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Hunting Bears...

PostPosted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 10:51 am
by Kanadier
This thread was split from:
viewtopic.php?f=152&t=4564&start=1125. Instead of continuing to pollute the picture thread I thought I would continue in a new thread.

monkeymaximus wrote:kanadier... is that really you?


Yep. My cousin has a killer camera. Also shows everyone's imperfect face though, so we barely ever use it. haha That was in August this summer I believe. We didn't actually hunt in ghillie suits, we were just target shooting before we went out, and I thought it'd be fun. haha

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 3:53 pm
by monkeymaximus
thats crazy. I've gone to the shooting range... but bear hunting ... thats a whole different level. Now i kinda want to go... altho I don't think i could shoot a bear (unless it was gonna eat me).

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 8:25 pm
by Kanadier
We eat everything we kill; it's a lot harder than deer hunting, for sure. haha (hauling the buggers out of the Forrest is the hardest part)

Re: Hunting Bears...

PostPosted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:16 pm
by monkeymaximus
how does bear taste?

Re: Hunting Bears...

PostPosted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:24 pm
by Kanadier
Hahaha, you split it? It's great! My favourite by far. Rabbit is next.

Re: Hunting Bears...

PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:25 am
by ace
Yea me and my buddy are trying to plan a bear trip next season in the appalachian's, this last season snuck up on us real quick and didn't get much done, didn't even get a deer this season :( I've only been deer hunting before, would also like to take my new ar coyote hunting sometime as well. But at least this winter is tolerable so we've been goin to the range a lot lately.

What caliber do you use for bear hunting?

Re: Hunting Bears...

PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:43 pm
by Kanadier
300 Win mag. It was my cousin's Tikka T3 that we were using. He wanted to show it off, and I wanted to try it. So we both came out happy ;)

Re: Hunting Bears...

PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:00 pm
by monkeymaximus
i guess now i know how non-tech people feel when i talk tech ;)

ill start doing some research.

Re: Hunting Bears...

PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 12:17 pm
by Kanadier
Haha. It's a fairly large long-range round. Perfect in my opinion for bears. :D

Re: Hunting Bears...

PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 9:01 pm
by ace
lol, I've never had any reason to shoot anything bigger than 30-06...yet. I'll just rock a bear with my bow ;) How'd you like the T3?

Re: Hunting Bears...

PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:41 pm
by The Cookie Monster
How do you make sure that the other bears don't come and attack when you're taking the one you took down out of the forest?

Re: Hunting Bears...

PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:28 am
by Kanadier
Da Cool Man wrote:How do you make sure that the other bears don't come and attack when you're taking the one you took down out of the forest?


Never had it happen before. haha, If it did, I'm sure we'd just bag two bears instead of one. Survival of the fittest.

@ace Yeah, my buddy hunts with a compound bow. It's ridiculous, he goes out with three arrows and no other weapon. I wouldn't do it, what if you missed? haha. My uncle hunts with a black powder musket. Never really understood either of them ;)

Re: Hunting Bears...

PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:17 am
by monkeymaximus
does he climb a tree before he tries to get them with his bow? It worked for Robin Hood...

Re: Hunting Bears...

PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:21 pm
by Kanadier
We don't hunt like that up here. ;) It's not fair to use stands.

Hunting Bears...

PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:25 pm
by monkeymaximus
Ah because then the bear can't eat you... Got it ;)