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Originally posted by p dog shooter:

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One good hit with an adequate rifle is all it takes. They're not as big or tough as people seem to think. Especially baiting, the range is going to be short.

Tell that to someone who thinks he had made the one good hit to only have the bear run off.

Many strange things can happen once you pull the trigger.

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Originally posted by chuck375:

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:

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One good hit with an adequate rifle is all it takes. They're not as big or tough as people seem to think. Especially baiting, the range is going to be short.

Tell that to someone who thinks he had made the one good hit to only have the bear run off.

Many strange things can happen once you pull the trigger.

A 30-30 with 170g CoreLokt's is plenty for black bear. I used to hunt them (successfully) with my 243 when I was a kid.

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Originally posted by chuck375:

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:

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One good hit with an adequate rifle is all it takes. They're not as big or tough as people seem to think. Especially baiting, the range is going to be short.

Tell that to someone who thinks he had made the one good hit to only have the bear run off.

Many strange things can happen once you pull the trigger.

A 30-30 with 170g CoreLokt's is plenty for black bear. I used to hunt them (successfully) with my 243 when I was a kid.

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Originally posted by 69deer:
Many years ago I had the honor of hunting with one of the best bears guides around. Here are a few tips that he taught us.A bear knows someone is feeding him, only the person hunting him bait. 2 human scents and he is off to another bait. Don't feed him in the am, if you come back in the afternoon without bait, your screwed.scrape the area clean so you can see his front pads.Use farm molasses and corn in a corn bag and hang from a tree with the top part of the bag folded over to keep ravens out of the bait.Spread some molasses on the ground for the bears to make scent trails for other bears.Use a shooting stick because bear fever is no different than buck fever.If your bear keeps feeding at night,cut his food in half . The bear will get hungry and come in the following day earlier.Shoot for the shoulder, bears don't leave much of a blood trail because of the long hair, knock them down.Don't use poultry, it sours quickly and the bears will get sick and lay up for a couple of days. Good Luck! Watching bears is almost as fun as shooting them. Enjoy them, they are comical! Jeff

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Originally posted by Dogleg:
We have simplified our baiting. Due to my trapline we can moniter what they hit throughout the season. For the beginning you absolutely can't beat beaver. As the season progresses they seem to lose their taste for it but with any luck at all you're long done by then. Something that has been very good from an efficiency point of view is 50 pound blocks of licorice. Bears may or may not love it, but they cant seem to leave it alone. The real plus is its difficult for them to clean the barrel right out. A block or two would likely last the season if you shot your bear and went home like a normal hunter would do. We've also used skittles, candy hearts and any number of things. We were forced to name the biggest bear taken "Skittles", though that does seem a stange name for an over 8 foot black. Oiled oats are also a standby, and a couple bucks a bushell makes it hard beat from a cost effectiveness point of view.

I think people make baiting harder than it has to be; mostly by running around burning fuel while begging for free garbage; but also by using baits that require constant replenishing. If your plan is to give them cheap sweet stuff; you might just find that the cheapest sweet stuff is 50 pound bags of sugar. That will bump up any crap a notch.

If at all possible keep your baits close to water.

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Originally posted by shootaway:
Thanks Cougarz.

I was thinking of building a ground blind with branches and logs.I wonder if that would work?
That is if I get them on bait.I have no experience with any kind of tree stand or sitting up in a tree.

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Originally posted by Grizzly Adams:

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Originally posted by shootaway:
Thanks Cougarz.

I was thinking of building a ground blind with branches and logs.I wonder if that would work?
That is if I get them on bait.I have no experience with any kind of tree stand or sitting up in a tree.

By the time you get all this advice done, the season will be over.

Grizz

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Originally posted by shootaway:
Thanks Cougarz.

I was thinking of building a ground blind with branches and logs.I wonder if that would work?
That is if I get them on bait.I have no experience with any kind of tree stand or sitting up in a tree.

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Originally posted by shootaway:

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Originally posted by Grizzly Adams:

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Originally posted by shootaway:
Thanks Cougarz.

I was thinking of building a ground blind with branches and logs.I wonder if that would work?
That is if I get them on bait.I have no experience with any kind of tree stand or sitting up in a tree.

By the time you get all this advice done, the season will be over.

Grizz

It was a late decision.I plan on driving up there for a single day to bait the week of the 8-15 and hunting from the 24-31 of June.I got some already asking for a steak.I hope I can deliver.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:
If you can't bait every day or every other day.

I would fill it mostly full.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:
Depends a lot on the hole size in the barrel.

The type of bait how many bears using the site.

If they really have to work at it I would hope it keep the interested for a week.

We can't use barrels here so a hollow stump is use. the bears well clean up as much as you put out for them in that situation.

I use 5 gallons at a time every day 3 weeks before season.

Before that a couple gallons every other day.

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Originally posted by shootaway:
It cost a fortune to fill two drums.

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Originally posted by shootaway:
It cost a fortune to fill two drums.

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Originally posted by Grizzly Adams:

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Originally posted by shootaway:
It cost a fortune to fill two drums.

Always used meat scraps and rejects from a super market, free for the taking. It's the work involved to do it right that's the killer.
Grizz

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Originally posted by Cougarz:
Interestingly if you leave a can of gas out in the bush the Bears will drink it.

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Originally posted by shootaway:
As it turned out I used only one location right next to a lake.The road leading to the other site I planned to use was flooded. I did not have too much time as I had to be at work next morning.There is also a creek only about 5yds from the bait.
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I got the truck stuck in a ditch.Cost a fortune for a truck to arrive with a digger.After walking a few miles,I was lucky to come across someone fishing along the road.

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No worries Shootaway, just put in a bait hole and some donuts and heck, that is all there is to it.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:

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No worries Shootaway, just put in a bait hole and some donuts and heck, that is all there is to it.

That's how we do it in Wis. by regulation.

We kill over 5000 bears a year with that method.

Sometimes it is that simple. The biggest bear I shot over 500lbs was on a donut bait less then a week old.

Beside not securing his barrels with something better the bungees.

I don't see anything wrong.

Most likely had plans on two sites but due to access problems put them all at one.

As far as getting struck been there done that.

It happens.

Shootaway don't be put off by the nay Sayers.

Go back and you could shoot a nice one.