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Bears & Deer

Unread postby backstraps » Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:56 am

You guys that are in areas that include bear locally.....

Have the bear impacted your deer population in any negative ways?

We have giant black bear and the more bear #'s increase the fewer deer we're seeing

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Re: Bears & Deer

Unread postby headgear » Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:28 am

I think the bears pick up a few fawns every year but they aren't much of a threat to an adult deer unless injured. Someone on the site posted a cool game cam pic of a beer and a buck in the same photo, the deer didn't seem worried and the bear didn't look interested in running the buck down.
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Re: Bears & Deer

Unread postby dan » Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:34 am

They will eat fawns...
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Re: Bears & Deer

Unread postby backstraps » Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:29 pm

We did notice the fawn recruitment was way down this year. The thing that had me more concerned than that was the fact we are not seeing the deer density that we were seeing a couple years ago...BEFORE all these bears started invading us.

These things are getting so big around me they dont look real! I know you guys have some monster Black Bears up your way... we have had several checked in between 600-650lbs. I think I heard someone say something about a bear this year with a 22 7/8" skull

At any rate, I didnt know if the presense of black bears actually moved deer to other properties without bear...etc


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