Leaving a radio on a big game carcase overnight?

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I think I read somewhere once of hunters leaving a battery powered radio near a big game carcase if they can't get it out that night. I'm solo hunting for moose and elk this year and am afraid of loosing most or all of a carcase to bears. If I down a moose, even 1 hr before dark, it's going to be a race to get as much as I can out before dark. Not a fan of carrying meat around by myself in the dark in Griz country.
I know guys will take a leak near a carcase, but anyone ever tried leaving a battery powered radio on? Any ideas about genres of music that bears don't like? Maybe CBC?
 
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migrant hunter said:
I think I read somewhere once of hunters leaving a battery powered radio near a big game carcase if they can't get it out that night. I'm solo hunting for moose and elk this year and am afraid of loosing most or all of a carcase to bears. If I down a moose, even 1 hr before dark, it's going to be a race to get as much as I can out before dark. Not a fan of carrying meat around by myself in the dark in Griz country.
I know guys will take a leak near a carcase, but anyone ever tried leaving a battery powered radio on? Any ideas about genres of music that bears don't like? Maybe CBC?
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CBC will spoil the meat. :)
 
I would also leave a game cam set up to watch the grizzlies break dancing to your rap music, AFTER dinner.

Seriously, I have hunted for some time in paces where there are wolves, coyotes, big cats and black and grizzly bear. Probably the occasional wolverine too.

In my humble experience if you move the animal away from the gut pile as far as is feasible( 30 to 50m) and surround the animal with a lot of human scent (such as spit and piss) most critters will leave it alone overnight.

If a grizzly or wolfpack find it nothing will deter them. Wolves are very cautious, but also very smart. Mots of the others will initially feed on the easy pickings of the gut pile and leave your carcass alone.

I once found a deer two days after I shot it. Ravens, martens ... had eaten lips and face and entrails; the hind quarters were mostly fine, not even broken the skin.
Temperature was cold and the meat was good. Some luck helps.
 
Another good one is take you inner clothes (T shirt) and hang it over the meat. Its worked in the past. I just arrowed a 6X6 Elk Sept 9th and went back early AM because I stuck it at 7PM and was solo. It was a huge animal! Butcher said 473lbs of meat.
I went back in the morning with a friend that had a chainsaw. We cut a bit of a trail and pulled two halves out with my quad. Couldn't beleive the size, and I have arrowed 5 moose in my life. Solo is a different ball game! Take care, be safe. No one to help you!
 
Nothing will keep a really determined bear away from a kill except a bullet sometimes. We've tried wrapping our hanging game with tarps, shirts, buddy's longjohns you name it and a couple blackies wouldn't leave it alone. Even after we hung his buddy from the pole the other bear kept coming back. So no I don't think a radio will work unless its "hip-hop".
 
Ive had time where bears did not care about piss fences, clothes and times where the meat was fine and they may have work Was it the piss, clothes or just no bears around? Who knows. Pure luck of the draw IMO.

 
longbranch* said:
Nothing will keep a really determined bear away from a kill except a bullet sometimes. We've tried wrapping our hanging game with tarps, shirts, buddy's longjohns you name it and a couple blackies wouldn't leave it alone. Even after we hung his buddy from the pole the other bear kept coming back. So no I don't think a radio will work unless its "hip-hop".
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That would attract black bears no?
 
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