In my pajamas.
Posted on 08/09/2020 5:28:47 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Black Bear hunting may be the most varied kind of hunting on the planet and it’s a very different hunting experience to every person you talk to. It could mean hunting over bait or spot and stalk, with boats or with hounds, arrows or bullets, public land or private. It could be within an hour’s drive of home or an all-out Alaskan adventure.
In the last three years, I’ve tried most of the methods and I’ve brought home two black bears. Whatever you think you know about each of those methods, don’t judge them until you’ve tried them yourself. Hunting bears with whatever method or tool is just not as easy as it sounds.
Hunting with hounds and horses in Idaho, for instance, is one of the biggest adventures you can have.
Regarding Hounds
The first thing you need to know is that hound hunting means working with highly skilled individuals — both the dogs and the owners. The dogs have been trained to find and follow the scent of bears. The seven Treeing Walker hounds I’ve worked with also pursue cougars and bobcats.
The dogs run around and around sniffing the ground looking for bears. Once they find a scent that is fresh enough to be exciting, they sound off making a big noise to let you know they’re onto something. They take off barking along the trail, hoping they’re going the right direction, and coming back to go the other way to find the freshest scent.
The dogs are going and going, trying to get close to a bear and chasing it until it climbs a tree to get away from the dogs. Bears run faster than dogs, but they know dogs don’t climb trees, so they’ll take refuge up a tree until the dogs leave.
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You’ll put your eye out!
I have been shot by a BB gun. My childhood was kind of like the Wild West. If I went crazy on the shooter, I wouldn’t chance it with a bear. But, your results may vary.
Lewis & Clark carried and used air rifles on their cross continent trip.
.50 caliber air rifle with 650 ft-lbs of energy at the muzzle. You'll shoot your head off kid.
“I have been shot by a BB gun. My childhood was kind of like the Wild West. If I went crazy on the shooter, I wouldn’t chance it with a bear. But, your results may vary.”
Good article. You should read it!
Holmes nemesis, Colonel Moran, used his air rifle extensively to settle scores in Merry Olde London.
“Lewis & Clark carried and used air rifles on their cross continent trip.”.
Probably one, but he did his darndest t8 convince the Indians that each member of his party had on!
Lewis & Clark carried and used air rifles on their cross continent trip.
Of course, their air rifle was around .50 caliber.
BB is the size of the round shot fired from a BB gun. It is .177” dia.
I enjoyed the article but that was no BB gun.
There’s a famous story of a kid, only 3 years old, who killed him a “bahr”.
Yeah, not quite like the pump up Crossman I use for critters in the garage.
“””The gun I used was Airforce Airguns’ Texan LSS .50 CF, which Riley Baxter reviewed in last month’s issue of Hunt365. It’s a .50 caliber rifle with an incredible 34” barrel, and it sent my bullet with about 650 ft/lbs of energy at the muzzle, so it surpasses the legal requirements for hunting.
Big bore airguns like this one use a whole lot of air to push the bullets, and that makes a loud report. The Texan LSS .50 CF comes with a suppressor, and it’s very effective.
The impulse is to think that you’re hunting with a big BB gun. But a 500-grain bullet weighs more than an entire .308 cartridge. This gun could do a lot more than shoot your eye out.”””””
I had to check to see if this is AM Shooting Journal. :)
With a compass in the stock!
“The Adventure Of The Empty House.’’
In my pajamas.
Whatever - I’ve seen a bear up close. Would be hard with 1911.
So big coons basically
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