Leaving a radio on a big game carcase overnight?

Have used a radio to screw up black bears hitting a bait station only at night.Then hunted it in the AM and killed the bear.Harold
 
Lost one several years back.

Left my very smelly t-shirt on the deer after dragging it about 20 feet from the guts. Went back next morning and there was nothing left but the blood smears.

You take your chances, sometimes your luck runs out.
 
kc34 said:
Toss a sweaty shirt or sweater on the meat cache and hope for the best.
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My dad was an old timer hunter and First Nations guys taught him to put a shirt on the meat to keep the smell of man about the kill. It was supposed to keep away wolves .... I can't speak to the science, but we never had trouble with wolves.... they tend to be cautious.

Bears can be more aggressive .... I'm not sure it would deter them. But hanging the meat would help .... and little branches in the cavity after gutting to keep out the birds.

As far as music ..... I'd go for talk radio instead ..... nothing says human like voices.
 
Bears are actually very curious. And from a distance some music may even sound like dying game. I don't think that a radio will work very well. May even bring attention to the kill site faster. But just my opinion. I have used Pine Sol in a spray bottle and sprayed the surrounding vegetation around where we were hanging meat from the pole. Never had a problem with predation on the meat. But then could have been just coincidence. I will pee around the area of my camps and meat poles to claim it as well. Again never an issue but no concrete definitive that that helped. . But sometime subtle can be better.
 
Betty-Lou said:
Personally, I think it's a matter of whether a predator happens to be nearby at the time that is the determining factor, more so than anything else.
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This: if hungry once they realize it's only old human scent with no visual / audible threat (not just background noise) they will approach.

Lot's of vacant cabins get broken into by bears here and those spots are laden with human scent.
Lots of occupied cabins are approached by bears here: human scent and even the noise from a running generator don't keep them at bay.
Appetite overrides all other things at this time of year especially! It's purely the luck of the draw.

Without knowing your setup / situation would spending the night be an option?
 
This is a decent idea. I'd recommend putting on some Rush Limbaugh - the conservative bears will get really excited, passionate, and full of rage against the drive-by media; the liberal bears will freak out and probably run away yelling about fake news.
 
Hung my moose quarters at home in a picnic tent once. Neighbour's dog dove right through the screen and chowed down on the tenderloin.

Luck of the draw.
 
We had to leave a moose overnight one time when we had seen and heard wolves nearby the same day. We did our best to pi$$ around the kill ( two guys aren't dragging a big bull moose) and left for our camp about a half mile away. Late that evening we heard the wolves find the moose, they sure sounded excited and we figured we were done, cut tag and no moose. In the morning we found their tracks all around our guard perimeter but our moose was untouched. We used this system many times after this, never for more than one night, it never failed us. Prior to this we had lost meat to a black bear one time and over half a moose to a grizzly family once. Tried a sweaty T shirt a couple of times when we were dry, it worked too. Like many have said, no guarantees but it's always within your capability and it's worth a shot ( pun intended).
 
Well wolves will piss around a moose kill..maybe they will 'honour' your human piss circle around the kill....

I am not convinced that hanging a sweaty t shirt around a kill in bear country is a particularly clever idea....how do you know the bear brave enough to chow down on your kill wont start to associate human scent to a fine (and easy) meal??!

I recall reading years ago about an island in the pacific northwest that was well regarded for its plentiful game...and brown bears... eventually the bears started to treat the sound of a rifle shot like a 'dinner bell'...and they didnt develop a particular concern over the 'human' hunters when they arrived at the location of the kill..it reportedly became quite a hazard for hunters.
 
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I recall reading years ago about an island in the pacific northwest that was well regarded for its plentiful game...and brown bears... eventually the bears started to treat the sound of a rifle shot like a 'dinner bell'...and they didnt develop a particular concern over the 'human' hunters when they arrived at the location of the kill..it reportedly became quite a hazard for hunters.
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This doesn't surprise me actually, every time I'm in the woods dropping dead standing trees for fire wood there are always deer snooping around for the lichen on the branches. The sound of the saw running seems to bring them in.
 
AP said:
I recall reading years ago about an island in the pacific northwest that was well regarded for its plentiful game...and brown bears... eventually the bears started to treat the sound of a rifle shot like a 'dinner bell'...and they didnt develop a particular concern over the 'human' hunters when they arrived at the location of the kill..it reportedly became quite a hazard for hunters.
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There are many places in B.C. where the sound of shots attract bears looking for a gut pile.

Wolves are more shy.
 
There are radio stations in hunting country? All kidding aside Grizzlies won't care, they routinely check out our camps at night with us in them, just two weeks ago one was thirty yards from the tent. We piss around camp, etc, doesn't matter if they want it, it's theirs. Just get it out quickly as you can.
 
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