****OFFICIAL****2024 SPRING BEAR THREAD

[cgasner1]

I got the neck roasts cleaned out in this one. It appears to have a little room there. I prefer my sausage in the 8-9” varieties

 

[Drake4]

Will send a tooth to Matson’s lab for accuracy but any guesses? I know of a couple very old sows that were in the 20 range that friends shot but this is a boar and I’m guessing the oldest bear I’ve ever taken.

I had a few random teeth/ages pop up last year on my FWP page. Wish they had the 10 year gap filled in because I didn't think this was my oldest. I doubt it was aged by Matson's but they came back w/ 21 years old on my last boar. No clue if that's accurate.
You know the spot.

 

[FREAK]

You just never know where you’ll turn one up. I like to cruise the alleys of big sky with the suppressed 6.5. No Kuiu or the line cooks might catch on.
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I haven’t seen Fred around town for a couple days. It all makes sense now

Nice bear Kurt!

 

[daltrix99]

Connected on a nice boar a couple of days ago. Not a giant but a good healthy size with a fantastic coat. He has a decent head on him and the most fat I've ever seen on a spring bear (win!). Pack weighed in at exactly 100lbs (including rifle) - my heaviest bear load. This was a classic cross-canyon bear hunt, which meant a super fun straight down and straight up to retrieve and then pack out. There was nothing remotely flat to cut him up on, we had to anchor to bushes and logs so as not to slide while working. FYI he was cruising hard for flowers on S-facing hillsides, it's game on!

 

[Valley1320]

Awesome! Great job there @daltrix99

 

[David Gough]

Hunted for three days in south central Idaho. Saw 1,000+ elk, some deer, one cow moose, zero ticks, and zero bears.

Hunted low and high. All looked good. Going to need a new spring bear spot.

 

[jejack26]

Night before the snow hit, can't get back up to look for him, 2 feet in the flat

 

[KG92]

Hunted for three days in south central Idaho. Saw 1,000+ elk, some deer, one cow moose, zero ticks, and zero bears.

Hunted low and high. All looked good. Going to need a new spring bear spot.

same, probably just too early for the area, or at least that’s my unofficial diagnosis for my hunt.

 

[David Gough]

same, probably just too early for the area, or at least that’s my unofficial diagnosis for my hunt.

When I can't find a tick spring bear hunting I'm doing it wrong.

 

[Falcon75]

Connected on a nice boar a couple of days ago. Not a giant but a good healthy size with a fantastic coat.

Great job what date and rough location and elevation. You might get to start next year's official bear thread mid march so we can have 8 pages before a bear gets taken if got it before the photo shop bear. The meat pic is more convincing on that one but no story no bear.

 

[Sasquatchewan]

When I can't find a tick spring bear hunting I'm doing it wrong.

I don't need to find them, they find me.

I just look at grass and get phantom tick syndrome.

 

[David Gough]

I don't need to find them, they find me.

I just look at grass and get phantom tick syndrome.

That's how it has worked on every prior bear hunt I've ever been on. I neurotically checked myself 1,967 times a day and found nothing. Thought I may had been dreaming.

 

[Sask hunter]

Dandelions are popping up here so baits will slow down for about a week. Three small blacks tonight. Time to get caught up on house work keep the baits going and wait for the rut now