Arizona Bear Season

[1shot]

#5948

Almost time to start setting trail cams for the 23Aug2014-3Oct2014 AZ archery Bear season (no baiting allowed for AZ Bear hunting). I stopped bear hunting a few years ago, but it’s time to get back after them as I’m feeling the draw to get a nice color-phase Black bear… The season is based on a projected female harvest, after a certain amount, 5females in 34A, are killed they shut the season down the following wensday, and most years that limit is reached on the first weekend, so the season runs for 5days before it is shut-down.

Hopefully I can get it done this year…

[Doc Nock]

#46168

GOOD LUCK!

A color phase bear with a bare bow (not necessarily a Bear bow) would be really cool.

That country you hunt, you’ll need to either skin it there or bring a cart to not damage that purdy hide! Those pics you show us are pretty rugged lookin country!:D

[Etter1]

#46566

Make sure you keep us updated and post pictures. Good luck!

[Ptaylor]

#46583

Hey 1Shot, How many males can be harvested while the zone is open? 5 days, that’s a short season, good luck.

[1shot]

#47328

They dont make a limit on male bears killed, you have 24hours to report your bear and when 5females are taken they shut-down the season the following wensday and the females limit is normaly hit that first weekend, so thats why the season is so short…

I skin, de-bone and pack my critters off the mountain, even a “short” hike is killer to attempt getting an animal out whole… I have done the “Lash-critter-to-a-Pole” and carry-it-out before, on flat, level ground it’s not so bad, in the MT’s it’s a form of torture…

[paleoman]

#47796

Where do you set trail cams out in that dry gulch country? I know in the East I’d look over Beech ridges, any old apple trees, standing corn, etc. What they eat out there:?:

[1shot]

#48320

Grasses, mast, fawns and other small game are all foods they hit here in So. Az…. I set cams along trails in canyons that have alot of Juniper trees, a favorite food here. The scat sign will still show from last year, and thats how I found a “scat-paved” bear canyon to hunt this year. They will also get into flipping rocks over for insect critters, so you can hear them doing this from a long ways off.

We also call our Bears here at our “stands”(no baiting of any kind allowed), walking into Canyons, setting-up in some cover and hitting a hurt rabbit/deer call… and hoping for a Bear to respond…

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