Thread: Grizzly bears in Ontario???

These pics are from several years ago. Seems that the bear attacked while the people were inside their tents. I can't remember where I read about it.

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This is one man's head--

Lots of pink flesh so i would assume all 3 made recoveries.. Amazing they made it out alive!! That guys foot i would worry that he couldnt fight off infection with hole and wound.... Easy to feel like you won the battle even if they did have to amputate below knee though .

We see tons of stuff crossing right at that spot on our road I just happened to get this one we have a ton of Blackies around us
Now we haven't actually had one on the porch or in the barn for a few years

Reason #1 I built a Bear Proof Cover for the back of the truck where we keep the trash to drive to the dump
Reason #2 The neighbors up the road leave their trash unsecured outside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SODasbO6Eas

Black bear hunters have been told to go to any dump if they want to shoot a bear as a joke. Black bears, any bears really, do like trash/garbage and people are pretty careless with how they store their trash which is a bad combination. Who can turn down a free lunch.

Posted a photo of a Black bear chowing down on dandy lions on a photo forum. Sure enough I had someone ask how many days I had to track the bear to get the shot. Those are the types of people who should not go in the bush. Black bears are common enough that you see them along rural roads and don't need to harass them by tracking them and possibly annoying them into a charge.

Bears aren't slow either but are damn good sprinters. Had the privilege of watching two young Griz chasing an Elk running down hill. If that Elk didn't have a short head start and wasn't a distant runner they would have had him. Use your telephoto lens to get close not your feet.

Bob

This is for anyone who thinks he/she can out run or out climb a bear. Especially a motivated Mom...

[EDIT]: sorry - looks like you have to click over to Youtube to watch, but it's worth it.

Originally Posted by BobH

Black bear hunters have been told to go to any dump if they want to shoot a bear as a joke. Black bears, any bears really, do like trash/garbage and people are pretty careless with how they store their trash which is a bad combination.

Funny story but a true one

Some years back I decided to Hunt Bear in CO, we were flush with Bear because of a few changes in the hunting laws

No Dogs
No Bait Stations preseason
No Spring Bear hunt

Seemed like every other night on the news was a story about bears in backyards and on Golf courses, DOW was begging for hunters

So I went out, the Great White Hunter armed with a .338 win mag and a 10mm pistol I was literally armed for Bear
My first step out of the truck and onto a dead log found me face to tail with a young Skunk that was really trying to aim at me, I, of course, ran screaming like a Little Girl "No No No" never occurred to me to draw either weapon

Anyway on with the story, I ran into a Ranger within maybe 1 hour of the Skunk scare who checked my bonifides and mentioned some tactics to me

As he pointed on my USGS map (Pre-GPS) to where they had just relocated a troublesome bear on a hilltop that week, he mentioned that to get on the track I should start at the Dumpsters just south of that hilltop and work my way from there
He also sternly explained that using Bait was no longer allowed, but cooking Bacon for breakfast maybe some Bacon for a BLT at lunch, and some more Bacon to put on my Chili at night might be a good idea.. (With a wink he said that is how they draw them in for relocation)

Sure enough, the Dumpster tracking tactic found tracks coming in and out hehe Fun times

Bears have been clocked at around 30MPH.

The "joke" used to be, the difference between a Black Bear and Grizzly is if you climb a tree to evade a bear a Black Bear will climb up to get you while a Grizzley will knock the tree down.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

He also sternly explained that using Bait was no longer allowed, but cooking Bacon for breakfast maybe some Bacon for a BLT at lunch, and some more Bacon to put on my Chili at night might be a good idea.. (With a wink he said that is how they draw them in for relocation)

I have never done it but I have read about hanging bacon on the electric fence around your bees.

It will draw the bear in but teach them to respect the electric fence.

I used to work for a farmer that had a half a$$ed one wire electric fence around his pasture. His cows never got out of the fence. Any cow that was new to his farm went into a corral with a fencer around it that would knock you on your rear. It took only a short while to train them......

Many years ago when I was doing field work for Green Giant in the asparagus fields my foreman used to tell about how he'd purchased some piglets and had run an electric wire around where he wanted them to stay.

He said that eventually each of them had figured out that if they ran and hit the wire they could escape. So his solution was to somehow use direct 110v instead of the 'converter'.

He said that each of them hit the wire and he thought he'd killed them, but they recovered. He said to the day they were full grown he could run a wire around an area without any electricity to it and none of them would get near that wire.

These days--------

My dog would not cross a piece of orange twine laying on the ground. She had encountered the orange fence wire enough times that she would not risk it. I had to electric with her because she could get over a 6’ chain link fence, and fairly easily too.