Grizzly Encounters

[Deer_Slayer]

Just curious. Since the ban on grizzly hunting in BC, does anyone have encounter stories? Are you seeing more Grizz and are they acting more aggressive than usual?

[HappyJack]

About the same where we go, nothing really different just lots of them out there so maybe the big boars are keeping the population in check in high density spots??

[Deer_Slayer]

Yeah could be right. I am surprised since the ban I am not seeing any stories or complaints about over aggressive and more frequent encounters.

[CheesyLimper]

I've been going to the same spot west of Smithers every spring more or less yearly since 2008; sometimes for work, sometimes black bear hunting. I saw maybe half a dozen grizzlies total until 2017. Since then, I see 3-6 a year (probably same bear on a few occasions). I don't find them aggressive but they do seem a lot less scared of me than bears past. I also see a lot less black bears there now.

[leadpillproductions]

My black bear spot seen way less blacks and over 20 grizzly in 30km area

[264mag]

My son and I were on a fly in sheep hunt in region 6 for opener. We had a grizzly come right to our tent on the tundra, we started yelling when he was at 400 yards. First warning shot at 175, 3 more until he was at about 50. We had a stare down until he decided our scent wasn’t cool. He turned around and headed out of the valley. Now there was another hunter about 1 km across the valley filming it all on phone skope. The bear ran right past his tent while his dad was in it.
Just to note I had decided to shoot this bear if he took one more step towards us. He had our wind for about 3-4 minutes and wasn’t scared.
I don’t know much about aging bears but I would guess he was about 4-5 hrs old, and likely hadn’t been shot at before. The first warning shot was 20 yards in front of him. The last 3 were all spraying dirt and gravel in his face and it didn’t slow him down at all.
watching a bear run at you for 5-7 minutes is a scary thing.

[warnniklz]

Horsefly... 2 weekends in a row, 2 grizzlies at the 40 yard line. Not a major deal to me really.

[decker9]

Had a few close calls, my dogs saved my arse twice now while sheep hunting, one defiantly would have ended bad.

This was the last one a couple years ago, which wasn’t so bad. Felt a little under gunned between my gf and I though, all we had was a 6.5 swede and a walking stick lol. 7pm, 100 yards from the tent, sleep was very light that night.

https://youtu.be/8JMZlpotV1s

[Bernie O]

The reason you dont hear about more encounters is people practicing the 3 sss.

[RyoTHC]

Grizz around nicola lake between Kamloops and Merritt the past two years. Have laid eyes on four different animals, three I believe to be sows and one was a brute of a boar.

have to be careful hunting colour phase bears around that area !