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Bear Hunting: No Nonsense Lures and Attractants
September kicks off fall bear season in Minnesota. Some of the highest concentrations of bears are way up in the Superior National Forest and into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. In Wisconsin the Chequamegon and Nicolet national forests produce a lot of bears. Bears are concentrated in the north and central part of the…
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Spring Bear
If you sit in one place long enough, your chances of seeing bear increase. Seldom do you get a look at Ursus Americanus when you are on the move. The predator is so in tune with its surroundings that it is alerted to any sound and scent that seems out of place. No one knew…
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Dry Side Calling – Not for the Faint of Heart
Tod Lum thumbed cartridges into the magazine and closed the bolt. We left the truck parked on the road and climbed uphill on a bare slope. Twenty minutes later we worked onto the shoulder of a finger ridge and looked down into a canyon choked with hawthorn bushes. We set the caller below us on…
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Black Bear on the Pacific Coast – Oregon
Oregon’s bear population numbers between 25,000 and 35,000 animals, spread over approximately 40,000 square miles of habitat. In 1994, voters banned the use of hounds or hunting with bait. Hunter success plummeted in the years after the ban, but as bear numbers increased and more hunters adapted to spot-and-stalk and calling tactics, hunter success has…
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The Package
O’Jambo said he was worried about T. Roy and Bill Haltz said he had noticed it too. No date had been set, but RaeBelle was marshaling her forces and it looked apparent that a wedding was in T. Roy’s immediate future. “And you know what that means,” O’Jambo said. “The worst thing that could happen…
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Big Water and Black Bear on the Salmon
A breath of wind blew down the canyon, but its treetop rustle was lost to the murmur of the river – running at 13,500 cubic feet per second – the pulse, its every crash, its ebb and flow and eddy. Swallows hunted insects above the water and a long-billed bird dipped on a stone near…
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Glass Grassy Slopes Near Pockets of Cover for Spring Bear
Timbered valleys split the grassy slopes into long green fingers stretching down toward the river. Matt lifted the ten power binoculars to his eyes. A gust of wind blew his blond hair back and he could smell the wildflowers on the warm breeze. For weeks he’d been searching these slopes for a legal bear. Now,…
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High Altitude August Bears in the Berry Patch
General season black bear hunting opens August 1 and runs through November 30 in eastern Oregon and December 31 in western Oregon. To find a bear early in the season, hunt the food sources that are available. In August and September, that means hiking the high mountain meadows and the old burns where huckleberries grow.…
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Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
“I’m not cutting my hair or shaving a whisker until I get a bear,” my cousin Neil told me over the phone. “I’m serious about this.” That was in November of 2005 with the fall bear season all but over and little chance of seeing a bruin until spring. “Well you’re going to look pretty…
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Blackpowder Black Bear – Are You Ready for the Challenge?
“There’s a bear.” “There are two of them.” When we first spotted the bears we were close, less than 200 yards away. But we were in a skiff. “Put me ashore beneath that rock,” I whispered. At the shore, I couldn’t see the bears anymore, concealed by alders and willows. I clambered out of the…
Field Guide
Bear
Read about Gary’s Oregon hunting tips and trips in his book, Hunting Oregon (pictured to the right), or read one of his many articles on bear hunting in Oregon, which we share below.
Oregon bear hunting is a fun and exciting experience, but you’ll need all the bear hunting tips you can get in order to have a successful bear hunting trip.