I Hate Bears

[Termite]

Don't feel all alone.

My cousin has lost a 3 wheeler fuel tank and seat, and an Argo seat to black bears. It's why we built the new shed to keep the vehicles in.

The bastards also will tear the screening off the front porch if there is any hint of blood from cleaning deer. We have to spray bleach and then pressure wash the porch before we leave, if we've cleaned a deer on it.

[blackeagle603]

Seems like the obvious solution involves suet and sausage casings.

[Darrell]

How To Kill A Grizzly With A LAWS Rocket:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73LcLOtfP4w

Go to 1:18 for the good stuff. Of course, if the dumbass pilot had just kept the blades spinning, it would've decapitated Mr. Bear.

[Netpackrat]

Seems like the obvious solution involves suet and sausage casings.

I showed the pictures to a co-worker last night who likes to hunt bear in the spring (likes to hunt damn near anything for that matter), and he suggested a similar solution. I'd like to avoid that for the same reason I haven't planted any raspberry bushes on the property; the idea is to NOT make the place any more attractive to bears.

OBTW, as regards the cold, there is an ASOS at the state maintained airport a few miles away. Out of curiosity, I check it on a regular basis during the winter. At one point in January of this year, it was showing -49F. The miners and such that lived in the area from the early 1900s through the 1930s had to have been some tough sons of bitches.

[Termite]

Dried beef soaked in ethylene glycol should work.......

[Timo]

I've heard that sugarless gum with Xylitol in it will put dogs into seizures and possibly kill them. Wonder if bears are susceptible. Whatever you do , don't leave a jumbo pack of sugarless gum laying around. You wouldn't want to see a bear doing the funky chicken, would you?

[Netpackrat]

Yeah, but our neighbor's dog is sometimes around, and while I normally wouldn't be happy about that, he's a useful little critter, and seems to enjoy chasing the squirrels that I'm trying to exclude from inside the roof. My major accomplishment last week was getting most of the eaves protected by steel mesh and spray foam. I still need to figure out a safe way to access the overhang on the front of the cabin (will probably involve some sort of scaffolding), but I think the squirrel that figured out there is insulation in there (and was pulling it out) was one of the bunch I shot last month, and they didn't seem to be coming near the cabin this time, even though I could hear plenty of them off in the distance. I only saw one, and I don't think I hit him since he was beyond my effective range with the Buck Mark. I'll have to start taking my 10/22 out there, cause I'd have had him for sure with the rifle, even though I haven't fired it in years.

[Denis]

At one point in January of this year, it was showing -49F. The miners and such that lived in the area from the early 1900s through the 1930s had to have been some tough sons of bitches.

This reminds me, but it's perhaps a bit OT: I enjoyed reading this account of how a mostly clueless wannabe trapper barely survived an Alaskan winter. He even got (and managed to cure) scurvy...

[blackeagle603]

I was talking about turning the bear into sausage -- not baiting & poisoning.

[Netpackrat]

This reminds me, but it's perhaps a bit OT: I enjoyed reading this account of how a mostly clueless wannabe trapper barely survived an Alaskan winter. He even got (and managed to cure) scurvy...

I saw that too. I was amused by how after he had managed to survive the first winter, the old trapper had apparently decided he'd paid his dues, and was worth helping. It's getting harder to live that sort of life up here, too many people around and far less game.