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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2019 16:13:03 GMT -5
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Post by davet on May 20, 2019 21:49:08 GMT -5
Bear spray.......just hope you're not spraying into the wind!!!
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2019 5:59:37 GMT -5
I may be the only poster here who has actually been in a really scarey situation with a bear and lived to tell about it. While on a bear hunt in Alberta some years ago (2004), and also while recovering from major shoulder reconstruction surgery (and not having a gun with me), I had a large female bear with cubs put on a real threat display. It all started when Len, the outfitter and chief guide, asked me if I would sit on a stand he had not used yet and take photos of what came in to the bait barrel. I agreed to do so, not being all that afraid of what might happen. It did. As the evening progressed, a sow bear with three cubs came to the bait. After having fed on the oats for awhile, one of the cubs got to wondering what that thing up in the treestand was, so he came over and climbed the tree. I didn't think having a bear, even a cub in the stand with me was all that great an idea, so when he got his feet up on the stand platform I kicked him in the chops and he fell about 15 feet to the ground and let out a bellow. Momma was RIGHT THERE in an instant. The Luckiest Hunter Alive, with no weapon other than a pen knife, had a Mexican stand-off with a beautiful cinnamon colored momma bear, whose beautiful color I was not appreciating at that time. To make a longer story fit into one of these posts, I did survive it, but it sure left me with a lasting memory. This is what one really pissed off cinnamomma lookded like.  |
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Post by davet on May 21, 2019 6:33:33 GMT -5
WOW Mutt.......the end story "Was kilt by a female with a beautiful fur coat" was never written. Albeit, it could still happen at one of yer local bars.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2019 6:38:40 GMT -5
Actually, a couple of guys who hunt with Lee and Tiffany were in camp at the time, and one of them got that bear the next evening. I think the guy's name is Randy Brander. Beautiful bear.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2019 6:39:54 GMT -5
WOW Mutt.......the end story "Was kilt by a female with a beautiful fur coat" was never written. Albeit, it could still happen at one of yer local bars. Maybe the Yough Roadhouse? |
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Post by dougell on May 21, 2019 7:57:18 GMT -5
I've been bluff charged three times.It is a little un-nerving but bears in Pa are pretty much blow hards.The closest call was about 10 years ago on the first afternoon of archey.I had just pulled my bow up and was nocking an arrow when I heard something coming.Assuming it was a deer,I got ready as a relatively small female came walking in right to the base of my tree.I was focused on her and didn't see her 4 cubs until she winded me,looked up and woofed.All four cubs scurried up trees with one climbing the tree closest to me.When he got eye level with my,not 5 feet away he started to bawl.When that happened,the sow turned inside out woofing,popping her teeth and beating the ground like a silver back gorilla.She would circle the tree,and woof at me while beating the ground with her paws every time she came around to my side.I stood motionless ready to draw but she never put a paw on my tree.This lasted several minutes and she woofed again,bringing the cubs down.She proceeded to let them feed on acorns as she laid down in front of my tree,never taking her eyes off me.At the time,it wasn't that scary but the walk back to the truck that night was a little edgy.two years ago,I had just got down putting up a ladder stand for my son in Sept.I made a pile of noise,mostly swearing and was sweating like a whore in church.I was about 30 yards from the stand,hanging a trail camera when I heard something coming fast.Again,a smaller,lone bear came in fast,stopped about 20 yards away and proceeded to woof and pop his teeth at me.I figured it was a a younger boar but had no idea what his motivation was so I drew my 10mm and chambered a round.There's no way he didn't hear me and there's no way he didn't smell me because I smelled like a locker room and the wind was blowing right to him.He must have just been curious and unsure because he just stared me down,making a low gutteral grunts and then flanked me as he walked away.He never ran.I almost put a round at his feet.
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Post by fleroo on May 21, 2019 8:16:01 GMT -5
I don't care about this "Lee" thingy. But who's Tiffany ?  |
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Post by davet on May 21, 2019 8:49:38 GMT -5
I don't care about this "Lee" thingy. But who's Tiffany ? She's the blonde that has a hard time acting like a real person. |
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Post by fleroo on May 21, 2019 11:31:28 GMT -5
I don't care about this "Lee" thingy. But who's Tiffany ? She's the blonde that has a hard time acting like a real person. Blonde ? A blonde went to the Dentist. Dentist: "I think you need a crown." Blonde: "I know, right ?" I'll bet a dollar to a donut, muttley get's it. |
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Post by timberdoodle on May 21, 2019 11:56:46 GMT -5
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Post by dougell on May 21, 2019 12:08:05 GMT -5
Actually, a couple of guys who hunt with Lee and Tiffany were in camp at the time, and one of them got that bear the next evening. I think the guy's name is Randy Brander. Beautiful bear. I bet they didn't air it on TV and admitted that they shot a sow with cubs. |
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2019 13:47:23 GMT -5
I may be wrong about this, but I think they dunned Lenny (the outfitter) out of a free hunt with the promise of it being on TV. As far as I know, it never was.
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Post by dougell on May 21, 2019 15:34:26 GMT -5
If it was,they didn't admit to killing a sow with cubs.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2019 16:17:14 GMT -5
Doug, during May the cubs with this sow would have been about two to three weeks away from being turned out and on their own. It was no big deal at all for Randy to kill this sow, and had no effect on the cubs whatsoever. Here is a photo of two of the cubs that were with that sow. You can get an idea how big they were by comparing them to the 55 gallon drums. I'm guessing that they weighed close to 100 pounds. Our PGC says that if a cub weighs over 35 pounds it will probably make it. I would probably have shot her, but because I was not carrying a gun or bow, I couldn't have.  |
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Post by dougell on May 21, 2019 16:21:23 GMT -5
Ah,when you said cubs,I thought you meant newborn cubs.
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