A few pics while looking for bears

wolf19534 said:
beautiful pics but the first thing i noticed were the spent shotgun shells all over the place in pic #1. I couldn't help but think that is it not our duty as hunters and outdoorsmen to not leave a footprint or any hint that we may have once been there, much less leaving spent shells and debris..???
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Saw that too but wondered more about what the person who left them was shooting at up there with a shotgun?
 
Beautiful. I hear the bears are starting to come out and about around there already. Did you see any sign? How's the approach road? I want to take my 10-year old with me but from what I hear, even your vehicle is not safe there!
 
ceriksson said:
Looks familiar! where roughly was that?

Though I guess the logging roads On Van Isle and lower mainland all tend to look the same after a while too
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Looks like he isn't going to be very precise, as if anyone is going to go there when there was no sign of bears.
In the second picture, those big evergreens are hemlock trees. That places it in the southern half, or third, of BC.
The big cedar stump with the axe cuts in it, which once held a springboard, to stand on while the tree was cut down by two men and a crosscut saw, is also from southerly BC, since he says it is on the mainland.
This type of old time use of springboards was common in the Shuswap Lake, Adams Lake areas, as well as upper Seymour River area.
The lack of much snow probably rules out upper Seymour.
I can tell him it may be a good area for photography, but very poor for early spring bear hunting. When black bears come out of hibrenation, they stuff themselves for a few days with green growth of some type. They have one species in paricular, that they go for in the spring and never miss a patch of it, but I am not going to tell you guys about their favourite food.
In the pictures there is not one blade of green growth that I can see!
Completely wrong area for early spring bear hunting.
 
wolf19534 said:
beautiful pics but the first thing i noticed were the spent shotgun shells all over the place in pic #1.
I couldn't help but think that is it not our duty as hunters and outdoorsmen to not leave a footprint or any hint that we may have once been there, much less leaving spent shells and debris..???
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I was gonna ask if he did his "shooters-duty" good deed and picked them up?

They were the 1st things I noticed...

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H4831 said:
Looks like he isn't going to be very precise, as if anyone is going to go there when there was no sign of bears.
In the second picture, those big evergreens are hemlock trees. That places it in the southern half, or third, of BC.
The big cedar stump with the axe cuts in it, which once held a springboard, to stand on while the tree was cut down by two men and a crosscut saw, is also from southerly BC, since he says it is on the mainland.
This type of old time use of springboards was common in the Shuswap Lake, Adams Lake areas, as well as upper Seymour River area.
The lack of much snow probably rules out upper Seymour.
I can tell him it may be a good area for photography, but very poor for early spring bear hunting. When black bears come out of hibrenation, they stuff themselves for a few days with green growth of some type. They have one species in paricular, that they go for in the spring and never miss a patch of it, but I am not going to tell you guys about their favourite food.
In the pictures there is not one blade of green growth that I can see!
Completely wrong area for early spring bear hunting.
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Sorry H4831, in post 11 it says where it is. If your a local you would now the two areas I referenced.
 
and john missed 3 shells. I know the area but those shells arent mine. I know the bears are out, I have a pic of a nice chocolate one in the back of a truck in my driveway. Live though. been around quite often at night.
 
Anywhere in the bush out here you can find empty shells. Hunters like to blame quadders, dirtbikers, and 4wheelers. Hippies just blame "rednecks." Realistically, it's loosers, no matter which user group you associate them with. I pick up garbage in the bush, and dispose of it. I make sure new shooters learn to clean up.

Oh yeah, nice pics, looks like a good day.
 
H4831 said:
I can tell him it may be a good area for photography, but very poor for early spring bear hunting. When black bears come out of hibrenation, they stuff themselves for a few days with green growth of some type. They have one species in paricular, that they go for in the spring and never miss a patch of it, but I am not going to tell you guys about their favourite food.
In the pictures there is not one blade of green growth that I can see!
Completely wrong area for early spring bear hunting.
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lol. whatever. looks great to me. bad bear country? just like my "bad goat country" pictures? lol
 
Jay T said:
nice terrrain there, Is the the redhead back pack from Basspro? My son and I have the same pack. His is for school and mine is for the same use you use yours for. Great little day pack!
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Yeah i'd say it is the Red Head from Bass Pro. Bought the exact same one from there for $19.95 for my wife.
 
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