Originally Posted by ingwe
Originally Posted by kellory
Only bear encounter I've ever had, I went up a tree as quickly and as quietly as I could, and stayed there until I was sure it had no interest in me and had moved on. I was bow hunting, and knew I couldn't out run it.



You do know that black bears can climb trees, don't you?

And grizzlies are better at it than they are given credit for...

ingwe;
Good afternoon to you sir, I hope the weekend's been a good one for you.

While we did have a sniff of rain yesterday the bush is still closed for us for the most part, so even though it's opening day for mulies, whitetails and elk, I'm doing chores around the place and hoping for it to cool down and rain some more.

Anyway, yes for sure it must be remembered that both species can climb trees - black bears - especially the teenage ones are incredibly fast climbers. Canuck grizzlies too have been known to climb trees and deaths have resulted after the fact.

While I know it's likely in bad taste, I can't help myself from posting this. I'm sure it's Canuck too since we're not allowed to carry sidearms, so we have to brawl the bears "mano e clawo".... wink



All the best to you folks this fall ingwe and good luck on your hunts.

Dwayne

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