sure they really hunt by sound. Scent might work. Hunting from a tree stand so your scent goes upward, and placing a scent bomb or something on the ground seems like a good strategy. well the reason i ask is i seen it done on tv but it was always out west or up north. i would try the scent bomb but our laws are so tight scent and bait both are outright ban. and it makes people crazy there are a tone of people that have pics of big bears coming in and eating the corn or apples that were put out for deer. but the laws say a area has to be 100# clear of bait ot scent for 60 or maybe 90 days before a bear can be shot. there has been talk of maybe soon they well let up on the laws on running them with dogs and if that happens it well most likely become the most common. |
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Originally Posted By TNC: I've only called for coyote, and had one success. Bear would probably respond to prey calls like distressed fawn, if they respond to anything. I'm not sure they really hunt by sound. Scent might work. Hunting from a tree stand so your scent goes upward, and placing a scent bomb or something on the ground seems like a good strategy. well the reason i ask is i seen it done on tv but it was always out west or up north. i would try the scent bomb but our laws are so tight scent and bait both are outright ban. and it makes people crazy there are a tone of people that have pics of big bears coming in and eating the corn or apples that were put out for deer. but the laws say a area has to be 100# clear of bait ot scent for 60 or maybe 90 days before a bear can be shot. there has been talk of maybe soon they well let up on the laws on running them with dogs and if that happens it well most likely become the most common. |
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On separate occasions both my brother and I have had black bear come in on a dead run after we made a calf elk mew during elk hunts. Of course both charges came to a skidding stop and hasty retreat when the bear saw camo-predator-thing instead of an elk calf. |
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