strothershwacker
Senior Member
I'm after my first stickbow bear this year. Anybody else on here targeting bear this year?
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Stickbow bear
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wag03
Senior Member
I really wanted too this year but I don’t think it’s going to happen. Maybe next year
twoheartedale
Banned
I am. Headed north Thursday.
longbowdave1
Senior Member
Good luck on the bear hunting.
rnfarley
Senior Member
I'm trying to learn the bear hunting thing. We see them from time to time but mostly as opportunistic shots while deer hunting. I have a good bear on camera a few times this year so hoping to close the deal this year!
sawtooth
Senior Member
If I see one where I’m at I’ll shoot at it. My granddaddy told me that there used to be bears all around the flint river down here. I haven’t seen one.
JohnL89
Member
I've seen a bunch of sign over here. If the opportunity arises I won't hesitate , but I'd be happy with a single doe this year.
JB in GA
Senior Member
I have only hunted a few times where it was a possibility to see one while deer hunting. But I saw one fishing one day standing on a bluff on Lake Burton Dam road between Lakes Seed and Burton at about 4:00 in the afternoon. Must have been 5 or 600 lbs at least. I guess it was Rabun county.
bowhunterdavid
Senior Member
Wish you this best of luck! I know you will get it done, see you some time on a hunt this year.
frankwright
Senior Member
I had one up on his back legs right by my tree stand just below Thomaston off Birdsong road.
Trail Cam captured the picture and I thought someone was playing a joke on me but then I saw more pictures.
Trail Cam captured the picture and I thought someone was playing a joke on me but then I saw more pictures.
trad bow
wooden stick slinging driveler
I was in a lease in Twiggs county and we had bears all over us. Nothing more aggravating than having a bear around but not being able to shoot it may be just as aggravating.
JB in GA
Senior Member
About a year ago we moved my folks out of the home I grew up in, into a house off Barrett Pkwy in Marietta. I spent the night with them during the holidays and they apologized about the neighbor’s dog barking at night. Come to find out he was just doing his job, because the neighbor shined a large bear in the shrubbery when he went to hush the dog. This is within sight of Kennesaw Mt.
strothershwacker
Senior Member
Poor bear, lost & stuck on Barrett parkway! I know how he feels. At traffics thickern hair on a dog's back! Any bear that'd leave the mountains to go into town should be shot because he must be stark raving mad!
splatek
UAEC
@strothershwacker yessir. I’ll be in the hills chasing bear this weekend with my stick bow. Been practicing with that dang thing as much as I can with a newborn in the crib and scouted most of spring and summer.
Folks be telling me “find the white oaks” so I spent the better part of four to five months finding white oaks... that now aren’t producing squat. Feeling a little lost four days Before the opener, but that ain’t gonna stop me. I have several bears on cam in what I think are travel corridors, but once some of these oaks hit they are just going to change.
Good luck to you this season sir. I hope you get a good one that you can share with the board!
And that bear lost in the city. Poor thing.
Folks be telling me “find the white oaks” so I spent the better part of four to five months finding white oaks... that now aren’t producing squat. Feeling a little lost four days Before the opener, but that ain’t gonna stop me. I have several bears on cam in what I think are travel corridors, but once some of these oaks hit they are just going to change.
Good luck to you this season sir. I hope you get a good one that you can share with the board!
And that bear lost in the city. Poor thing.
JB in GA
Senior Member
I hope you guys put the steel to them, I want to know how they eat! ?
twoheartedale
Banned
I love them! Of course the only bear I've killed was in Canada and it taste like donuts.
strothershwacker
Senior Member
Bear meats awful. If anyone kills one contact me immediately and I will come discard it for you.
devolve
Senior Member
2nd in the list!! ?
longbowdave1
Senior Member
On a serious note, bear is the only game meat that I can't eat. Had it twice, from two bears that were quickly and properly processed. Got sicker than a dog. That's why I don't bear hunt. Don't feel right about spending al the time, effort , and money if I can't eat it.
splatek
UAEC
Man, that makes sense to me. from my last year of studying bears for the season I learned that a very small fraction of bears can carry the pathogen that causes trichonosis. I have heard it's quite debilitating. Have to cook the bear meat through and through, according to my sources.
