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So, I have this shack on the Front Range and have had a bear pay a trio of visits. Pushed a door in and got some leftover peanuts and did the best he could with a bottle of Wesson oil. Next time he raided the outdoor mousetraps and kinda upset my outdoor kitchen set up. Once he feasted on blue timber marking paint and made a mess.
Folks are up there at least every week and have not seen him and he comes by when no one is there. I don't want to have to board up the place and then come back a few days later and undo everything.
What can I do to discourage him from visiting the camp?
Thinking about a trip wire and oc spray but that is pricey.
Other ideas?
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Clean up the area.
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Plywood laid on the ground or deck with nails sticking up. Put it in front of doors and windows.
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Somebody said something about a can of bear spray wrapped with bacon. I'm don't know nothing, but sounded like a good idea when I read it. I'm pretty sure it was in Elf's recent bear thread.
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Shutters over windows, including door if it has window. Bears less likely to go in if they can't see thru window or see a reflection. Hinged or just plywood cut to fit and set over windows with some kind of latch.
Boards with nails seem like a good idea until you or a guest forget they are out there. We used to use them, shutters work better.
Also tried electric fence charger with battery and wire strung on insulators around camp, across windows and doors. Works right up until battery goes dead. Shutters work better!
(Notice a theme here?)
Baited aerosol cans of whatever just leave a bigger mess when bears go ape$h!t, and only train one bear. (done that too, shutters work better!)
As for your outdoor kitchen, if you want to keep it best fix involves leg hold traps and slugs.
But, if you already have a bear trained/acclimated to finding tasty stuff at your camp, nothing may really work until you get rid of that bear. And if its a sow it could train next year's cubs too!
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Sounds like a lifelong supply of pot roasts.
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What can I do to discourage him from visiting the camp?
Thanks,
TF
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If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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you just have to learn to live with them.remember you moved to there area.they are just pretty little bears til they tear up your chit.
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Shutters over windows, including door if it has window. Bears less likely to go in if they can't see thru window or see a reflection. Hinged or just plywood cut to fit and set over windows with some kind of latch.
Boards with nails seem like a good idea until you or a guest forget they are out there. We used to use them, shutters work better.
Also tried electric fence charger with battery and wire strung on insulators around camp, across windows and doors. Works right up until battery goes dead. Shutters work better!
(Notice a theme here?)
Baited aerosol cans of whatever just leave a bigger mess when bears go ape$h!t, and only train one bear. (done that too, shutters work better!)
As for your outdoor kitchen, if you want to keep it best fix involves leg hold traps and slugs.
But, if you already have a bear trained/acclimated to finding tasty stuff at your camp, nothing may really work until you get rid of that bear. And if its a sow it could train next year's cubs too! Mike: Is that a Dissertation on the Welfare SYstem in our country? You are a smart man.
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Shutters over windows, including door if it has window. Bears less likely to go in if they can't see thru window or see a reflection. Hinged or just plywood cut to fit and set over windows with some kind of latch.
Boards with nails seem like a good idea until you or a guest forget they are out there. We used to use them, shutters work better.
Also tried electric fence charger with battery and wire strung on insulators around camp, across windows and doors. Works right up until battery goes dead. Shutters work better!
(Notice a theme here?)
Baited aerosol cans of whatever just leave a bigger mess when bears go ape$h!t, and only train one bear. (done that too, shutters work better!)
As for your outdoor kitchen, if you want to keep it best fix involves leg hold traps and slugs.
But, if you already have a bear trained/acclimated to finding tasty stuff at your camp, nothing may really work until you get rid of that bear. And if its a sow it could train next year's cubs too! Exactamundo.  Back in the early 70's I spent a lot of time in the far back-country of the Alberta Rockies. The NPS had ranger cabins set up in these remote areas, and they were fully stocked with canned goods, etc. They weren't locked up, but they were stoutly closed up with heavy plywood shutters. Some had doors with nails pounded through them (pointy end out), but most just had a stout plywood door that was hinged to open outward instead of inward. Bears get into cabins by pushing. A stout shutter will resist the push, and the bears will give up and move on.
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Also tried electric fence charger with battery and wire strung on insulators around camp, across windows and doors. Works right up until battery goes dead. Shutters work better! A solar charger is what you need. It will keep the battery going indefinitely. They're not cheap but they're a lot cheaper than repairing torn up doors, etc.
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Plywood laid on the ground or deck with nails sticking up. Put it in front of doors and windows. This
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Ok guys, thanks. Will start with the shutters and nails.
May get the trip wire with oc canister later.
I was up there alone once and one night he gave me an irritated "woof" from behind some willows. Persistent sonuvagun.
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Ok guys, thanks. Will start with the shutters and nails.
May get the trip wire with oc canister later.
I was up there alone once and one night he gave me an irritated "woof" from behind some willows. Persistent sonuvagun. Sounds like your warning, kill it.
These are my opinions, feel free to disagree.
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What can I do to discourage him from visiting the camp?
Thanks,
TF
Stop feeding it. rule #1
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A grizzly will make your black bear problem go away...
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Yes, that thought crossed my mind.
A bear, maybe this one but maybe not, got into a neighbors chicken house and also took two pigs from a place a couple miles away.
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Yes, that thought crossed my mind.
A bear, maybe this one but maybe not, got into a neighbors chicken house and also took two pigs from a place a couple miles away. If the bear has learned easy pickings at farms and camps it has to go - relocation or killed. I'd be keeping a loaded 12 gauge handy if staying at your camp.
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A load of #4 steel shot to the a$$ from about 30 yrds or more with an open choke and preferably a short barrel.
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