Differences in calling black bears vs coyotes

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Newpond0

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I am trying to get a black bear for the freezer, that’s why I took up calling. Coyotes are just practice for me to get better and calling and hunting in general. Some obvious differences would be it’s pointless to setup on a bend in a trail trying to shoot coyotes coming around the corner head on if I’m practicing for bears because I’m not gonna be doing that to a bear. The one bear I called in I believe took an extremely wide circle on me behind cover and winded me after seeing him charge down the mountain to lightning Jack a few hundred yards in the distance.

Any other major differences you guys care to share?

-My sets are 1 hour long and I wait another 20 minutes quiet and still after turning off the call.

-Another example cub distress may be a great call during spring bear mating season although I didn’t have any luck with it last year.

-I have also read territorial sounds may not work especially if there’s a lot of food around as bears supposedly aren’t territorial so much.

-Another would be follow the rype food sources available at the time and call nearby as they are always on the move eating.
 
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Have you searched the forum for posts by Bearmanric? He's not around here much any more, but historically he had a lot to say about calling black bears.
 
DesertRam said:
Have you searched the forum for posts by Bearmanric? He's not around here much any more, but historically he had a lot to say about calling black bears.
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Yes I did. I went thru his messages thru his profile. Same with Okanogan and Redfrog. Some great bear hunters used to be here. Not all the messages appear though, I think just 20 pages for some reason. Forum changeover didn’t save everything?

Edit: I was tempted to copy and paste a bunch of their stuff into 1 big thread. There’s a lot of old threads with 1-3 really good posts in them, but nothing like the 1 big thread in calling in the east with Jimmy in KY and Rich Cronk (calling tactics and sounds?)

Maybe I will start a new all encompassing calling bears thread and do some copy and pasting
 
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The major difference for me is I call coyotes on purpose. The one and only black bear I've called was on accident while trying to call coyotes.

- DAA
 
Not a bear hunter but did go bear hunting once. A bear had been raising havoc at a friend's resort in N. MN and I was asked to shoot it. I spent a week watching the dump pit morning and night, never saw the bear or fired a shot. I was successful, the bear never came back. Caught a lot of walleyes and northerns during the day, fun week.

There was a pretty interesting CD someone put out on bear calling, Wayne Carlton, "They Come to Eat".

Bearmanric, used to put on bear calling seminars. I know at least one was recorded, I don't know if the .recording still exists, it was 2011 at Cabela's in Lacey, WA.
 
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Not a bear hunter but did go bear hunting once. A bear had been raising havoc at a friend's resort in N. MN and I was asked to shoot it. I spent a week watching the dump pit morning and night, never saw the bear or fired a shot. I was successful, the bear never came back. Caught a lot of walleyes and northerns during the day, fun week.

There was a pretty interesting CD someone put out on bear calling, Wayne Carlton, "They Come to Eat".

Bearmanric, used to put on bear calling seminars. I know at least one was recorded, I don't know if the .recording still exists, it was 2011 at Cabela's in Lacey, WA.
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I would love to hear bearmanrics recording and am going to try find it! I also posted the Wayne Carlton dvd in the all encompassing calling bears thread in the lions, bear and houndsmen section. Wayne posted it himself on his YouTube channel
 
I found a piece of that seminar. If anyone has the full and you think bearmanric would be ok with posting it please post



Also can a mod please move this thread to the lions, bears, and houndsmen section? At the time I didn’t realize that’s where the calling bears stuff belongs not in the big game section
 
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