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Post by tuketu on Mar 29, 2022 14:44:12 GMT -4
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Post by sideswipe on Mar 31, 2022 12:09:22 GMT -4
Good link Tuck. Liked the pros & cons. I know setting up over a food site or calling large predators like bear the ideal is to have a partner, treestand or at least some kind of natural barrier to cover your backdoor.
Recall a former hunter, also nicknamed Tuck (Tucker) who liked to hunt predators at night by calling. He shared w/me that once, after an uneventful calling session he was about to leave when he turned to glance behind him. In the moonlight he saw the shining eyes of a cougar sitting there 15 ft away. Yeah, you might think you’re look’in for a yote to come in but remember there’s other bigger, hungry predators out there! My experiences w/mountain lions fortunately have resulting in them just evaporating & you don’t know where they are. Yes the hair does come up on the back of your neck. One other thing about cougars, when they are responding to that squealing rabbit or fawn bleat call, unlike other predators, when the see or smell man...they just don’t care & just keep coming into their “meal”. FWIW. Oh BTW, Tuck shared that w/me over a glass of brown ale & link of mtn lion sausage....delicious! Kinda like veal.
One other memory; I setup my little popup blind to overlook two converging Whitetail trails. The owner of the pvt property, must have been a bowhunter as I first discovered this spot by finding an old, rotten homemade wooden treestand there. Looked like a good spot as the trails were obviously still in use. 1st morning I smugly congratulated myself as a watched does, yearlings, & very young bucks pass my “field of fire” oblivious to my presence. Then came the midmorning “lull”. I was about to leave the stand & return to the cabin for lunch & my nap before the PM hunt. I leaned fwd to get a better peripheral picture. As I did this I locked eyes w/a decent shooter buck (at less than 10’) who came up behind my blind for a looksee. As our eyes met, he exploded& took off never to be seen again. I was very disappointed but now years later look back, its a great memory.
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Post by nontypical on Mar 31, 2022 21:09:35 GMT -4
Hunting bears from a ground blind, ANY ground blind, is not for the faint of heart. Always exciting to see how close they will come, but makes the heart race while you wonder what they might do. I’ve found juveniles on their first year away from mama are the “scariest” as they are still in a voyage of discovery and haven’t yet figured out that some things, such as hu my and, are best avoided.
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Post by sideswipe on Apr 1, 2022 21:14:40 GMT -4
Love it! Always love the forum input, esp when you can tell they have "been there-done that". Keep it com'in guys (& gals).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2022 5:23:46 GMT -4
I took my first bear in 1991 at Ranger Lake in Ontario. Sitting on the ground, he walked by at 15 yards. First night sitting that bait, it was a very slow year and it was the only site getting hit.
The owner and I walked in that morning and it had been hit, freshened it and pulled out. Went back early afternoon and it was destroyed. Problem was, no stand or tree big enough for a stand. Only big tree had fallen over, so I tucked in by the root wad. Hour or so later, he strolled in. The big Snuffer head on a 2317 arrow hit him hard and didn’t slow down much. It blew a 1 1/2” of rib out on my side and cut 2 in half on the off side.
At that point, I was hooked and had respect for the burin.
Tried calling up at International Falls a few years later. Never got a bear to come in. Might have been that I had another guy, mine and his wife with us. Was the most quiet setup I ever done.
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Post by tuketu on Apr 2, 2022 10:45:42 GMT -4
I'm not afraid of black Bears but let's just say I have a healthy respect for them. Not sure I have the nerve to bow hunt one from the ground. Got a text from Roger one evening , he was at the "Way Back" site. He said to beep the horn as I drove in to pick him up. He had like a half dozen bears around the barrels and they were all surly and fighting. I knew it was bad when Roger was nervous about coming down from the tree in the midst of a Donny Brook !.
Roger and one of his Way Back Bears.
tuk
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Post by sideswipe on Apr 2, 2022 11:40:55 GMT -4
Great pics & stories guys. Like the traditional gear (like bow hunt'in isn't enough challenge). Wish I stayed w/it. Least I use cast lead & 19th-cent firesticks.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2022 17:12:27 GMT -4
I have very healthy respect for them now days. That was 31 years ago, when I thought I was 10’ tall and bulletproof!
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Post by tuketu on Apr 8, 2022 15:06:25 GMT -4
With age comes Wisdom my Brother !
Momma never raised no fool either... Lol!
tuk
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