Bear!

[Reelbadfishin']

I've been deer hunting a small peice of property not far from my house for the past few years and always seen a few deer and hogs throughout the deer season and my scouting time in the woods. This year I did the same as the past years threw feed and put out feeders but obviously attracted some unwanted bears. Now I'm not seeing nearly as much sign of deer or pigs in the area. Anyone has some advice on how to get the bears out of the area? I stopped feeding about a week ago I hopes that they move to another area to find other food. Thanks in advance!

[MarshRat89]

Contact WLF. They can probably trap and relocate them.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by Reelbadfishin'

I've been deer hunting a small peice of property not far from my house for the past few years and always seen a few deer and hogs throughout the deer season and my scouting time in the woods. This year I did the same as the past years threw feed and put out feeders but obviously attracted some unwanted bears. Now I'm not seeing nearly as much sign of deer or pigs in the area. Anyone has some advice on how to get the bears out of the area? I stopped feeding about a week ago I hopes that they move to another area to find other food. Thanks in advance!

The private lands biologist in your area is based out of New Iberia. Mike Drewry, he deals with the bears. I fish with him occasionally. Unless its a nuisance though, not sure if there is anything they can do. LDWF has a pamphlet out on how to deal with bears, it may be on their website. If you are around Avery Island, they are not uncommon there and are pretty common closer to Cypremort Point they can be a nuisance in the trashcans there. Stopping with the feeding is definitely a good start. Once that sugarcane in that area gets harvested though, they go back to the woods where the acorns are.

[Reelbadfishin']

Is it legal to shoot them with a rubber bullet or something non lethal? I would think after getting peppered with that a few times it would get the hint and move along.

[I make oil]

I used to hunt as a guest of Chet Morrison at Belle Isle a few times a year and they were given rubber buckshot by the LDWF to use on the bears if they became a nuisance.

[Clampy]

Originally Posted by Reelbadfishin'

Is it legal to shoot them with a rubber bullet or something non lethal? I would think after getting peppered with that a few times it would get the hint and move along.

Let's just say that I have it on good authority that if you shoot one in the A$$ with a blunt tip arrow and 70# draw that it will drag its butt on the ground like a dog haul a$$ and will not return.


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[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by Reelbadfishin'

Is it legal to shoot them with a rubber bullet or something non lethal? I would think after getting peppered with that a few times it would get the hint and move along.

Not technically legal to harass wildlife, and this is a threatened species so there is that. Nuisance bears are shot with buckshot to 'haze' them so they know not to come around. When they are released from the cage they get shot in the azz.

They are hardly ever aggressive, I wouldn't worry about them. Just think about why they are there - there is food. Discontinue feeding them and they have no reason to be where you are. That is the politically correct answer

Now that being said, if one was trying to climb a tree I am in and/or threatening me I would have not one iota of care to shoot him with some rubber buckshot Sometimes its easier to ask for foregiveness than permission

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by Clampy

Let's just say that I have it on good authority that if you shoot one in the A$$ with a blunt tip arrow and 70# draw that it will drag its butt on the ground like a dog haul a$$ and will not return.


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Hypothetically right?

[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

Not technically legal to harass wildlife, and this is a threatened species so there is that. Nuisance bears are shot with buckshot to 'haze' them so they know not to come around. When they are released from the cage they get shot in the azz.

They are hardly ever aggressive, I wouldn't worry about them. Just think about why they are there - there is food. Discontinue feeding them and they have no reason to be where you are. That is the politically correct answer

Now that being said, if one was trying to climb a tree I am in and/or threatening me I would have not one iota of care to shoot him with some rubber buckshot Sometimes its easier to ask for foregiveness than permission

So say for instance I don't have rubber bullets, And one climbs up my tree? Do I just try to wound him? We have a few where I deer hunt also. Never seen one myself but the landowner has and my buddy that hunts down the road said he seen one cross a pipeline a couple years ago along with catching them on camera.


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[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by MarshRat89

So say for instance I don't have rubber bullets, And one climbs up my tree? Do I just try to wound him? We have a few where I deer hunt also. Never seen one myself but the landowner has and my buddy that hunts down the road said he seen one cross a pipeline a couple years ago along with catching them on camera.


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From what I understand and I hunt and have worked at Tensas where bears are common is that if you shoot one out of 'self defense' you better have some scars

I have some pics of one that was sitting in the back of my truck. I left a packaged sandwich back there to heat up while I was gone.

[Clampy]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

Hypothetically right?

Of course. Everything I say is hear say and prolly has not one ounce of truth behind it.


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[Reelbadfishin']

So just because the bears are in the area doesn't necessarily mean that they running the deer off correct?

[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

From what I understand and I hunt and have worked at Tensas where bears are common is that if you shoot one out of 'self defense' you better have some scars

I have some pics of one that was sitting in the back of my truck. I left a packaged sandwich back there to heat up while I was gone.

Go pro bro! All the evidence I need.


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[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by Reelbadfishin'

So just because the bears are in the area doesn't necessarily mean that they running the deer off correct?

You probably aren't going to see a deer in the same company as a bear, but they live together just fine. Usually on our game cameras, once the bear shows up the deer go away and come back when he/she leaves. Bears can and do eat deer if they are an easy target (like a fawn) but they pretty much just go after the easy pickings like a corn feeder or trashcan when its available

[Duck Butter]

This was at the McLemore Tract of Tensas NWR. If you want your best opportunity to see a bear in Louisiana, this area would be up there

[Duck Butter]

This was a giant male the guys from University of TN tried to catch to weigh but he was trap shy

The one in a tree was one that was having cubs. They 'hibernate' and give birth during that time

[Duck Butter]

And here are a couple other random pics from that folder


The ducks stack up on the MS River (canvasbacks and scaup) at Tallabena, they wait for the barges to offload corn and eat the scraps. Literally thousands of them, and when I took this pic and looked closer there was a surf scoter (top left) in the pic, kinda unusual for North Louisiana

The gobbler was strutting in the middle of winter

and the other is a random I just saw

[jchief]

I saw a black bear last year in the Mclemore area that was literally as big as my 4 wheeler.

[duckman1911]

I'd just smoke check that critter, drag it off far enough that I couldn't smell it and continue deer hunting. Bear meat isn't very good anyway. That's just me though.

[duckman1911]

Y'all are aware that bears have been known to attack and even kill people right? Maybe y'all missed that article. lol. Just messin with y'all. Seriously though I don't want to be any where around a critter that may place me second on the food chain. I'd just grey matter splatter that critter on sight and continue on my way.