What happened to the black bears ??

[TreeKiwi]

Maybe they are scared of whatever the Halloween beast is!!!

[L3M182]

i hinted them about 2 weeks ago for a few days in rrb and tbh i didnt notice anything. had no issue plugging them at the feeder with a bow

[strandjutter]

could this behavior have anything to do with the fact that if you try to shoot a bear with a recurve bow (grizly mission)the moment you release the arrow the bear spookes !
An arrow takes a second to get to the targeted bear, most of the times it is gone when the arrow impacts.
Me and my friends have been experiencing this all the time at TGT, we gave up on doing the mission because of this "thing".

I wunder if anyone else is having the same experience ?

[maros.kuzar]

TBH I think that bears are seriously messed up, and hunting them is disappointing at best. Nowadays it is extremely rare occasion for me to see running bear. After being hit, they just walk away in a bit faster pace, but nothing special. You spook them, they walk away, ...

[Ravenousfox]

TBH I think that bears are seriously messed up, and hunting them is disappointing at best. Nowadays it is extremely rare occasion for me to see running bear. After being hit, they just walk away in a bit faster pace, but nothing special. You spook them, they walk away, ...

I find it better. Now we don't have bears spazzing out doing 360 loop de loops around trees 5+ times in hyper speed.
No more rocket-propelled bears, thank god.

[maros.kuzar]

TBH I think that bears are seriously messed up, and hunting them is disappointing at best. Nowadays it is extremely rare occasion for me to see running bear. After being hit, they just walk away in a bit faster pace, but nothing special. You spook them, they walk away, ...

I find it better. Now we don't have bears spazzing out doing 360 loop de loops around trees 5+ times in hyper speed.
No more rocket-propelled bears, thank god.

Ok, yeah, I agree with you, but we went from one extreme to another

[baloo.the.dog]

I noticed the trotting too, but what is wrong with that?

[saldas1983]

I was hunting in SC lately and didn't notice anything unusual. They were roaming, didn't see any trotting. Maybe SC is not affected or I'm just very lucky.

[lefrog52]

I've been playing bear competition lately. one thing i noticed is when i stay in a tree stand and let the bears roam around the barrel till i see a trophy bear the usually just walk, if i sppok them with a gun shot they will run
but ne new thing i noticed they will all trot away if a huge bear appears so my comclusion is if you see bears trotting, there is most likly a trphy bear in the area

[InstinctiveArcher]

I've been playing bear competition lately. one thing i noticed is when i stay in a tree stand and let the bears roam around the barrel till i see a trophy bear the usually just walk, if i sppok them with a gun shot they will run
but ne new thing i noticed they will all trot away if a huge bear appears so my comclusion is if you see bears trotting, there is most likly a trphy bear in the area

This would make sense. When hunting in Canada, whenever the smaller bears at the bait would leave quickly, it almost always meant that a bigger bear was coming in to the bait.