Iron_llama
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No deer, but a number of jackrabbits. Buddy of mine shot a black bear with one.Does anyone use or have killed a deer with a mossin rifle?
No deer, but a number of jackrabbits. Buddy of mine shot a black bear with one.Does anyone use or have killed a deer with a mossin rifle?
I heard any interesting piece of trivia on one of the MeatEater trivia shows recently. The number 1 cause of death by predator for fawns was coyotes at 76%. Second was black bears at something like 14%.
I’m not pointing that out to disagree with you. It just surprised me how many more fawns coyotes kill.
Here are the results from the Fawn Mortality Study the PA Game Comm. did several years back on PA public land. The difference in the bear % below is that the Quehanna Wild Area has alot more bears in it than the Penns Valley region does.
Where there were a bunch of bears, they killed a bunch of fawns. They were the dominant predator in the QWA. I couldn't make the columns line up, but you guys are smart, you'll figure it out.
----- Penns Valley ---- Quehanna Wild Area
Predator species %
Coyote --- 62.5 --------- 31.7
Bear --- 12.5 ------ --- --- 36.6
Bobcat --- .0 -- ----------- 7.3
Unidentified --- 25.0 -- ------ 24.4
Here are the results from the Fawn Mortality Study the PA Game Comm. did several years back on PA public land. The difference in the bear % below is that the Quehanna Wild Area has alot more bears in it than the Penns Valley region does.
Where there were a bunch of bears, they killed a bunch of fawns. They were the dominant predator in the QWA. I couldn't make the columns line up, but you guys are smart, you'll figure it out.
----- Penns Valley ---- Quehanna Wild Area
Predator species %
Coyote --- 62.5 --------- 31.7
Bear --- 12.5 ------ --- --- 36.6
Bobcat --- .0 -- ----------- 7.3
Unidentified --- 25.0 -- ------ 24.4
Now that's creative right there!!!he was mocking your scrape....
I wish the bears would just go away Its cool seeing them and everything but I do think they have some kind of an impact. I had some buck pics on my cell cams and then a yearling came through and although doe movement seems the same.....the larger bucks haven't been back on my cell cams. I haven't checked my standard cams yet. I'll probably try to change out cards and do battery checks this weekend if I can.
Good points. I have purposely not been going in there at all to keep human intrusion down and I doubt bears have as much of an impact as humans but hey, I’ve gotta blame somethingi wonder who’s impact on deer is greater, the bear or the humans.