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Post by Sandbur on Feb 4, 2021 5:02:05 GMT -6
The area where I live was unlimited tags this year, though still in the quota area.Lots of Bear were killed and most of us view this as a good thing. This is what I would consider a heavy ag area with very little government ground.
Some of those Bear were killed in the cornfields.
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Post by benmnwi on Feb 4, 2021 14:34:14 GMT -6
I really like bears and actually wish we had a few in SE MN that we could occasionally hunt. It gets pretty irritating though when you are absolutely covered in bears with no way to legally hunt them.
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Post by kooch on Feb 4, 2021 15:28:37 GMT -6
I walk up on them rounding a bend in my plot every year for the last three in a row, middle of the day. They always react the same way. They stretch their neck a little and sniff the wind. Then they look mildly annoyed, and wander into the woods heading North into the big mass of state/county/res land. They don’t hurry either.
Plenty of bear in the Kooch. They didn’t seem like large bears though. Got me to start lugging around a pea shooter though.
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Post by Satchmo on Feb 4, 2021 16:21:04 GMT -6
A buddy & I will both probably draw a permit this year. I don’t hunt them until October though. Cooler temps, bigger bears, and a lot less bugs. I’ve got a ton of the big timber skunks running around.
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Post by nhmountains on Feb 4, 2021 21:22:08 GMT -6
I really like bears and actually wish we had a few in SE MN that we could occasionally hunt. It gets pretty irritating though when you are absolutely covered in bears with no way to legally hunt them. Be careful what you wish for Ben. Those apple trees you have would be prime targets for the black furry things. I remember when I saw my first pile of bear shit on my property and being really psyched. I quickly learned they love all of the habitat improvements I’ve done whether it be clover, apples, clearings for blackberries and raspberries or trail mowing. If I never had another bear on my property I’d be happy. I know that’s unrealistic though. A balance of wildlife is a good thing for the most part but, I could go without the busted trees, busted cages, chewed gas tanks, shredded trees, broken cameras, to name a few. |
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Post by benmnwi on Feb 5, 2021 13:14:19 GMT -6
The WI bear results are listed now and my zone went from requiring 9 preference points down to 2. With a little luck the bear population by my property will drop the next few years since we can now hunt them hard. Guys hunting zones A and B take more points now though - they need 8 and 11.
It will be interesting to see how this turns out, but that's a huge change for our zone. They want to drop the bear numbers there and they are certainly trying to do that.
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Post by benmnwi on Feb 5, 2021 14:29:17 GMT -6
I really like bears and actually wish we had a few in SE MN that we could occasionally hunt. It gets pretty irritating though when you are absolutely covered in bears with no way to legally hunt them. Be careful what you wish for Ben. Those apple trees you have would be prime targets for the black furry things. I remember when I saw my first pile of bear shit on my property and being really psyched. I quickly learned they love all of the habitat improvements I’ve done whether it be clover, apples, clearings for blackberries and raspberries or trail mowing. If I never had another bear on my property I’d be happy. I know that’s unrealistic though. A balance of wildlife is a good thing for the most part but, I could go without the busted trees, busted cages, chewed gas tanks, shredded trees, broken cameras, to name a few. I don't mind bears if I can get tags over the counter. My place in MN is in the no-quota bear zone, so I could buy one at any time. Bears are really rare here though, so it would be like hunting a unicorn. |
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Post by benmnwi on Feb 17, 2021 20:25:35 GMT -6
My postcard came from the wi dnr today telling me I'll be bear hunting this fall.
This should be a really fun hunt and im getting payback for all the apple trees and fawns they eat.
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Post by jflonll on Feb 17, 2021 21:38:44 GMT -6
My grand daughter got her zone A tag today. I believe she had 9 or 10 points.
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Post by terrifictom on Jan 13, 2022 13:54:37 GMT -6
My friend is also at 0 preference points now, so I think he drew a bear tag as well. Hopefully we can bag two on my land next year. Ben how did you guys do last bear season? |
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Post by benmnwi on Jan 13, 2022 16:32:39 GMT -6
My friend is also at 0 preference points now, so I think he drew a bear tag as well. Hopefully we can bag two on my land next year. Ben how did you guys do last bear season? We didn't have a very good season. I hunted about a dozen days and never saw a legal bear. My friend hunted one night and killed a 200 pound boar. Normally we see tons of bears, but the dnr trapped most of them before the season started. |
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Post by nhmountains on Jan 13, 2022 23:24:48 GMT -6
Ben how did you guys do last bear season? We didn't have a very good season. I hunted about a dozen days and never saw a legal bear. My friend hunted one night and killed a 200 pound boar. Normally we see tons of bears, but the dnr trapped most of them before the season started. Why did they trap? Were the nuisance bear and were endangering people? |
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Post by benmnwi on Jan 14, 2022 11:35:28 GMT -6
We didn't have a very good season. I hunted about a dozen days and never saw a legal bear. My friend hunted one night and killed a 200 pound boar. Normally we see tons of bears, but the dnr trapped most of them before the season started. Why did they trap? Were the nuisance bear and were endangering people? Crop damage on neighboring farms. They typically trap the bears when they are hitting the corn fields in late summer. They trapped and transplanted 53 off the properties owned and leased by the neighboring farmers. I had a lot of nice bears on camera in late summer, but most were gone before the season started. I had corn on my ag land, so I thought that would keep a bunch of bears on my place, but that wasn't the case. They left the sows and cubs and trapped and transplanted nearly all of the lone bears. |
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