Blackie tried to join me in my treestand

[DAbersold]

#6445

I’d seen it on U-tube and the hunting sites, but I never thought it would happen to me. What are these bears thinking?
I was sitting in my ladder stand last night about an hour before dark when I heard something behind me. I was able to stand and get turned around just in time to see a bear come over the ridge behind me— down wind! As I watched, he made a be-line right to the base of my tree. With the cover he was in, I was able to turn and face straight ahead to wait for him to come out in front so I could get a shot. Instead, he stopped at the base of the tree, then proceeded to come around front an look up my ladder at me. Next thing I knew, his front paw was on the second rung, followed by his other paw on the third. I figured it was time to let him know there was only room for one of us in this stand, so I looked straight down at him from six feet away. He saw the movement and quickly hit the ground and ran without offering me a good shot. The irony of the whole thing was that I had just spent the last six evenings sitting over a berry patch waiting for a bear to show. This was my first night in my “Deer” stand. Go figure?

😯

[rayborbon]

#51440

Those buggers sure are crafty and curious. Gotta keep em in check.

[Charles Ek]

#51510

Funniest bear hunting story I’ve heard was told to me by a guide in Northern Minnesota. A hunter complained that he wasn’t seeing any bears at the stand he’d been assigned. The guide and an accomplice went to the stand at the end of the day and soaked the carpeting with some powerful attractant odor.
The hunter took his stand before dawn the next morning. The first time he realized there was a bear in the vicinity was when it yanked the carpeting out from under him. The hunter was found “somewhat” higher in the tree and “somewhat” louder when they got to him. 😀

[DAbersold]

#51522

😆 😆 😆

[RedTape]

#54154

I was fortunate enough to hunt black bears in Saskatchewan when I was 16. My father, although not hunting, went with me and was in a tall birch tree about 20 feet behind me and to my right. The first bear that came out walked right under my stand, to my dads tree, stood up on his back legs and started shaking the tree while looking up at him. He started picking one of his back legs up reaching for the first tree step, and after missing it a couple times, got bored and sauntered off.:shock:

[William Warren]

#54885

Had a big sow check me out in my stand on a hunt in Quebec once. She stood up on the tree and shook it several times. I figured other hunters had been spotted in that same tree so she was checking. Talk about uneasy. She was not a legal bear and she had cubs so shooting her was not an option. Poking her with a broadhead if she kept coming was in my thoughts though.

[JL]

#55565

Let’s see, from our viewpoint it is “bow hunter in a tree stand” do you suppose from a bears it is “Appetizer on a stick”?

[Bigbearclaw]

#57873

Happened to me in Northern Maine,kinda makes your butt pucker a little when there really aint room for both of you on the stand.He went back down and lost his life to a 2 blade Magnus about 10 minutes later.

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