Fresh Tracks On My Favorite Hunting Spot

[ghost recon]

Two sets, looks like a female with cub. My hand is pictured by the cub print. The larger bear track is 3 inches longer and around three inches wider. The tracks look pretty fresh imo. I heard a loud noise from the woods today, could of been a bear, I didn't investigate though. Good sized buck track to the left in that last pic. It's funny how bears walk pidgeon toed almost lopsided.

[kirby]

I hope you carry a weapon.

[kansas]

Ghost recon, I agree with Kirby - I'd carry a weapon or would at least have an artifact hunting partner - a partner that can not run as fast as you. I have no worries artifact hunting alone here in Kansas - no bears, very few cougars. I run into coyotes often, but they show no interest in me.

Steve
Kansas

[ghost recon]

I've more than likely got at least a 1911 on me when I'm out in the wilderness. 45 hps would stop a bear if you had time to fire a few. I'd probably shoot a warning shot before taking dead aim because I like black bears. I've been around them all my life and they are generally scared of humans from my experience. Mother with cub is an entirely different situation and they can and do get aggressive. Honestly I'm more concerned with aggressive wild dogs than bears.

[Scotto]

Originally Posted by ghost recon

Honestly I'm more concerned with aggressive wild dogs than bears.

Yeah me too, and a big boar hog as well. The mountain lions are getting a lot thicker here, but the bears seem to stay in the woods and I'm not too worried about them.

But I've got my .45 on my hip every single time I'm out.

[silver lake]

Darn guys you have some serious critters out there!

[joshuaream]

Those weren't the tracks I was expecting when I opened this post.

[Flyjunkie]

Originally Posted by joshuaream

Those weren't the tracks I was expecting when I opened this post.

I was thinking the same thing when i opened this thread... I was expecting photos of Boot prints allover the place from some Arse who, as we say in Flyfishing, was "poaching your Honeyhole"... Glad it was not that type of critter, but that it was bears "scouting your Honeyhole".....

[ghost recon]

Yep, I'd rather see deer, bear, cougar, sasquatch, t-rex tracks than human footprints...seriously. Thanks guys.

[ghost recon]

Originally Posted by Scotto

Yeah me too, and a big boar hog as well. The mountain lions are getting a lot thicker here, but the bears seem to stay in the woods and I'm not too worried about them.

But I've got my .45 on my hip every single time I'm out.

Always better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it imo. I'm glad the wild hogs aren't in these parts they are becoming a menace in alot of areas.