Question on Bear Behavior

thumper523 · Nov 21, 2017

I hunt in Twiggs County and Friday night while sitting around the camp fire alone, I kept hearing something about 30 yards behind me. I finally got my good flashlight and low and behold there sat a bear watching me. I ran it off but it came back and sat closer. I finally found a good rock and ran it off again. About 5 minutes later I could hear what sounded like a dog whining for about 15 minutes. A fellow member watched a mama with cub about 2 hours earlier about 500 yards away. Could this have been mama watching me and when I ran her off, her cub was calling for her? We are covered up with bears BTW.

Killer Kyle · Nov 21, 2017

Yep. Most often, when a sow gets spooked, she runs off and leaves the cubs. They have to link up later. Both the cubs and the sows make whining or bawling noises to locate the other. I ran a sow with three cubs off last year, and the cubs saw her get spooked, and all three ran up trees. They came down after 20-30 seconds and followed her direction, but she was long gone. About a half hour later, she came back from the direction she ran, and she was bawling non stop trying to locate the cubs. I wish I had gotten it on video. It was a really cool sight. This spring, I walked up on a sow with two cubs. She and a cub ran off, but the other ran up a diagonal log leaning on another tree. That cub sat up there whining and crying out non-stop, and wouldn't come down. I decided to back out and give them their space because the last thing I wanted was to be around a cub making distress sounds when Mama comes back, and I also just wanted the mama to find her cub.
You likely experienced mama crying out looking for a cub or cubs.

tree cutter 08 · Nov 21, 2017

Yep I would agree with kyle. Seen the same thing as well.

Christian hughey · Aug 12, 2018

thumper523 said:
I hunt in Twiggs County and Friday night while sitting around the camp fire alone, I kept hearing something about 30 yards behind me. I finally got my good flashlight and low and behold there sat a bear watching me. I ran it off but it came back and sat closer. I finally found a good rock and ran it off again. About 5 minutes later I could hear what sounded like a dog whining for about 15 minutes. A fellow member watched a mama with cub about 2 hours earlier about 500 yards away. Could this have been mama watching me and when I ran her off, her cub was calling for her? We are covered up with bears BTW.[/QUOTE
You guys kill any bears on the one day hunt down there that's crap by the way. Private land only on jan 12. Sounds like they dont want them being hunted yet.They should still offer a quota for them at the wma. For those of us not lucky enough to know somebody. I'll be happy to come take care of your bear problem.

thumper523 · Aug 13, 2018

No we didn't kill any, we haven't killed a bear since the Nov season way back when.
I have never seen a bear after New Years except one's hitting corn feeders and you are not going to shoot a bear in Central Ga around any bait. And YES, they don't want the bears killed. They moved the hunt date to Jan to protect the sows.

Christian hughey · Aug 13, 2018

thumper523 said:
No we didn't kill any, we haven't killed a bear since the Nov season way back when.
I have never seen a bear after New Years except one's hitting corn feeders and you are not going to shoot a bear in Central Ga around any bait. And YES, they don't want the bears killed. They moved the hunt date to Jan to protect the sows.

Yeah unfortunately that protects the big fat head boars as well. Maybe the population will get good enough to push our buddies at dnr to open a small early season bowhunt for em and include the wma's. Just dream in but it would be nice. Well good luck this year

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