Geez, I really, REALLY hate bears! Every year they get into at least one of my deer stands! They climb the stairs, bust a window out and eat the chair. They ALWAYS eat the chair for some reason. This one also smashed the Buddy heater, chewed on the binoculars and chewed the propane line off. He also chewed off the green treated lumber on the handrail for good measure. In MN you need to draw a tag for these things. I say there should be a bounty on them instead!

They love foam

I guess so. I can't believe they can smell foam 8 feet up in the air and behind closed windows. I just assumed they were smelling my "swamp butt" from sitting on the chair 8 hours a day.

That’s entirely possible, but if they have a chance to shred some foam, they will do it 100% of the time

… hunt that thing down and whack it upside the head with an axe handle

I have a 36” axe handle in my toolbox specifically for motivating dump bears to vacate while I toss trash out of the truck lol

Or remove after deer season. We don't have a bear issue here. We have much worse. SQUIRRELS
The will eat anything. So, the day after the season ends. I remove everything, including my ladder, burlap, shooting rail. If its not screwed to the stand or tree, it's removed until the next season.

Sarge

When our son's were in diapers, we had a bear come in and knock our garbage can over and haul a large Hefty plastic bag about 75 yards into the woods. The entire contents of bag was scattered about with t-bone steak scraps and chicken scraps untouched. The only thing consumed was the butt end of about 10 soiled diapers. Perhaps the bear baiters should add used diapers to their feed!

Chris

Or use fart spray when in the stand. They should come right in. As always, check your state laws if legal to use.

Sarge

I am in luck! I found an axe handle. It was even built for this purpose.

Door cam in my neighborhood last nite. Has everyone shook up we don’t have bears according to DNR. Lol

They like digging up spilled heating oil, chewing on most anything plastic like jerry jugs, and inflatable boats. I think the 3-5 year olds are the most prone to bad behavior, juvenile delinquents, of sorts.

Here we SSS.
Constantly.

We use a switch here to tame'em

They like to chew up bar oil jugs too. They’ll bite into the gas jug once, but I think mixed gas is spicier than they like lol. But they love bar oil for some reason, I’ve had many sets of jugs tore up in my strip

Just how slow do you walk?

That sucks!!

I pack in a few sets of gas/oil jugs so they’re strategically located in a unit, that way I never have to go too far when the saw runs dry. So they find those and tear them up, if I was holding the jugs, I’d kick the bear in the face with a corked boot and send them on their way

Heck of an axe handle there sir.

Imagine that, our dnr said we didn't have mountain lions either until they started getting hit be cars. 160 our bears are not that nasty. They just use our deer stands for itching posts.