Anyone ever tried to call in black bears

AdamMck

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Hello everyone, I am planning an East TN Black bear hunt and I was hoping to up my chances by doing a little calling. Has anyone been successful calling bears? I have watched a few youtube vids and it appears to work out West.
 
I haven't, however, a friend of mine called one in while coyote hunting using jack rabbit distress. Made it into a nice rug. Just happened to be bear season and he had a tag.
 
They will respond to fawn and cub distress get with bearmanrick on here he makes a great bear call and he also calls
them good luck hope you call one in
 
Calling bears works well if there are bears in the area. I scout for sign, droppings etc. Calling in areas where there are no farms works better.Any place there are grain crops it's near impossible to call them out of the crop. We have lots of canola grown here and I've yet to find a canola distress call. I do here some farmers whining loudly about hail damage. That might work.
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Calling in the spring works better for me as well, brfoe the crops are growing.

And for sure contact Bearmanric. He makes great calls.

I found loud and continuous calling works best. As long as you're calling they seem to keep comoing. Stop and they seem to forget what they were doing. This can work to your advantage, because it can give you time to check for cubs, size of the bear, or fur condition. Start calling again and he will strat coming to the call again.

They certainly can be called in and close enough for archery.
 
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Thanks fellas, I'm planning on hunting the Foothills WMA in Blount county TN. We have been told it's best to still hunt and we are gonna call them like we would a coyote and see how it goes. I just scored the Prairie Blaster 2 from a buddy and hopefully that does the ticket.
 

A few years ago, while calling one evening for coyotes, I called in a black bear. It was a medium sized bear the best I could tell. Season was a couple of months away. Besides that, I only had a .223 AR.

I had just finished calling and had packed up my gear, when I decided to walk on down the path in the woods a bit to see what the small clearing ahead looked like. I hadn't hunted the area before and was curious what the terrain was like. It was getting dark but not enough to need a light.

As I was punching some keys on my GPS to take coordinates, I heard this "huffing" sound. I looked up and wondered what it was, then heard it again. Standing the trail that ran across the top of a ridge to the point where I was standing, was a black bear about 30 yards or so from me.

I yelled at him and he backed down, went off into the brush, still "huffing" and making all kinds of noise, as well as breaking sticks as he departed. I watched my back trail on the way out.

I used a variety of sounds when trying to call a coyote, but mainly rabbit sounds.

Just goes to show you never know what you might call up.

 
Deer hunting club in the Florida panhandle called in several successfully.

Game biologists told them coyotes were responsible for loss of fawns on their hunting lease, so they decided to go coyote hunting. Said they bought a fawn in distress call, and tried calling yotes... Didn't have a single yote show up, but they had bear show up on a real regular basis. On more than one stand they had multiple bear show up at the same time.
 
never called one in but i usually see 2-4 different ones every bow season and i have hunted bear with dogs for years [beeep] i dont really do that any more. something i noticed was i haven't ever seen a bear out and about before 3:00 in the afternoon and after 3:00 is when we always seemed to find HOT tracks. i know its not wrote in stone but i would say that 3:00pm - 3:00am is when my bear around here or moving then its like from 3:00 am - 3:00 pm they bed down. also the beds i have always found have been in the thickest parts of these mountains. places it took me for ever to navigate through and often couldn't and had to go around.
 
Never tried it..but had a big 400lber showup while,i was calling a gobbler one morning up in Redrock,Pa. what a sight that was...I had a few drinks after,i left the woods..LOL
 
Originally Posted By: Rocky1Deer hunting club in the Florida panhandle called in several successfully.

Game biologists told them coyotes were responsible for loss of fawns on their hunting lease, so they decided to go coyote hunting. Said they bought a fawn in distress call, and tried calling yotes... Didn't have a single yote show up, but they had bear show up on a real regular basis. On more than one stand they had multiple bear show up at the same time.

There is a guy I know (my son hunted at his place) that has a rather large expanse of land and lots of deer on it. As well, he seems to have a rather healthy black bear population. Anyway, the guy found a bear den, and outside the den were numerous deer carcasses (bones and such). Many were small as in "fawns" but some were larger. It was very obvious the bear was dragging deer there.

 
I was calling for Wolves a couple of years ago and was using a homemade electronic call, the sound I used was a distressed Pup. The Bear came in to about thirty yards. I didnt have a Bear tag, and we mutually parted company. The bear came in to the caller within one minute.
 
Several years ago in Missouri , had a group doing a canoe trip overnight. Camped on a gravel bar
and was getting ready to cook steaks and had a lone Conservation agent stop, ask us a few questions and ask us to have the kids bury the scraps.."really deep". We all said, raccoon??....he said, ummm NO, BIGGER....We all looked puzzled then he said. "Bears" !!!
We said we had no weapons and what do we do if one approaches? He said, well, you cant do a thing unless they are attacking you or are going to maim or kill someone. Told us a man was trying to save his dog recently and shot a Black Bear, but was fined 1000.00 dollars and lost hunting rights for a year.
Total crap, but that was the law I guess. So unless things have changed, not gonna shoot a bear in Missouri. Even though the Department of Conservation denied we had any until they started getting run over by cars every year. Same with Mountain Lions......Our Department of Conservation is like Obama, they find out about stuff on the news....they know nothing.
 
I had a big black bear come in the other day.
He came in to all coyote sounds no food sounds. Howls challenges and pup stuff...
I guess he came to eat the looser.
 
During spring turkey season a couple years ago I called in a larger bear. I heard a noise, turned around, and saw this bear 40 yards away sitting and watching me. Waved and he left. Later that same season I called in a smaller yearling to about 60 yards and as soon as he hit my scent trail he took off. Both came in within 20 minutes of me using hen yelps.
 
Yes you can call black bears in. Last year I went on a black bear hunt. The guy who took me used a hand call. Got a pretty good size bear on the second stand. As a matter of fact he got another bear yesterday using a hand call.
 
I have called several in here in Pa while calling coyotes , most times it has been in the spring of the year useing a fawn in distress.
 
I have a cousin that hunts in Idaho and has killed some whopper bears buy calling with a fawn in distress. He says it is definitely an adrenaline rush. He says they come in hard not stopping most the time. Better be ready to shoot!
 


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