Bears Bears Bears !!!! Spring recap from BC

[Red Bullets]

A nice collection of bears to make the season memorable. Might even be a little safer of an area to go pick berries in late summer. A few less berry pigs to deal with.

[Torkdiesel]

Originally Posted by Red Bullets

A nice collection of bears to make the season memorable. Might even be a little safer of an area to go pick berries in late summer. A few less berry pigs to deal with.

Glad we could help out

[Big Grey Wolf]

Tork nice bunch of bears. You and your hunters have saved a bunch of moose and elk calves from a short life. One large boar bear that was collared ate some where over 40 calves in one spring smorg during recent study.

[Torkdiesel]

Originally Posted by Big Grey Wolf

Tork nice bunch of bears. You and your hunters have saved a bunch of moose and elk calves from a short life. One large boar bear that was collared ate some where over 40 calves in one spring smorg during recent study.

Thanks BGW

Those bears are calf killing machines for sure. I've read a few studies now, and one where they put cameras on specific bears to monitor what exactly they were eating. One they kill a moose calf a day, it's a problem!!!

Now if I can just figure out how to kill 25-30 bears a year up north I'll be really helping out my moose 😉

[Big Grey Wolf]

Tork, lots of lead! just kidding. You might monitor your "dry cow" calf/cow moose numbers in the fall. Then some how increase your number of spring bear hunts. Your good success this year of large boars should get the attention of many guys wanting a nice rug. May take a few years to see significant results.

[Torkdiesel]

Originally Posted by Big Grey Wolf

Tork, lots of lead! just kidding. You might monitor your "dry cow" calf/cow moose numbers in the fall. Then some how increase your number of spring bear hunts. Your good success this year of large boars should get the attention of many guys wanting a nice rug. May take a few years to see significant results.

The problem is we don't hunt bears in the spring up north, the spring hunts are in my other concession. We kill a couple in the fall, but not the numbers we really need. The access is so difficult it really prohibits any real number of bear hunts happening, and logistically it's very expensive to operate for the cost of a bear hunt.
I'm sure the solution will come to me 😉

[Norwest Alta]

Not to derail but I never would of thought they'd eat that many calves and fawns. Never bought a bear tag in my life. That'll be changing this fall.

[boonerkiller]

In talking with a Yukon resident, he mentioned that the Grizz there each take down 35-40 moose calves every spring. A number he got from the bio...does seem like a lot.

[Torkdiesel]

Originally Posted by boonerkiller

In talking with a Yukon resident, he mentioned that the Grizz there each take down 35-40 moose calves every spring. A number he got from the bio...does seem like a lot.

Yep. It's pretty wild to think about how many ungulates die at the hands of predators in their first couple months of life.

As the number of wolves and bears increase each year in the boreal forest and the number of ungulates decrease, it's easy to see why the farmland moose and elk are doing so well.

I'm glad we can do our part to knock down as many of those predators as possible

[bearstalker234]

wow! holy crap look at the size of that one guy on the tail gate...
bear hunting is the greatest!!

[igotamike]

Great pics man. Thanks for sharing