What to do

[87TT]

What is the worst case scenario, You shoot and kill the bear/grizzly. What happens ?

More meat to pack

 

[MtnOyster]

If it's a grizzly, and you can't prove it was attacking you, you'll face a stiff fine and/or jail time.

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Who’s gonna tell?

 

[Bshiftbc]

And that is probably a good spot to stop!

 

[neil.hansford]

Who’s gonna tell?

You are, if you follow the law. In MT, you must report it within 72 hours. OP asked about the written laws.

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[fwafwow]

OP - any concern about where to cut out the partially eaten food? I had second thoughts about eating my kids' leftover chicken parm recently (not sure if it was my daughter's, or one of her friends'), so I'd think a lot about the bear saliva and whether his/her dirty claws had been up in my elk meat.

 

[87TT]

Trim it, wash it, cook it

 

[b1c2r3r4]

I wouldn’t think a bear would go to each quarter and sample them. I would leave the quarter or two that was eaten on if the bear isn’t around. It sounds like the law is on the bears side so if there is a bear there I will have to leave the meat.

 

[MtnOyster]

You are, if you follow the law. In MT, you must report it within 72 hours. OP asked about the written laws.

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Most people wouldnt

 

[neil.hansford]

Most people wouldnt

I can't pretend to know what most people would or wouldn't do. There's probably some that go unreported. Just letting the OP know what the law is, at least in MT.

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[KSadventures80]

The meat is the bears if it's a grizz. Posting the SSS isn't helping new hunters and it's not helping this groups rep. It's a personal choice but couldn't you contact F&G for a salvage tag?

See if you can go shoot a cow. Go back a week later to get your antlers if they are still at the kill.

 

[blfelts]

If the bear isn’t at the site, recover the meat and get the heck outta there. Be bear aware though


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[RazAlGhoul]

Who’s gonna tell?

Exactly my thought Lols.

 

[11boo]

I’ve taken 17 elk, never had a bear issue. Had one instance where three of us each filled cow tags, packed out two and left the third for tomorrow. A big pack of coyotes stripped it down to bone that night.

 

[b1c2r3r4]

Thanks 11boo that is good to know.

 

[11boo]

Thanks 11boo that is good to know.

If I had any idea that would have happened we could have hung the meat instead of leaving it in a snow bank, the coyotes ignored the other nearby elk remains, and I don’t blame them.

 

[cmahoney]

Thanks for the replies. We don’t have to worry about bears or wolves in Texas so I appreciate y’all’s answers.

No body has some weird Siberian bears in a high fence ranch down there?


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[b1c2r3r4]

Oh I bet somebody down here has some chained up and you can “hunt” them for a big fee.

 

[bstronger]

What they say where I'm from... Shoot, shovel, and shut up. Best of luck this season and hopefully it doesn't have to come to that.

 

[roosiebull]

I have never hunted around grizzlies, so a black bear I would run off and trim the eaten quarters if needed.

if I was hunting around grizz, I would take precaution and figure out how to get the meat out of reach from bears, seems pretty straight forward in grizz country.

if something happened and I wasn't able to, knowing what I know (or what I don't know) I would try to run the bear off, I want the meat, and I would do whatever I could to recover it even if it wasn't the most common sense thing to do.

I feel like if I was hunting around them, I would take the steps to avoid that situation, and come in for the second load adequately armed.

a little foresight should keep you out of that situation, it's a bad time to get lazy when you have meat on the ground.... don't leave until it's out of reach of the local wildlife that may claim it or eat it.

we are lucky here in that regard, you can leave meat on the ground without issue (always get it hung for cooling anyways) but I have never had any type of issue or known anyone who has with animals being eaten.

educate yourself about the areas you hunt, take the necessary steps and don't have those issues is the best course of action.

 

[Beendare]

I'm actually a bit surprised by some of these comments...."Shoot a grizz, who is going to know?"

You are.......


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