Staying Safe while Hunting in Grizzly Country | Fresh Tracks Weekly (Ep. 53)
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- čas přidán 14. 09. 2023
- Hunting Season is upon us!
On this week's episode, we cover on Oregon's IP3, the re-opening of Swan Lake National Wildlife Refugee, and House Bill 1300 in Pennsylvania. Also, Randy and Michael give us an update on their Idaho Elk hunt and we jump into our deeper dive topic of hunting in grizzly country.
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I see grizzlies every season here in Wyoming. Most of them leave us alone. Two years ago a sow with two cubs ran across the trail 25 yards in front of us. Thankfully they kept running down the hill and away from us!
Thanks for your great shows. I flyfish and hunt in grizzly country in Alberta. I always carry bear spray and a canned air horn. This year has been a bad berry season so there seem to be more issues.
I'm in grizz country often in southern Alberta. I use electronic ear defenders that enhance my hearing by 4x. I'm rarely alone but am always looking around for bear or cougar. We gut our animals there. Once the shot goes off, making noise isn't an issue. The birds take care of gut piles right quick. The crows hear shots like dinner bells. My friend forgot a deer heart one time. He back tracked to the pile shortly after we dragged the deer out and it was gone. The other downside of the gutless method is the tenderloins. I'm not leaving those.
Big male bears will emerge occasionally in winter during warm times like a chinook and maybe find some carion.
I may go hunt some whitetail in the mountain zones for early rifle season (bucks only) in October. I don't bow hunt. I don't like the idea of meat spoiling in warm weather. Bear spray at the hip and stubby slugger on the pack are your friends when you don't have a rifle. We can't carry pistols here.
On the bright side, my friend won a draw for cow moose tag for outside of bear country in November and I won 2 tags for cow elk for the late season in Dec/Jan in bear country so I'll be fine. We will be gutting and retrieving those tenderloins. 😁
I do live in Oregon, and I think the problem is" Portland" and our Governor and the fact the State is Liberal (not me btw) as a native Oregonian I'm disgusted by what has happened to my home state especially since Brown was in🤬 everything has gone to hell
Amen fellow Native!
Thank you for sharing Michael Randy great information God's Blessings on all your adventures
Always good to hear from you guys and thank you for the information on grizzly country.
Good stuff guys! Always enjoy hearing what you do in the woods during hunting season. Can't wait to see some of Marcus' video.
Great job guys one of your best shows 👍👍👍
Great show men! I appreciate it!
Thanks Randy, great info. Up here in Alberta we have a ton of griz and no hunting season. I run into one every year or two and some of the encounters are a bit scary. Every year we have at least one death [ two so far this year before hunting season ]. It appears the bears are becoming more aggressive over time. The local game wardens say if it is close shoot it. We need to reduce the population in a serious manner. One of these days a kid or close relative of an "important" person will be killed and we will have or Griz hunting season back again. Until then a lot of regular people will suffer.
I just came up from the States and hunted in Pincher Creek. Left the area after seeing a grizz 300 yards away right as the sun was setting. Nerve racking to have just a bow and no side arm.
Awesome stuff! 👌
Thanx
Years ago my dad told us when we were 15 or 16 and hunting in black bear country. If a bear chases you, climb a tree. Then in my 30’s we were observing a sow bear with two cubs feeding around a dumpster. A male bear came in and the sow signal her cubs to climb a tree. The male and female had a stand of growling at each other and the sow went up the same tree as the cubs and went past them!!! I sad man dad wanted us to climb a tree??? That’s just food on a stick!
Not ashamed to admit, but I’m sure glad we don’t have them down here in Arizona. I don’t think I’d ever be relaxed if I were in grizz country. They really need to open a season.
Give it a few years they will be there.
All my close grizzly encounters in WY have been during cow calling
I always carried a Glock 20 while Elk Hunting in Northern Idaho. 12 guage pump while hiking. Bear spray was 1st option if I couldn't walk away.
Randy thanks for the Pa. Notice making calls today. To voice my opinion
I was in a creek bottom in NW Montana last week playing lost calf with a couple of cows when I had that same revelation….. “I sound like a happy meal”…
Hunting solo I try to listen to that voice…. Backed out and shut up 🤷🏼♂️…. The elk remained safe
Have 7 acres - 1 acre each of trees, makeup my north, west and east borders. A bear laid 5ft off the trail in wait - my cat saved me from attack.
To be fair in Oregon there' are exemptions.
Specifically, you CAN do elk and bears as long as they belong to the same hunter's gender. Make sure to register your gender identification with the FWP BEFORE you do the ... thing..
It sounds like the Wilber law they tried in Colorado a year or two ago.
We need to be able to hunt them. They have no fear of man because we cant hunt them.
Randy in bear country i would carry at minimum a Marlin Guide gun 45-70 lever gun to hunt with. Just for the 5+1capacity. Preferably i think that I would carry a 12 gauge Typhone f12 shotgun with a 19 round banana mag, or a 30 round drum, loaded with alternate 00buckshot and rifled slug. A 460 Wetherby magnum loaded with 500 grain solid would be a third choice. Basically anything that will do to the grizzly what a 30-06 will do to a Wood Chuck 😁
Super Cool Show Gents, live in NC Idaho 58yo next month, meeting Gar is serious business I should be bear shit, for some reason my creator wills me to live a little longer, my Dad John Larry Johnson taught me a bit about being a man. Facing fear is never easy but some of the natural things we witnessed were beyond description.
The new one was up at Fairfield Mt
Yeah, saw that. The day after we filmed this clip.
What grain and type of bullet do you use in your 10mm for bear protection?
So you said you guys were hunting in heavy grizzly country in Idaho we’re you in the northern or Eastern part of Idaho
The Oregon law is like the law they have in Washington regarding beastility.
That poor guy, nightmare. As a non resident alien it's worse for us, we can't carry a handgun, just bear spray. But the most dangerous thing that happened to me in Montana was when I was taking a pee by a river, looking around for a grizzly a deadly mozzie bit me on a very sensitive part of my anatomy, true story!
What are you talking about a NON-RESIDENT ALIEN,, can't carry a handgun?? I don't know what you are talking about there!!! Help me understand!!
@@jimmyjunkmail I'm a UK hunter, and it's against your laws for us to carry a handgun....unless you know different?
I would love for it to be different!
Hey Randy I know this has nothing to do with this video but I’m in the market for a new range finder do you have one you would recommend thx
You know he uses Leupold !
Ah ya which model
You know all those problems are from those crazies that live in Portland! You found out when you tried to eat their pizza🤔😳 The problem is the crazies run the whole state and they are not kidding when they say keeping the state weird! Oregon used to be a normal state but all the democratic people from California moved here and US natives have suffered every since!
mdc has a $40,000,000 surplus and they can't help swan lake????
They had to kill a grizzly in Cody, Wyoming this week. Too use to people.
We’re going to have more of these is a sad reality. Not good.
Insanity in Oregon!
Not insanity at all. Completely predictable. You give anti hunters an inch, they will take that inch and 20 more.
Agreed! I am 4th generation Oregonian. I never could have imagined the mental illness that has crept into this state.
Portland... not the rest of Oregon
7th generation Oregonian and Portland has change a great state into a armpit except well outside Portland!
This is just my humble opinion. But as I see this there were a few mistakes made. Rudy should not have helped. Hard choice I know but he should have had the hunters call the Fish & Game and let them help them, I don't think they would have helped. The next option would have been too leave the deer to the wolves, bears or coyotes. I know what the regs say. You have to try your best to find the game you have wounded, but is a wounded game animal worth death or being injured by a bear. Rudy made some bad choice when he went to find that deer.
1: Not having a working hand gun.
2: Not having his bear spray on his belt or some place handy.
3: Relaying on someone how he might not know to back him up.
4: Not having a 12ga shotgun with double 00 shot shells.
I do feel Rudy was being a good man trying to help but sometimes you have to stop and give it a lot of thought before you go. Rudy I wish you a speedy recovery.
I hope is will give people a time stop and think about hunting in bear country.
If Swan lake cuts a bunch of timber down they should all be put in jail! I'm so sick of all the wildlife refuges cutting timber for waterfowl. That place has some giant whitetails. I understand the need to give waterfowl a refuge. This is getting way out of hand.
Sierra Madre is having to cancel events because of problems with bears coming down into the neighborhoods. Time to make me a bear sandwich but we gotta get rid of these lefty NaughtZs first.
The democrats are doing their best to do away with hunting and anything else that has to do with legal,law abiding Americans owning and using guns.
What is this fucking world coming too... I think I'm gonna shoot a cow elk and say it identifies as a bull. Luckily I won't but wondering if it would be an option especially in such a liberal state i live in