Looking for tips on calling....

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Ryan2009

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Ok so say you are out hiking/glassing for archery bears in the spring. You have just spotted a bear feeding on grass on a hillside across the canyon from your position. Do you sit down right where you are on the opposite ridge and attempt to call that bear across the canyon and hopefully have him go down in the canyon and then up your hillside to your position??? Or would you go down in the canyon and attempt to call the bear down into the canyon??? Or try to sneak around and get up on the ridge above him and call him uphill to you??? Any tips or input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
 
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Most predators will move down hill easier than up kinda like you or I. I have had many coyotes come up hill, no hard fast rules with predators as soon as your sure what theyll do ,they wont.
 
I would either go with staying where you were, especially if it was a good vantage point with good views, or moving around and above.

I don't think calling from below is normally a good option. Even if the winds seem right where you are standing in the bottom of the canyon, chances are, they are swirling above you and scent is moving up the canyon. Except on rare ocassions, scent is moving up hill...
 
Yeah you have a good point there win22-250. But I don't mind packing a bear out of a canyon. Just would really like to call one in and take it with my bow.
 
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But don't Bears have shorter front legs than back legs??? So when they try to run downhill they tend to barrel roll???

My freind that is funny, I laugh everytime I hear that, if you have ever seen a bear running down a hill or mountian they go 100 miles an hour just fine. at least they can out run a good pack of hounds on their worst day. Never have I seen one barrel over.
 
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Ok so say you are out hiking/glassing for archery bears in the spring. You have just spotted a bear feeding on grass on a hillside across the canyon from your position. Do you sit down right where you are on the opposite ridge and attempt to call that bear across the canyon and hopefully have him go down in the canyon and then up your hillside to your position??? Or would you go down in the canyon and attempt to call the bear down into the canyon??? Or try to sneak around and get up on the ridge above him and call him uphill to you??? Any tips or input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance



Bears are alot different animals than any other animal. Bears are not so curios like a bobcat and a coyote,kind of the difference between a whitetail and a angus cow. A bear is in his own little world and not much shakes him up or gathers his intrrest.
I have been running bear all my life and even with hounds a bear does what he wants to do, if a bear doesn't want to go up a tree. He wont. I dont care how many hounds or how much grit they have he wont.They are at the top of the food chain and they are like the big bully at school, they do what they want and there is no rhime or reason.
You will have just as good of chance calling him from where you see him as you will from anywhere else because if he is going to come he will come but if he is not he wont no matter where you are.
I dont think you are getting the responce you would like because not many people call bears, Most bear hunting is done with either hounds or Bait stations. In Alaska they spot and stock but they are mostly doing it over a good food source. You are taking on a very hard task that not many have been successful doing , not imposible but surely not the most successful way of hunting bear.
If Arizona doesn't have spring hound hunting and has no baiting, I would call the game department and ask them what is the success rate in thier spring hunts and ask them what most hunters are doing. I would bet most of it is just dumb luck
 
I had always run bears with dogs,until MN outlawed dogs. we had to start guiding hunters over bait,I have been a caller for over 20 years and have only called 2 bears, both were ,more or less, by accident. Devin is right,you are "bitin into a big bone" it can be done, but you are in for a certain amount of discouragement in the process. As for bears runnin down hill, just watch one that has 8 dogs on his hind end, they can "haul the mail" uphill or down.
Your best bet when you spot a bear, is to stay put,and try to call it in, watch what he is doin and react accordinly. There are no "rules" for any calling, and bears will do whatever they want, with no reason to it.
 
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