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MoodyBluer
03-14-2008, 21:51
Read someone's entry on Trailjournals today (forgot to save the link and now I can't find it again) about a bear, to use the writer's words, that "ripped a pack off of a hiker". Don't know if they mean't ripped off in the literal sense or whether the bear just pilfered an unattended pack.

The journal entry said this took place at Deep Gap shelter last week and that rangers were warning folks 'bout Smoky.

Anybody got any more info on this?

Blue Jay
03-14-2008, 23:09
Stealing Bears is a serious crime. In some states you can shoot them. Stealing them is right out.:eek:

Montego
03-14-2008, 23:11
Stealing Bears is a serious crime. In some states you can shoot them. Stealing them is right out.:eek:

Well, I've seen a bear-napping once...........yeah, it's ugly :D

dessertrat
03-14-2008, 23:31
Is that why the guy was on here asking about bear bagging last week? He went and stole a bear!

Wise Old Owl
03-15-2008, 00:14
Well, I've seen a bear-napping once...........yeah, it's ugly :D


1. I wonder how many years you get-if caught "Bear-napping".
2. Old Smok'ys habit has grown beyond Pack-Sniffing, to Pack Tokin!
3. One bear says to the other, Honey, I am tierd of Samon & Bee's, Lets get a packin!
Honestly - I did search, Google hasn't logged it yet.

markc7
03-16-2008, 08:52
Am I the only one who thought the thread was called "Beer theft at Deep Gap"? Now that would be serious. :D

canerunner
03-16-2008, 09:46
I don't know about you folks, but if I was going to steal a bear, I'd try to do it near an easily accessible road crossing or something. I think the bear thrashing around trying to get out of that bear bag might be pretty hard to carry for any distance. :-?

Of course, you could just 'nap a cub, and then you wouldn't have any problem getting a full grown sow to follow you out of the woods. :eek:

Jan LiteShoe
03-16-2008, 09:49
Read someone's entry on Trailjournals today (forgot to save the link and now I can't find it again) about a bear, to use the writer's words, that "ripped a pack off of a hiker". Don't know if they mean't ripped off in the literal sense or whether the bear just pilfered an unattended pack.

The journal entry said this took place at Deep Gap shelter last week and that rangers were warning folks 'bout Smoky.

Anybody got any more info on this?

As much as six years ago there were reports of bear hanging around near this shelter.

MoodyBluer
03-16-2008, 11:24
My bad on the thread title...but when I was a little boy I always wanted a pet bear!

Anyway's...anybody know of any creedence to my original query? (not the stealing bears part :))

Doughnut
03-16-2008, 21:24
I was near there in November and there were postings about an aggressive bear between Rock Gap and Deep Gap (Too bad he didn't eat Hilton,).

Skidsteer
03-16-2008, 21:46
As much as six years ago there were reports of bear hanging around near this shelter.

That's about how long the notices have been posted, IIRC....

Monkeyboy
03-17-2008, 21:51
My son and I saw a large one there last summer.....we were stopping on the trail, waiting for others in our group to go down to the stream there to fill up their water bottles after lunch.

Luckily, it took off running as soon as it saw us, but it was BIG.

Boudin
03-18-2008, 06:32
Which Deep Gap????

MoodyBluer
03-18-2008, 10:17
Which Deep Gap????


Deep Gap shelter...last shelter before Dicks Creek Gap (Highway 76) in GA.

van6497
03-27-2008, 19:23
http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=220977

stumpy
03-27-2008, 19:31
That area is real close to a bear sanctuary. I would image that there are alot of bears around those parts. I have never seen a bear, but I have come across several different hunters looking for thier bear hunting dogs.

Deerleg
03-27-2008, 19:54
That area is real close to a bear sanctuary. I would image that there are alot of bears around those parts. I have never seen a bear, but I have come across several different hunters looking for thier bear hunting dogs.

Speaking of dogs...from a prior post:
"...I took a 7-day hike from Unicoi Gap (GA) all the way thru NC during the peak of bear gun season. It is a cultural tradition for large groups of hunters, fathers, sons, and grandsons, to hunt the North Carolina Mountains with their hounds. On Oct 15th I must have seen no less then 40 hunters and 100 hounds all using the trail to hunt the mountains they grew up in and hold so dear. I enjoyed, along with those men the sound of the hounds baying off in the valleys as they picked up the sent of their quarry. I felt like a guest in their house and acted accordingly. To a man they were a very courteous group and I stopped and talked with several groups over the 1st couple days of hunting season. I only heard 3 shots all week, so I would say over all they were only shooting when a target was clearly identified..."

stumpy
03-28-2008, 16:48
Not to high jack this tread, but I have a German Shorthaired Pointer. They were bred to be an everything dog to the average german family (companion, protector, hunter/tracker of game, large and small). I love to train and work him on birds. There is nothing quite like the sight of a great dog working the fields/woods!!

Bulldawg
03-28-2008, 16:51
Am I the only one who thought the thread was called "Beer theft at Deep Gap"? Now that would be serious. :D

I have to admit I did actually have to make a doubl take because I thought someone was stealing beer!!

Bulldawg
03-28-2008, 16:53
Deep Gap shelter...last shelter before Dicks Creek Gap (Highway 76) in GA.

Hmmm, good friend mine killed a real nice beer near there; on the Burton WMA; two years ago.

Bulldawg
03-28-2008, 16:56
http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=220977

The way that entry reads, it happened south of Neels, not north of Neels???

Tin Man
03-28-2008, 16:57
Hmmm, good friend mine killed a real nice beer near there; on the Burton WMA; two years ago.

Only killed one beer two years ago and hasn't killed any since??

take-a-knee
03-28-2008, 22:25
You cannot hunt big game in the Georgia Mountains with dogs, if GA DNR catches you doing so they will pull out all the stops to jail your a$$, as well they should. Running deer and bear with dogs is what nearly eliminated them in the first place. I understand Tennessee still allows it but it should be outlawed unless spot and stalk hunting can't keep the bear population from running amok.

I grew up chasing raccoon dogs all over the swamps of Georgia, I love to hear "hound music" as they trail. A bear, however, is a more noble beast than a raccoon, and deserves a more dignified end than to be chased up a tree and shot at point-blank range.

stumpy
03-29-2008, 02:07
This area is in NC, and they still hunt bear with dogs up there. I know running dear with dogs was the way of choice with the locals when I lived in North Flordia.

Jaybird62
03-29-2008, 02:15
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Nearly Normal
03-29-2008, 18:47
It aint just treeing and killing bears.
You might run at a fast clip all night and never catch that critter.
You have to be familiar with the terrain just to get where you are going. Bushwacking at full speed.
A bear aint going to tree just hearing the dogs. They have to catch him and put him up. Then he might educate a couple of them and run some more.
It take dogs with fight to run into a bear and he may kill some of them.
Most people are too lazy to bear hunt with dogs.

sofaking
03-29-2008, 22:51
where's the beers?

Jaybird62
03-29-2008, 23:37
rite heer. or at least they were,. what the