Bear Hunting

TITLE: THE CAVE BEAR  PULL QUOTE: “From there, we followed the blood trail through this thick area and saw what looked to be a cave in the rock face in front of us.”  ABOUT THE AUTHOR: I was born and raised in a small town in Minnesota, which is where …

Learn how to survive a bear attack and defend yourself from a black bear or grizzly bear. Know your self-defense options and how to prepare for bear country whether you are hiking, camping, backpacking, or hunting. Dan Pickar (IG @danpickar) tests bear spray and shows how to use it properly. …

Bow hunt black bears in the spring with Guy Eastman on this web episode of Eastmans’ Hunting TV. Travel north to British Columbia for this spot and stalk bow hunt. It’s breeding season for the bears and Guy is hoping a big boar crosses his path.  

The 2021 Montana legislature passed HB 468 to allow the hunting of black bears with hounds during the state’s spring bear season outside of occupied grizzly habitat.  This decision has come with challenges and questions from both hunters and state wildlife biologists and managers. Is hunting bears with hounds “fair …

  As I have written about in the past, the pressure that the hunters put on the Commission to reinstate the spring bear hunt resulted in a special commission meeting on Friday, January 21st to consider the next steps to take.  There was a lot of back and forth between …

GUEST AUTHOR: Brian Clintworth Last month I wrote about the Washington Spring Bear hunt being cancelled in 2022 due to the Commission having a split vote which was driven by a couple of commission members that chose to ignore the science and vote with emotion.  Outraged hunters started several grassroots …

GUEST AUTHOR: Brian Clintworth Hunters in Washington have just lost their Spring Bear season for 2022, but hunters everywhere should take note as the anti hunters will see this as a victory and look to further their agenda across the nation.  Last month the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission …

Four black bear kills packed into one hunting video on this web exclusive hunt from Eastmans’ Hunting Journals. Bear hunting is an important tool for conservation of deer, elk and other wildlife. Elk calves and deer fawns are easy targets for hungry bears in the spring. One bear can eat …

Stop Moving The Recovery Goalposts! It seems that grizzly bear attacks and altercations are rampant this year. Recently another group of hunters in Wyoming shot and killed a charging boar grizzly while they were elk hunting. In Montana a small group of hunters have killed a sow with no cubs …

< This video is coming soon exclusively for TagHub members May 15th! Dan Pickar was charged by a wounded black bear last spring. The experience got him questioning his own preparedness for a bear attack. This video Dan dives into the details of how to defend yourself in a bear …