I don’t know the location of this “hotel room.” On the one hand, I absolutely love it. OTOH, with the increased bear presence near humans and their sheer power, I’m thinking that glass walls are just “displaying the entree” so to speak.
CHAT Bear bait?
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And while we’re talking bear bait…
Carl2
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One year when drought and wildfires disrupted the local bears' food supply, a bear tore the aluminum storm door off our home. The steel inner "real" door stopped him. A neighbor came home, entered his kitchen and was face-to-face with a bear, which promptly leapt out a window. Both structures above are not going to keep bears out!
Henry Bowman
Veteran Member
When I read the thread title without looking at the thread I thought it might be about GTR's or Nazi Piglosi.
patriotgal
Veteran Member
Black bears are suddenly showing up in yards all over the area here. One showed up at local veterinarian's place yesterday. Makes me wonder if they cannot find food.
West
Senior
If you also use and know how to use a good fawn in distress call, your chances double. If you also know how to use other calls like a crow and turkey calls if there also in bear country your chances double again.
Here if you got a few extra minutes to read, this was the first I found off the net, didn't read all of it but sounds interesting, I gotta go to work..
www.trappermag.com
Here if you got a few extra minutes to read, this was the first I found off the net, didn't read all of it but sounds interesting, I gotta go to work..
Going Bear Hunting? Lure Them in With Fawn Distress Calls
Predator hunting expert Jack Spencer Jr. offers tips on calling black bears with fawn distress bleats. Try it on your next hunt!
www.trappermag.com
Spring and waking up from hibernation is the bear's desperate starvation time. That is of course, until the fawns start hitting the ground. Then the dinner bell has been rung.
patriotgal
Veteran Member
Am aware of their need for breakfast after hibernation. In spite of that we rarely see them as visible as they are lately.
We used to cook bacon in the stand at a actual bear bait to draw them in. Nothing illegal about cooking yourself some bacon at 1 AM in Alaska on a bear bait stand. After all its daylight that time of year.Cooking smells have been known to cause black bears around here to climb through windows in the spring, but that's pretty rare.
Don't fry bacon in March & April and you should be good.
They were smarter than you think and it didnt work as well as you think it would.
Wayne Carlton(I believe thats his name) with Carlton Calls had a video out “Calling Bears” He called them in with predator calls snd blasted them with pepper spray.If you also use and know how to use a good fawn in distress call, your chances double. If you also know how to use other calls like a crow and turkey calls if there also in bear country your chances double again.
Here if you got a few extra minutes to read, this was the first I found off the net, didn't read all of it but sounds interesting, I gotta go to work..
Going Bear Hunting? Lure Them in With Fawn Distress Calls
Predator hunting expert Jack Spencer Jr. offers tips on calling black bears with fawn distress bleats. Try it on your next hunt!
He was addicted to the adrenaline rush for sure.
The bears around where we lived in Alaska ran the other way most of the time.
When they heard a call it was “oh Sh!t, they huntin” they would disappear.
I have done a lot of bear hunting in the interior and they are pretty smart. I have been impressed by how smart at times.
RB Martin
Veteran Member
Has a fireplace but no bathroom or kitchen!
West
Senior
I've called in more with the crow call than I've with the predator calls. Though have had luck with fawn in distress 2 times.
Some vary conservative crow calls and in the same tones they make when they find treasures.. plus near a pile of deer guts or alike.......
mistaken1
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Glorified tent. Looks like the guests will share toilet facilities with the bears.
bracketquant
Veteran Member
A peasant under glass?
West
Senior
It would be white meat under glass. Though vary GMO, vaxed and fatty, maybe the bears are health conscious.
Peachy
Contributing Member
Last week I walked out to my 6 foot high compost pile to add a five gallon bucket worth of scraps to the barrel beside it. Lo and behold--the pile was flattened and spread out in the entire corral where it sits. Only thing that could have made that mess was a bear!
I usually don't see them until June, but it's been a very beary early Spring.
I usually don't see them until June, but it's been a very beary early Spring.
Peachy
Contributing Member
I love that "room" also. For the most part--bears don't want the interaction or trouble of people. My dogs go on bear-alert and they are natural enemies.
Txkstew
Veteran Member
A guy I worked with, would go up to Minnesota to bear hunt with his in-laws. He came back to work onetime with a VCR tape of him sitting in his tree stand with the camera strapped to the tree above his head. It recorded a small clearing in the brush below him. He said that on the way to hunt that morning, they had stopped for a dozen donuts. There was a few left over, and he placed them in the middle of the clearing. In the video, you hear some crunching of the brush, and then a big black bear appears.
It walks up to sniff the donuts, and sits down on his rump. It picks up a donut with both paws, and starts munching on it. At that point, the bear stands up, and my coworker let's a arrow fly, hitting it square in the side of the chest. The bear leaps 5 foot in the air, clearing the brush in front of him.
The video picks up with them cautiously looking through the thick brush for the bear in the dark, where they found it dead. You could tell they were kind if spooked while doing it with flashlights.
It walks up to sniff the donuts, and sits down on his rump. It picks up a donut with both paws, and starts munching on it. At that point, the bear stands up, and my coworker let's a arrow fly, hitting it square in the side of the chest. The bear leaps 5 foot in the air, clearing the brush in front of him.
The video picks up with them cautiously looking through the thick brush for the bear in the dark, where they found it dead. You could tell they were kind if spooked while doing it with flashlights.
Far as I'm concerned, anybody who bow-hunts bear without a sidearm ready to go is asking for trouble. Pissed off, wounded bear climbs up your tree after ya - what are you going to do but get ripped to shreds.
Txkstew
Veteran Member
Yeah, in Texas you can't have bow equipment and a firearm on you at the same time while hunting.
Different kind o’ bear - lol
Everything I’ve read suggests that bear meat is stringy and greasy.
Minnesota it's legal to bow hunt bear while in possession of firearm. Makes more sense to me in terms of hunter safety (and encouraging people to get out there and actually do it). See last sentence. I thought so, but had to look it up to be sure. Minnesota DNR 2023 regs.
FWIW the "glass" on that hotel room is probably either Herculite or multi-layer laminated. Even a big bear will have difficulty getting through it.
It depends. Age of bear, sex, time of year, what they're eating, and yes, prep. It's rich, dark meat, and the fat can be overwhelming, so helps if the cook knows what they are doing.
West
Senior
And how it's processed from time of death to being butchered and packaged/how it's processed and cooked, smoked, etc....
I know you know, but for lurkers.
Txkstew
Veteran Member
A different guy brought two big roasting pans of bear meat in BBQ sauce to work. Two loaves of bread and all was good. He called it Bear-B-Q. It was like slow cooked Beef Brisket. He shot his bear in Wyoming.
Seeker22
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Only a nudist would be comfortable in such a place. Not that the Bear would give a care...
Snacks that peel themselves.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
IIIRC this is in either Sweden or Norway, not sure what the bear situation is there though.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
And the most commonly known "bear" is a big burly gay man with a beard and a preference for flannel shirts, jeans and work boots. They typically have an otter with them... See Andy Hill on YT for a better idea of what an otter is.
