keeping bears out of a hunt camp

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22savage

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no matter what i try, every year a bear will get into my hunting camp.

one year he tore the door apart and then proceeded to shred everything inside, including the mattresses. So i figured i'd put bars on my door and chain link fence over the windows.

so this year he didn't get in through the door. and he didn't get in through the windows either, no sir. this year he went clean through the wall...

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the inside...

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after a little cleanup.. good as new. almost.

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so how do you guys keep bears out of your camps?
 
I've heard of
sheets of plywood with lots of nails through it, pointy side up, underneath the doors and windows.

But this one ate through a wall so maybe you could dig yourself a moat and fill it with flaming gasoline.
 
Hummm. That's just annoying. Wrap the whole thing in chainlink fencing ??? Doubt even that would stop them. If they want in, they're going to get in. You have to make them not want to go in. It's a longshot, but maybe go by your local vet/pet groomer and ask for a bag of dog fur????......that is if the offending bear has even seen a dog. Just throwing out ideas here. :confused:
 
Are you sure it was a bear? Sealhunter was drinking again last night. Doesn't he enter his home through the wall?
 
Nails angled up on a 45 degree angle & sticking out 2-3 inches, about 3-4 feet high from the base all the way around your cabin...
Or like we do it... Clean the he77 out of it it with bleach and water & leave no traces of food or booze around (inside & out) when we close up...
Those lousy pigs want in for a reason... And I'll bet their nose led them there...
 
Mothballs.

Put them by the door and the windows.

Seems to work to protect cabins from the grizzlies in northern BC, pretty good.

Bears want in cause they smell food, I guess the mothballs screw with thier sense of smell.

The downside is anything but canned goods is going to have a slight mothball flavour.:)
 
The Sand Man said:
Electric Fence. Just wire up a Car battery and maybe some solar panels to recharge. Don't forget to shut it off before taking it off.

Cheers,
Sand
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That's what I would look at. A small solar charger on a light electric fence could be left unattended for the summer, and likely do the trick well enough.

The local bears would get the point soon enough, and you could likely tear it down each fall before winter.
 
Panman said:
That's what I would look at. A small solar charger on a light electric fence could be left unattended for the summer, and likely do the trick well enough.

The local bears would get the point soon enough, and you could likely tear it down each fall before winter.
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an electric fence might work. i've got a large cat battery and solar panels at camp. the only thing is that i would have to leave it up all winter, as it seems as though the bears like to hit the cabin in the spring. the cabin is basicly impossible to get to during april and may cause theres not enough snow for ski doo but too much for quad. and its too far to walk.
 
camping model


http://www.udap.com/bearshock.htm



http://www.electrobearguard.com/

One year at Moose camp we rigged a deep-cycle battery to an inverter, then a Motion sensor. Motion sensor would activate a fire exit strobe, and couple other lights on a blinker and turn on a radio.

It worked but only as long as the battery would last. Not a long term thing only good for 1 day maybe.
 
Our local dump put up a industrial power electric fence. This is not your average "keep the cows in" type of electric fence. It is 5 or 6 feet high with multiple strands of electrified wire in it and it runs off the hydro feed. The guy who was running the dump said it was keeping some bears out, but a few were still getting in. YMMV

The only way to keep them out is to get rid of whatever is attracting them. They must smell food or something.
 
An electric fence will work, so will nails driven through plywood laid on the ground in front of doorways and windows. IMHO, shooting the bear will reduce the likelihood of a repeat problem. Cabin robbers have at some point in their lives been rewarded for their efforts, and because they cannot be re-educated, the behavior will continue until they are killed.
 
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