I would like to have a chance and getting a bear. My parents live in carter county and there land bumps up to the Cherokee nationsl forest (not the bear reserve portion). It's basically a whole mountain, several thousand acres. I remember seeing quite a few bears while deer hunting there when I was younger. It's a lot of hardwoods with laurel thickets mixed in and you can see a pretty good ways. Would you all recommend still hunting or maybe a stalk style hunt. By stalk style I mean just covering ground at a slow and steady pace. It'll be the weekend of November 22-23. Any advice?
Question for you bear hunters.
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fredfred
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Dogs :grin: But if you gotta hunt other ways I vote for stalking unless you have a food source that is getting hammered by them.
Add attractant scents and predator calling to the arsenal as well.
Diehard Hunter
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Predator calling works if there is one within earshot. They are in hyperphagy right now and will investigate any potential food source.
Agree with all of the above!
Ok, I think my buddy has a predator call he bought for coyote hunting. What type of bear attractants are you referring too?
Daniel n said:
I read an article several years ago where someone used peppermint as an attractant scent.
The company that makes the "smoking" deer scent sticks also has something similar for bears.
