Posted 7/16/2012 11:20 AM (#571849) Subject: Bears!
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I was putting around the Eagle River chain for the first time on Saturday with some old friends. Left the musky gear at home with the heat and their general lack of experience.
Know it is not unheard of, but we saw a momma bear and her two cubs swimming across Voyageur after a somewhat heavy downpour with some booms.
We were just sitting there when my friend goes, "holy #*#*, is that a dragon?!" I looked and saw this big hump with two little humps behind it. Looked like Nessie. We motored closer (obviously not too close to respect their distance) and saw it was the three bears. One of the little guys was riding on top of the mom for a time.
Posted 7/17/2012 7:20 AM (#572085 - in reply to #571849) Subject: Re: Bears!
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin
We have at least a dozen different bears coming in to a bait station we have set a could hundred yards from the house for a friend to hunt this late summer. Two will easily break 550 pounds. Look like Buicks on the trail camera.
Posted 7/17/2012 12:50 PM (#572209 - in reply to #572085) Subject: Re: Bears!
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Location: oconomowoc, wi
sworrall - 7/17/2012 7:20 AM
We have at least a dozen different bears coming in to a bait station we have set a could hundred yards from the house for a friend to hunt this late summer. Two will easily break 550 pounds. Look like Buicks on the trail camera.
Posted 7/17/2012 1:11 PM (#572216 - in reply to #571849) Subject: Re: Bears!
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Location: minocqua, wi.
i believe it's dog-training week so that along with the stifling heats brings em out to run around in the wide open either running from dogs or trying to get some relief.
Posted 7/18/2012 12:08 AM (#572378 - in reply to #571849) Subject: Re: Bears!
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin
Saw a moose and a calf a couple miles from the house tonight. Can't beat this area for near everything in the outdoors...
That bear was back in 5 minutes. This time I sent him packing scattering dirt clods on both sides with six well placed S&W 40s. No animals were harmed, and I scared him into running a tight circle at first.
Posted 7/18/2012 8:46 AM (#572406 - in reply to #571849) Subject: Re: Bears!
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin
The bird feeder stays. Not my call.
And I have no issue with 'gunfire', I kinda like it. The moose was on 8/47 down from the wayside. Big animal. A bull was killed by a car in that area a year or so ago, and the DNR thought there was only one bull in the area. Since the cow had a calf, there's obviously more than anyone thought.
Posted 7/18/2012 9:25 AM (#572416 - in reply to #572406) Subject: Re: Bears!
Location: Sawyer County, WI
sworrall - 7/18/2012 8:46 AM
The bird feeder stays. Not my call.
Fully understand that one !
sworrall - 7/18/2012 8:46 AM
And I have no issue with 'gunfire', I kinda like it.
Sorry Steve, I wasn't clear - gunfire hasn't been very effective for me in the past - the bear always came back. An air horn was effective for a while, but they grew accustomed to that too. Eventually the bird feeder came down (to the wife's dismay) and the bear didn't come back. Maybe I'll put it back up once the berry crops come in.
sworrall - 7/18/2012 8:46 AM
The moose was on 8/47 down from the wayside. Big animal. A bull was killed by a car in that area a year or so ago, and the DNR thought there was only one bull in the area. Since the cow had a calf, there's obviously more than anyone thought.
Very cool. I'd love to have a few wander further west....
Posted 7/18/2012 9:34 AM (#572418 - in reply to #571849) Subject: Re: Bears!
Posts: 32930
Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin
Usually, the bears leave our feeders alone after the woods green up, but we have so many in this area now competition is pretty stiff for food. They have killed a couple fawns over the last couple years close enough so we hear the entire affair from the back yard. Heck of a ruckus, too.
My neighbor down the road east of here a mile has one that will go 600 trying to pull his charcoal grill of his deck a couple times a week. It completely ignores shotgun blasts now and continues to reach over the railing and yank on the grill handles.
Next time this boar comes back in our yard I am going to give it a bb in the nose. That pistol shoots bb loads slow enough so I can see the bb flying through the air, will sting but not do any real damage.
Posted 7/18/2012 9:58 AM (#572424 - in reply to #572378) Subject: Re: Bears!
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Location: Smith Creek
sworrall - 7/18/2012 12:08 AM
Saw a moose and a calf a couple miles from the house tonight. Can't beat this area for near everything in the outdoors...
That bear was back in 5 minutes. This time I sent him packing scattering dirt clods on both sides with six well placed S&W 40s. No animals were harmed, and I scared him into running a tight circle at first.
Posted 7/18/2012 10:22 AM (#572432 - in reply to #571849) Subject: Re: Bears!
Posts: 32930
Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin
deal, Shep.
J Trizzle
Posted 7/18/2012 3:27 PM (#572507 - in reply to #571849) Subject: RE: Bears!
Now Steve... I like you and the website... but gotta give you a little ribbing. A pistol bb gun that moves so slow you can see it move in the air. You're gonna hit a bear in the nose with that?? Planning on holding the muzzle 5 feet from the boars nose??
Posted 7/18/2012 4:32 PM (#572523 - in reply to #571849) Subject: Re: Bears!
Posts: 32930
Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin
'Hold out a 9 foot muskie rod. You're gonna shoot a bear in the nose from that distance sharp shooter??'
Umm, yes. I don't understand, you think that's tough or something? Easy shot from 25', but it will be no more than 10'. Hardly requires a sharpshooter, or the .40 S&W...I said the BB pistol was slow and therefore not going to do more than sting the bugger, not inaccurate. It dispatched quite a few pine squirrels before being replaced by a Ruger .177. That thing is nasty.
Homer, try getting treed by one and have it trying to get at you. Stupid boar did that to me while I was deer hunting a few years ago. My son came out at 9 PM with the 6 wheeler and chased him off, probably a 450 pounder, and flat mean spirited. it tried for a couple hours to get up a red pine and get at me, but the limbs were too close together at the base of my stand, and a poke with the broadhead in the nose backed him off, but didn't chase him away. I carried a a canister bear spray for a couple seasons, and never had it happen again. Not all that tame...actually, dangerous critters at times. Last year a 400 to 450 pound boar got pretty insistent he wanted past me into the garage one night; I went out because I heard a big crash, didn't realize it was a freaking bear tearing up Sue's 50 gallon bird seed canisters but took the pistol anyway. The .40 S&W kicking gravel all over his backside convinced him that was a bad idea. Scared the crap out of my daughter in law.
Beav sold me that handgun back a few years ago. I like it. Sold my .357 and .44 directly after getting that weapon. Nice round.
I would not ever 'wrangle' a bear. Those things stink.
Had a sow and a cub in the back yard today.
J Trizzle
Posted 7/18/2012 4:40 PM (#572524 - in reply to #571849) Subject: RE: Bears!
Never said it was a tough shot. Please take video of you shooting a bear in the nose with a bb gun pistol from 10' away.
Posted 7/18/2012 4:48 PM (#572527 - in reply to #571849) Subject: Re: Bears!
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problem bears in ontario. i worked witha guy from quebec.his way was fill a 45 gallon drum with old greasy stuff and sit back with a case of ale. when the bear stiks his head in ,,,push the plunger. they used a stik of cil dynamo... problem solved.
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