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re: Flashlight and Black Bears
Posted on 11/20/18 at 6:06 pm to jimmyjohn19
Posted on 11/20/18 at 6:06 pm to jimmyjohn19
If I can see at all I try not to use a light, when it is so dark that I can not see my path I will and do not believe it bothers deer, but I usually go in the woods a little sooner than most to let things settle down a bit before light.
HOWEVER, I will not go in the woods without a light when cicadas are coming out of the ground.
Worth reading if you are not aware of this
"The density can be pretty tremendous - a dozen or more copperheads around the base of a single oak tree,"
"I caught 33 (copperheads) the first night," Swanson said.
All were captured in about 90 minutes. Two nights later, he caught another 27 for a total of 59 copperheads from a 1.5-acre lawn."
HOWEVER, I will not go in the woods without a light when cicadas are coming out of the ground.
Worth reading if you are not aware of this
"The density can be pretty tremendous - a dozen or more copperheads around the base of a single oak tree,"
"I caught 33 (copperheads) the first night," Swanson said.
All were captured in about 90 minutes. Two nights later, he caught another 27 for a total of 59 copperheads from a 1.5-acre lawn."
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Posted on 11/20/18 at 6:27 pm to TimeOutdoors
Don’t post stuff like that man, seriously now I am going to be seeing this damn things everyy
Posted on 11/21/18 at 3:53 am to soileau123
Last year, a large bear walked right by my stand. I spoke to him in rude terms but quietly as there were deer in sight several hundred yards away. In all past encounters with bears and there have been plenty, here near Tensas River NWR, when the bears are aware of me they run away.
This one walked about 25 yards away, turned and started popping his jaws at me.
He made a very small detour around the stand, never out of sight looking at me and came back out in the shooting lane.
Did not seem afraid at all.
Different critter there!
ETA: someone mentioned being charged and possibly encountering a sow with cubs.
I have said for years that if someone gets hurt it will be because they got too close to cubs and mom protected them.I have come up on that situation twice in the last few years. Both times the sow showed defensive behavior but did not charge, probably because I wasn’t close enough. One of those times I was on an ATV and she didn’t back down. But it was clear she was NOT happy I was there. The cubs scooted up a big oak tree like cat squirrels,
I just eased out of there.
This one walked about 25 yards away, turned and started popping his jaws at me.
He made a very small detour around the stand, never out of sight looking at me and came back out in the shooting lane.
Did not seem afraid at all.
Different critter there!
ETA: someone mentioned being charged and possibly encountering a sow with cubs.
I have said for years that if someone gets hurt it will be because they got too close to cubs and mom protected them.I have come up on that situation twice in the last few years. Both times the sow showed defensive behavior but did not charge, probably because I wasn’t close enough. One of those times I was on an ATV and she didn’t back down. But it was clear she was NOT happy I was there. The cubs scooted up a big oak tree like cat squirrels,
I just eased out of there.
This post was edited on 11/21/18 at 4:03 am
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