Been following the various spring bear threads with great interest. I've always wanted to do a spring spot/stalk out west. Went last spring in Idaho and ended up do a hound and bait hunt with the 'spot' part being a bear coming to bait.
I'm in possession of 2 extra weeks of vacation this year and plan on doing a 2 week WY-CO elk hunt if I happen to get drawn for WY elk with the $1050 NR special tag. Been thinking a WY spring bear hunt would be good scouting trip for any elk trip that materializes.
Started looking at the WY spring bear kill stats and am a bit disillusioned by the numbers. Of the 10 units I'm looking at, the highest kill is bear unit 9 with 33 total bears last year. This number is the highest kill in all 10 units since 2011. I compared them with Montana and MT has much better spring kill numbers. Why the low spring kill numbers in WY? No one hunt them or not many bears?
