Camping Alone- historic bear scouting
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I have just shortly found your videos and I really love them. Everyday I try to see one of the older ones to get them all. Your performance of the old west frontier life together with your actual thinking is really great and highly enjoyable. Thankyou and go on!
Thanks! I’m really glad to hear that.
I enjoyed the hunting video. Keep them coming. Looking forward to the hunt with horses.
My kind of life....
Off the beaten path.
Fantastic production as always sir. What hat models is that. Looks fantastic and I love the whole living history. Thank you from the other side of the pond, Sweden 🇸🇪
Thank you! Glad you’re along!
Killing it with your content man, I love the whole living history thing.
Thank you
@@OverOnTheWildSide Where are do you usually film? For some reason I'm thinking Montana.
@@user-yy7tw9hv9n I’m in Washington State.
@@OverOnTheWildSide Gotcha, watch out for bigfoot. I bet ya those old hunters probably encountered it.
Fabulous enjoying it 👍🏴
The video I've been waiting for all day.
Great video Richard. The scenery was amazing.
I appreciate it Peter and yes, I’m fortunate to have such beauty so nearby.
I’ve used a blade of grass placed between my thumbs as a call. It makes a sound like a rabbit or fawn. Worked for calling coyotes and cats. Might work for your bear. Might even be period correct. Lol
You were in their area for sure, I’ve taken several bears and been in on probably 200 successful bear hunts with hounds. That’s a fine looking smoke pole you got there, me and my dad built me a Hawken 50 cal for me many years ago. The kits are not hard to put together, I’ve taken a few deer with it but never a bear. I use mouth calls like fawn distress is my favorite, I’ve had really good success with calling in black bears. Probably called in over ten in last three years. I’ve had many more sows with cubs come in then boar bear, sometimes a sow with cubs can be really hard to stop her, even standing up yelling at them sometimes still hard to change her mind. Big male bear seem to come in slower and really careful. My dad taught me to make the rabbit and fawn distress call by using hand and mouth or spilt a small stick put a leaf in the middle tie off the ends and then blow tru it, i now use mostly calls I’ve bought. But it’s very satisfying to call in Bear’s with a hand made call or just using your hands and mouth. I’ve not taken a bear in a few years now cause I’m not big on bear meat and would like to take one bigger then my best one, but at 620 pounds it’s going to be hard to beat. My buddy got one 686 right in front of me. But NC has the biggest black bears in the world on our coast with 700 pounds being taken each week nowadays. If you would like I can send you some drawings on making your own call from sticks and leaves or grass. After a few hours of practice you can become pretty good with these type calls. My grandpa was a well known bear hunter and took over 80 bears in his time. Mostly with hounds, out state does not allow electric calls on any animals other then coyotes, but calling in bears has become one of my favorite hunts each fall and can be one of the most exciting hunts I’ve ever done. Look up bears of NC coast and you will see some monsters of bears with world record of 899 pounds taken a few years ago, or check out Bear Crazy 1 tru 3 on you tube to see some huge black bears. Wishing my bud good hunting OVER ON THE WILD SIDE. 🐻🎥💯👍💪🏽
Keep up the videos and the good work!Be blessed brotha
Better luck next time, you’ll get the bear eventually.🐻
That hat's taking on some nice character
Yeah I do miss how flat the brim was though.
Great video, thanks 👍
What kind of rifle are you carrying? Also THANK YOU for hunting video!!
It’s a Lyman Great Plains in .54 caliber. A Hawken repro.
Also I meant to smoke my pipe this time, I’ll try to remember next time haha!
Just found the channel and subscribed.
Thanks
Moving through the woods quietly and unnoticed doesn’t mean to move through the woods without making any noise. Learn to sound like the woods when you move and you’ll blend in. Wind and wind direction is something to pay attention to. Use it to your advantage if possible. Just some things my granddaddy taught me when I was young. Good luck
I wondered about the noise… how would they be able to tell a difference between a deer and a human? If you have any more info on that I’m open to hearing it.
@@OverOnTheWildSide I believe plenty of, if not all hunts are more about finding nature's rhythm and moving with it Ie speed, number of steps at a time, where you're walking, and not so much how quiet you move everywhere. There is a good video by hill people gear somewhere on UA-cam about natural cadence or pace that does a better job describing what I mean. That's my 2 cents anyway
That makes a ton of sense. I didn’t think of it but the author of that bear hunting book has a story about calling a bear by first using a two types of elk calls. The bear paid them no mind. In other words, elk were supposedly nearby and he didn’t care. So if a person gets into that rhythm the sounds shouldn’t raise alarms.
people either bait or hound for bear
so walked up you have to know them really well and apply filters
like how hot its been you can guarentee theyr by water drinking a lot and cooling off
find the habitat in the area that is their food source and their bedding
all the bears around me live around swamps... if theres mosquitos ur in the right place!
Good info thank you. I think the berries are ripe now so when I finally get back up there I may find them around there. There’s water nearby as well.
Dude you’re western aesthetic is like no other.
Thanks! I do know a few guys though who surpass me.
Another top post thanks
I love your videos may I ask what kind of long gun you are using?
Yes I have a Lyman Great Plains rifle that I bought a .54 cal barrel for a couple years ago. Up from .50.
@@OverOnTheWildSide thank you! I really like it and have been on the verge of purchasing a muzzleloading firearm. So maybe I’ll just got ahead and scoop one up .
They’re an awesome weapon to have.
Excellent 👍
Been watching 1883. I swear they stole your hat style. (tongue in cheek) 🤠
I wish they’d steal more and be more historical in that show…
@@OverOnTheWildSide I agree. I wonder why go from Tennessee to Fort Worth to start instead of St Joseph, MO? 🤷♂️
Anyway…..
Today nothing I have to offer is historical, but it isn't electronic either. Calls are historically correct, and even historically correct calls. Thankfully men like Larry D. Jones, and Wayne Carlton has made it easier, and no tube is necessary. Invest into inside mouth diaphragm Elk calls, don't worry about the Turkey call as they tend to be more complicated and delicate. Take the home and practice. It's of course a great elk call, but with practice it is also a great deer, Turkey, and predator call. I can make dying and scared rabbit calls distressed fawn calls, and a variety of coyotes sounds. All great for use as one aspect of multiple bear hunting techniques. There not an elk sound I can't make with a combination of call and using what I call the kazoo effect. To imitate the growl of the an elk bugle humm. The deeper you humm as you raise the pitch the growler it sounds. Turkey sounds in me has only one limit. I never been able to replicate a gobble. Putts, clucks, purrs, whines, and yelps are achievable.
Mountain man
Hungry hunter is a better hunter imo. What's the baiting laws in your area? Just curious
I had to look it up, baiting isn’t allowed here I guess.
@@OverOnTheWildSide certain states have different rules. They love doughnuts
Yeah we can’t use hounds here either, that’s the one I’m most upset about.
@@OverOnTheWildSide I can't blame ya there. Check out Texas boar hunting . Certain states pay you per hog kill
Great video
Thanks
A hunting video from someone that's not on a hunting channel nowadays is great especially the way your doing it. I've been bear hunting for about 30 years in mn worked doing guided hunts also. Over here in mn we bait them just because the woods is so dense. I've used calls and scents some states have laws against scents I guess. but scents can work fairly well. calls do work if there in the close area to you!
That’s interesting thanks. My woods are pretty dense, when I saw to watch those meadows I really couldn’t see much. The rest of the areas I walked were more dense. I had imagined I’d find recent activity and then wait around that area for sounds but I don’t know if that’s a good strategy. It’d be difficult to stalk one with how dry it is.
@@OverOnTheWildSide I know bears move many miles a day it's food sources that bring them back regulary to an area especially this time a year before winter if you can find what there eating they will be back. And a bear shits alot in there bedroom. In my area it's berries, acorns, or in rotten clear cuts they dig up old logs, I've never left the state of mn so I really wonder what there eating in your area on a daily bases. And in mn they do love the rivers and crick bottoms for travel. And the swamps is were they go for cover. I love bear meat most of the meat I live off is bear and venison. I know mn gets a bad rap because of the south part of Minneapolis but up north in the woods it completely different alot of the lifelong residence live a diffrent lifestyle.
Very interesting, I’ve not been to MN and have wondered what it’s like.
I’m not sure what the bears eat most right now when there’s no berries of any sort.
In lower elevations there’s rose hips now on the wild roses but up where I go the berries aren’t ripe yet.
@@OverOnTheWildSide mn has lots of lakes the land of 10,000 lakes it's called. I don't live all that far from the headwaters of the Mississippi were it starts you can actually jump across it. In what we call the arrow head region North East mn is very wooded mixed timber . this time of year you can't see more than 5 10 yards around you! Most of my bear I kill are within 20 yards we put up a stand nock out a opening to the bait. Alot of bears walk right under you in the stand. And in a blind on the ground is exiting . I have had some encounters with bears I had one charge me once it got within about 2 to 3 yards from me unlucky bear! But I have always wondered what it's like outwest my dad would talk about it all the time when he was alive he told me if I ever have a chance to go I should. I just have never had that chance. In mn during winter we spear northern pike in a dark house on frozen lake 4 foot by 4 foot hole in the house northerns swim in to are decoys and just spear them. If you ever want to try that hit me up. We just opened it up a few years ago to people out of state.
Man I’d love to see that part of MN and take part in anything that’s hunting/fishing related. I really love experiencing and learning about what’s normal to a region but completely foreign to other parts of the US.