Re: Bear Snare
[Re: Chris F.]
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04/15/18 04:29 PM
04/15/18 04:29 PM
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Osky
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Hang your bait once a large one is hitting then set up a leg snare up hi.
"A womans heart is the hardest rock the Almighty has put on this earth, and I can find no sign on it" Jabless in Minnesota www.SureDockusa.com
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Re: Bear Snare
[Re: Chris F.]
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04/15/18 05:19 PM
04/15/18 05:19 PM
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Posts: 3,103 7mtns of CENTRAL PA
GROUSEWIT
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On the smaller ones just put catchpole around neck and pin em down an remove snare.TIP: Make sure mom ain't close by!
NRALIFER,PRPA LIFER,HUNTER,FURTAKER
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Re: Bear Snare
[Re: Chris F.]
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04/15/18 06:17 PM
04/15/18 06:17 PM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 11,135 Armpit, ak
Dirt
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TrapperChrisME is their a logical reason for Maine's rule? I never caught anything but bears in the bucket sets and way more effective than ground snares for me.
Who is John Galt?
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Re: Bear Snare
[Re: bbasher]
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04/15/18 11:04 PM
04/15/18 11:04 PM
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AJE
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Setting a snare 6ft in a tree seems like a good way to neck snare a bear. I don't think anywhere in the USA would allow an elevated open snare set for bear. That said, I don't understand why we can't foot snare bears. It seems very humane to me. I know in Wi we can foot snare coyotes. I don't understand why Maine is the only state to allow foot snaring bears.
Last edited by AJE; 04/15/18 11:04 PM.
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Re: Bear Snare
[Re: bbasher]
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04/15/18 11:49 PM
04/15/18 11:49 PM
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Dirt
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Setting a snare 6ft in a tree seems like a good way to neck snare a bear. You are not going to neck snare too many bears with a 6 or 7 inch loop and the trigger at the back of the bucket with a 6 inch hole in the lid. Could snout one though.
Who is John Galt?
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Re: Bear Snare
[Re: SleekOtter]
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04/16/18 12:41 PM
04/16/18 12:41 PM
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Posts: 2,154 Tug Hill, NY
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First off, you need to find a bear here over 200lbs. They exist...somewhere Sleek, all Maine Black Bears are over 200lbs,they just seem to lose 50lbs of air when you shoot them! But to answer your question Chris, about avoiding smaller bears...It's been my experience that targeting larger bears in Maine, you will be better off trapping mid to late October. By then more sows and cubs will have started denning and the bigger males tend to den later. However with weather patterns these days, who knows...Good luck...
~Illegitimi Non Carborundum~
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