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Well I finally got out and set 2 baits today. My first bait looks as if it should be good again this year. I had this bear track 20 yds from my barrel. Then I got this other barrel set at a new site. There was a track in a cow patty but it was kind of washed out.. And of course I have to have a pic of my boy out helping daddy.. Hopefully I will have some pics next week when I go set up more and get bear camp set up. Looking forward to having paw over to maybe get a bear or at least help carry bait

Do you guys have to label/mark your bait sites?

3legged_lab wrote:Do you guys have to label/mark your bait sites?

Name and address on barrel. We can register 2 sites per person. Each site is 1 square mile and you are the only one who can bait that square mile.

3legged_lab wrote:Do you guys have to label/mark your bait sites?

Name and address on barrel. We can register 2 sites per person. Each site is 1 square mile and you are the only one who can bait that square mile.

Cool. I wish we could run bait.

Hoping you'll have some trail cam pics by the time I get there, to encourage me to pay that $300 bear tag fee.

You guys see a lot of color phase bears out there?

bill herian wrote:You guys see a lot of color phase bears out there?

Seems like he has more color phase than blacks in the trail cam pics the last few years. The one he shot last year was a chocolate.

Very cool.

I remember the outfitter we hunted with in Idaho when I was little says his big money maker is color phase bears. They shot close to 50% chocolates and blondes. Apparently bear afficionados will travel and pay big for good odds on them.

Hope you guys get on a couple! Gonna be slingin arrows at em?

bill herian wrote:Very cool.

I remember the outfitter we hunted with in Idaho when I was little says his big money maker is color phase bears. They shot close to 50% chocolates and blondes. Apparently bear afficionados will travel and pay big for good odds on them.

Hope you guys get on a couple! Gonna be slingin arrows at em?

I'm still having issues from the wreck I was in. I haven't been shooting my bow because of that. I wish I could because one of his bait stands has a perfect setup for bow. I don't know if quackhead is going to bowhunt his or not.
As a side note, the next square over from one of his stands had a bear shot on it that holds the current state record. So the genetics for big bears are definitely there in the area for bruisers.
Maybe quackhead can post some of his trail cam pics from the past few years.

We just get ones with pretty collars on them. Pink, yellow, orange, looks like a friggin flower around their neck.

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WTF Goldie? What is that? It looks like a taxi'd bear head.

Its a black bear paw. You'd better brush up on your id'ing skills before you head out to hunt with quack.

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WTF Goldie? What is that? It looks like a taxi'd bear head.

It's got the same look as my friend's dog does when she does something bad

Looks like reflective tape so people seeing them crossing the road at night?

Why do they do that, Goldie? Gotta be a better way to mark study bears.

I bet it makes them easier to shoot as well.

3legged_lab wrote:I bet it makes them easier to shoot as well.

They make exploding arrows now that home in on the neck signal/transmitter and kablam, kapoui, bear be gone...

They can smell the menstruation.

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The arrows or the bears?

This guy Lynn Rogers runs this Ely Bear Center up in northern MN. His "research" is questionable, and he has had his license pulled before by the DNR. He collars wild bears, and blogs about them online out something. He also does these den cams that stream online so he can get lots of money from veggie lovers. Anyways, a few years back, one of "his" bears (they are all supposed to be wild bears, even though he can walk right up to them and interact with them) was legally shot during bear season. He and his animal lover friends got all in a tizzy about it, so they started putting these bright duct tape collars on "their" bears do they can continue to study them in the wild. Never mind that people hunting them is part of life for all the other bears around them, so their research is flawed by basically everything that they do.

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This is what dad found while we were checking baits yesterday

Good Lord! You guys sell them overseas? Last I heard, they were worth a pretty penny per pound, although I don't know if that applies to dried sheds.

Nice find Q! I love finding sheds.

assateague wrote:Good Lord! You guys sell them overseas? Last I heard, they were worth a pretty penny per pound, although I don't know if that applies to dried sheds.

cut them into about 6 in lengths and sell them as dog chews. They go for about $10 a piece.

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If you're gonna cut it up save a peice for a call of some kind.

They go for about 10-12 a lb hear

That's what I had heard. But I think you have to sell them to overseas dealers, don't you? My mind may just be making up that last part.

Overseas likes the velvet horns for tea. If I got enough of them I would sell here since there are lots of buyers that come to buy the Boy Scouts antlers. She'd hunting is very serious around here. We can't hunt them until may 1st. Buy the refuge there is a line of people nearly a mile on the opener

Hopefully we will get this one next week.