It has warned me of one bear, and I usually set it up 30-50 feet away from the tent. I try to set up my tent with a natural barrier behind it, so if the bear comes in, it can only come towards one side of the tent. And the sheep hunt went good in the sense of seeing sheep, a few were close to legal but alittle too close too call. And I'd like my first bighorn to be alittle further past legal, as it will be the only one I probably ever get because next October I'll be moving up to the Yukon. So I'll be hunting hard for one again, this upcoming season.
Fell free to pm me. Always love talking about sheep hunting, if you're into that.
That's one big lesson i learned from my last alpine adventure for mule deer. You might want to check out this thread with a write up of my terrifying bear scare:
http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showth...utside-my-tent
I set my tent up in the open as it was flat. Huge mistake. Definitely should have backed it into some trees leaving only one side as potential for a bear invasion. In the end it didn't even end up being flat enough, and i kept sliding off my matt down toward the bottom of the tent. Worst tent set up i've ever done in 20 years of pitching tents. lol.
We used a pack alarm on our EK goat hunting trip this past September. The line provided was able to encompass a pretty decent area around our three tent camp. We had at least one instance where the nightly mountain breeze set the alarm off, at least to our knowledge that was the cause. Let me tell you it scares the living S out of you hear that siren go off from a deep sleep.
If you use one I would recommend that you replace the line provided with neon braided fishing line. It is really easy to walk into the line by accident and we wound up damaging it at one point. Or tie flagging tape to it as suggested above. Also make sure you loop the line around trees that won't move at all in the wind. Up in the alpine all we had were small larch which was not ideal.
".....It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of a Trudeau government than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their prime minister......"
Ive spent the last 27 years on 1300 acres north east of Prince George, around the salmon valley area. Never had serious issues with Grizzlies yet have had more than my share with black bears. A lopsided population in my area affects the probability of an encounter yet there are no shortage of Grizzlies. This spring we counted 14 black bears in our fields in a single day. At least 7 different that day, so just by sheer numbers there will be more black bear issues I guess. Won't disagree that 99/100 black bears will turn tail though.
Always pack in pots and pan when backpacking, most areas we hunt around here you can drive into camp and be in the alpine in under an hour hiking. I don't see how one could pack a full cooler up an mountain or would assume that's what i was talking about that I was referring to the op and camping in general in general.
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One of the biggest wake up calls following my encounter with a bear outside my tent was the fact that i couldn't see shit. It sucks just being a sittin duck in the dark like that. Got me thinking ..... how many of you skip the tent and use a tarp? At least if you hear a noise you can get that headlamp turned on quickly enough to see what you're dealing with.
From now on, i always sleep with headlamp on my head and gun next to me with one in the pipe. F*ck that. No exceptions.
I know that a tarp is a no go for extended sheep hunts where crappy weather would have you soaked in no time ... but thinking more about early season high country mule deer hunts. Plus, my tent weighs 5lb all packed up and a decent sized tarp would weigh maybe 2? 2.5?
Any thoughts? Anyone feel the same way?
Scanning through old threads and this one is a gooder...^^^^^I also when backpack hunting or camping sleep with my headlamp on and one in the chamber...at some point this year I'm gonna get that pack alarm, but til then, I just pack fishing line, wrap it around my area I'm sleeping, and suspend my army metal boiling cup from fishing line and throw in a few pebbles...have a very good but heavier (6.5 lb) tent for the crappier weather hike in camps, but am thinking of ordering this for the 1-2 day fair weather hike in camps:
http://www.liteoutdoors.com/product/...FVKewAodNbYHFg
Like you said, should offer a better view of any intruder compared to an enclosed tent...
Read Gary Sheltons books. This guy knows his stuff. Don't be a Timothy Treadwell!
^^^^^^^ I agree, some of the best, realistic commenting on bear issues that I have ever read and advice that works!
Treadwell, was an example of the "bliss ninny" type so common when we old geezers here were young in the '60s and his demise and that of his GF were his fault due to a massive ego and extensive drug use..........