Quote Originally Posted by CheesyLimper View Post
I'll weigh in as a bee keeper:

Electric fence works great for bears as long as they are trained to it. Normally, you want to smear the wire with peanut butter or drape bacon over it to encourage the bear to deliberately touch the wire - then it knows that that is the source of the shock. I'm unsure if this would be a great idea while out hunting though...

If you just hang up a few wires and the bear blunders into it though, it's as likely to run through it as run away and then end up in camp, likely pissed.

My electric fence did fail last year due to dry ground and the bears (sow and cubs) did get through in the night. After cleaning up, I hung a pack alarm up around the outside of the electric fence thinking at least it would wake me up so I could respond one way or another. Bears came back 3 times in 3 nights, set the alarm off every time and were nowhere to be found by the time I got outside.
Great to hear the pack alarm worked we picked one up for our Goat trip cant wait to hit the hills!!