Spring bear?

[Greenhorn]

I remeber you talking about the set up to me, never saw a pic though. I found if they sent me socks, I could put them out for two weeks every second day.

[cb750]

Out of curiosity are you heading to crown land or are you hunting private. I don't want to know where. I'm not prying for info. Just curious if you expect to bait on public and hope it doesn't get bothered? Have you had experience with this because it is something I also want to do on my own.

[bellerivercrossbowhunter]

Out of curiosity are you heading to crown land or are you hunting private. I don't want to know where. I'm not prying for info. Just curious if you expect to bait on public and hope it doesn't get bothered? Have you had experience with this because it is something I also want to do on my own.

We hunt crown land. Never an issue with our baits or cameras being touched by humans.

[SK33T3R]

I remeber you talking about the set up to me, never saw a pic though. I found if they sent me socks, I could put them out for two weeks every second day.

I guess socks would work - and if you proved it out - then hey! it must work. I got the shirt idea front a bear product supplier from Wisconsin 20 yrs ago. He hunts 4 or 5 different states/provinces. He always mailed tshirts to the outfitters to be hung before he arrived. He liked to get his bear in the first 2 days then go fishing for the rest of the week. He said "better to be looking at them early then looking for them later" ...

just bought 15 new game cameras and getting ready for this years bear adventures. Eeehaw!

[Greenhorn]

congrats,i only bought 6 last year. buying maybe 12 more this spring. your right about early. good luck Dennis.

[Greenhorn]

I’m running 18 baits this year. 6 in three different zones. Everybody hunts a fresh bait. I know all the wind direction for each stand and try to get them tohunt the wind. One guy lost two 350-400 pounders . Last fall, another trophy huffed at him the first night, so he flashed the area before coming down and the bear came in later. Lol,he’s not hunting there in the spring. The trophy bears on this river, unreal.

[cb750]

We hunt crown land. Never an issue with our baits or cameras being touched by humans.

Good to hear!

[skull]

This will be our first time spring bear hunting!

The season run's May 01 to June 15th. We are open to hunt for a full week & pre-bait on 3 separate weekends before our hunting week.

So with that said I want to know what your thoughts are on what you think is the best week to hunt? Beginning-middle or end of the season?

Best week for bear hunt in the last 15 days of the season

[Greenhorn]

this is my 6 years in zone 13 and it takes one boar 6 weeks to make it to my bait. the rut starts around the third week of May and runs to the end of June.I find more and more boars every week,but they need the food. Good to see you Skull,still remember the vanilla,lol.

[SK33T3R]

congrats,i only bought 6 last year. buying maybe 12 more this spring. your right about early. good luck Dennis.

I've bought so many cameras over the years. started with the string activated timers ... then got into the 35mm cameras with film ... paid for a LOT of 1 hr developing. Then the early digitals ... some only had less then 1/2 gb capacity. Then color digital and now sound. red LEDs, black LEDS .... "C" batteries, "AA", "D", 6volt, 12 volt, solar panels, sealed lead acid 6v and 12v, lithium AA, I've had them all and up to 6 of each! GRRR!

WTF?! I coulda supported Newfoundland during the cod collapse with the money I spent.
And of course if one camera works then 2 per site is better.

currently I run ALL my equipment on 18650 rechargeable lithium batteries. Batteries are free - salvaged from laptops - I make battery packs and use this power as an auxiliary source. I now leave Costco with groceries NOT batteries HAH!
The cameras I bought were $45 each. We bought 4 different kinds and tested them for illumination, field of view, file size, ease of use, video quality (graininess) and sound quality. The 15 I finally bought tested better with video quality, field of view, Illumination distance both in distance and left and right, great night video clarity BUT the sound was almost non existing. we tore down the camera and discover the MIC on the circuit board was buried in the guts of the camera. I ordered new MICS and made adapters to hold the mic to the underside of the front door. a .076 hole drilled and the mic hot glued into place. This camera is awesome now.

The buried MIC is a design flaw and I bet there's a Chinese engineer in jail somewhere.

We've been running 2 of these cameras since before Christmas and they seem to be holding up just fine with the weather we've had.

I'd rather lose a $45 camera then a $150 one. the cameras are a Chinese product (DUH go figure) and are model H-882 ... I see now on eBay the cheapest is now $89. How - why - I don't know - but we found a seller in California and got ours for $45 US each.