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hueyjazz
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# Posted: 27 Dec 2019 12:27pm
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I've had my 30 acre property now for eight years. In that time I've only actually seen a bear once. It was during cocktail hour and it walked right in front of my wife and me while we were on porch. She missed it.
Over the years I've seen several signs from paw prints to piles of #2.
This weekend it's been unusually warm on the mountain. Even though we still had ten inches of snow the temp was in the 40's.
I have an old skidoo on property from 70's. One day I walked passed it and the seat was fine. Next day I find this rip in the seat from a paw. Looks like someone took a stroll from a winter's nap. Perhaps he wanted to take the old sled for a ride.
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 27 Dec 2019 03:42pm
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I had one in my area and he was just looking around and sunk his teeth into the top of 2 of my Reliance 7 gallon water jugs, destroying both of them with leaks. I set up game camera and caught him in the act. Just doing what bears too, looking for food to get fat before winter.
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frankpaige
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# Posted: 27 Dec 2019 05:25pm
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I was up the ladder putting up siding on the cabin. It's always quiet out there. So, I could hear something making the Aspen quake. She (who knows) was slowly strolling along. ME! It was! The gun? Or the camera? Why not both! Those things can hustle! I got a couple of camera shots before the bear was out of sight.
Never returned as far as I know. It was a fun entry in the cabin log.
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NorthRick
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# Posted: 27 Dec 2019 09:09pm
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Uggg! I hate when they do that.
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Eddy G
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# Posted: 30 Dec 2019 03:22pm
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A neighbor stopped me one time and told me he had seen a couple of cubs roaming around and to keep an eye on my dog.
I laughed because I had seen one earlier that day but thought it was one of his dogs.
Fast forward a few days latter I’m in the kitchen talking to my wife and I see a bear cub walking right up the path to our cabin. Maybe 20’ from the front door when up comes it’s Mom quick. She stands up, swats the cub back and walks back down the trail.
It was all of a few seconds but WOW she was big, quick and unforgettable.
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 6 Jan 2020 09:31pm
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Quoting: Eddy G She stands up, swats the cub back and walks back down the trail.
Mom teaching the kids to leave cabineers alone, nice work mom. 
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hueyjazz
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# Posted: 7 Jan 2020 11:43am
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We camped often in NY, Adirondacks at a place call Limekiln which was close to a closed open dump. Once dump close the campground was the bears easy vittles.
For food storage they gave you a 55 gallon drum on it's side. The cover had a cross brace to keep lid closed. You were to store nothing in your car as the bears knew how to break glass.
Well, mama bear figure out the weak point of this system. Early one morning I heard grumbling outside the tent trailer. I watch mama pull back one quadrant of barrel and the cub went in tossing contents of barrel to mama. Anything she didn't want went fly into woods. I watched my stove get this treatment. Cub came out and started to eat stuff. That got a swat. It wasn't mama approve yet.
I watch this for about half an hour as the family slept as I wasn't going out to disagree with ma. And there was nothing the wife and kids would do to better the situation
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Aklogcabin
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# Posted: 8 Jan 2020 10:19am
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We were surprised one morning by a grizzly bear on our back porch. When it headed down to go after our dog on a chain I stepped out the door. The bear heard me and turned around and charged me . I ended up shooting it from four feet. The fish n game officer stated that it was probably the bear they had been getting reports on for getting into garbage. He estimated it as five years old five hundred pounds. I can still see him in my rifle scope when I think about it.
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silverwaterlady
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# Posted: 8 Jan 2020 11:15am
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Wow. I’m glad we don’t have grizzlies.
We’ve had a few bear encounters over the years.
1) We never left food in our minivan, thank goodness because we had our van parked at the dock overnight and came back the following day to find muddy bear footprints on the hood of our van.
2) Many bear and cub footprints on our beach.
3) A mama bear and two cubs were sniffing around our sleeping tent early one morning. We made some noise and they ran off.
4) Both of these occurred last summer.
A loud thrashing in the bush behind our cabin while we were sitting on our deck. A mama and young bear. We didn’t see the mom but the young bear was strolling around our outdoor shower and to near our solar panel so I yelled out and it ran off into the bush. Another time, I was hiking on a 100 year old logging trail that my BIL and nephew brushed out about 35 years ago. It is still marked in places but overgrown. So I stopped to put a marking tape up and heard a very loud crashing very close by heading my way, I yelled out and the bear changed direction. I was so afraid I didn’t look up to see the bear, lol.
We will probably be getting a puppy in March so I will have to start carrying bear spray. Our dog will not be leashed on our property, trained to stay nearby but there are so many animals that could cause him injury.
Bear spray is our only line of defense because we are in Canada and walking on our property armed is illegal unless it’s hunting season and we have a hunting permit.
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