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We are getting more bears showing up where I hunt in North Western California. I have two on our trail camera. My wife and I both have bear tags this year.
Who in here likes to hunt?
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Tray Burge
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I used to hunt beaver, but know I'm happily married and no longer have to.
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Yes, we use to have a lot of hogs here. Not so much right now. Seems like it happens about every 10 years, the pig population drops then comes back up. Waiting for it to come back up. The ones that are here are big.
Used to deer and small game hunt in NC but my primary hunting grounds got sold and it became too much trouble finding a place to hunt. I still shoot often and compete in CAS, Wild Bunch, BAMM or ipsc style matches monthly. Here I’m shooting my ‘97 trench gun in a WB match wearing my 1912 uniform.
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The Deer hunting season ends in October up there. Bear season goes until the last part if Dec., but usually don't get too many bear hunters only up there.
Did some scouting with a buddy for elk. Archery opens up at the end of the month.
I've never shot a bow (except in PE class back in the late 90s). My buddy is trying to convince me to get one so I can go with him. I've got my eye on a Hoyt, its pretty cheap for a beginner and I would probably spend the first year learning how to use it. Plus I am left handed so my options are slim
I've never shot a bow (except in PE class back in the late 90s). My buddy is trying to convince me to get one so I can go with him. I've got my eye on a Hoyt, its pretty cheap for a beginner and I would probably spend the first year learning how to use it. Plus I am left handed so my options are slim
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Tried bow hunting but in eastern nc the bugs and heat were too much for me. Enjoyed black powder hunting a bunch though. Killed a pair of whitetails out of the same tree stand on the same hunt, one behind the other, twice. Good luck on your bow hunting endeavor tworley.
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Hope you get one. The two I've shot previously were great eating and due to the extra fat stays more moist than venison in the crock pot.
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We have seen lots of bears up there. Seems more bears and less deer from what I hear
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When I get back on my computer, I'll send a couple of videos clips on my trail camera of bears next my ground blind.
I’ve been known to wake up before dark, and climb a tree stand just to take naps...
Great weekend scouting for my upcoming AZ bull elk hunt!
Chapman4266
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View of ranch(deer camp) and filling a feeder. It's not high fence and the shot from my blind to this feeder is 200+ yds. These views are 400ft above most of the land. West Texas whitetail and Axis. We have some hogs(not many), coyotes, mountain lions, couple of black panthers(draw on the distance is Panther Draw) Bobcats, and Black bears. The bears are endangered here and cannot be hunted.
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It's nice that you can have feeders. We can't have feeders on the ranch here, it's against the law in California. We are getting more bears on the ranch and we can hunt them. Mountain lions we can't hunt, because the are protected by law (crazy) there are too many of them here. Got my Blacktail Buck about 3 weeks ago, now my wife is looking for her's. We keep getting trees falling across the roads and seems like we spend more time cutting trees then hunting.