Blake
In my experience The Bear will always come in
Wednesday, August 12, 2026, 17:15

To investigate down wind of you. I did some calling when I lived in Colorado.
Call in a couple of them. The first one I never saw. Didn’t even know it was there. I called for almost an hour then headed up the mountain farther. Came across a dirt road that I was unaware of and found a set of good size Bear tracks. The road was fairly soft and the tracks easily enough to fallow, looked very fresh. This was early morning and a bit cold in the fall at around 6000 ft
I tracked them for only about 30 yards and came on a 4 wheeler trail that headed back down the mountain. I picked up the tracks heading down the trail and came to a stop where I could see the bear stud there for a while moving back and forth side to side. I looked up and all around and realized the place I was calling from was about 25 yards away! That was my first lesson in bear hunting by calling. I tuck a black bear in Alaska so 12 years prior but that was more of an opportunistic rifle hunt for meat for the cabin. In Colorado I was hunting with my new Reeder Long Colt Hunter Revolver.