If you bow hunt, go to Cohutta WMA. Find a good white oak that is dropping acorns and has bear sign around it. Hunting in the evenings are better for seeing bears. Good luck and have about 7-8 friends on standby in case you kill a biggun.
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Firearms for me. I’m gonna plan a trip next year to Blue ridge, Cohutta, or Chattahoochee during an early season buck/bear firearms hunt. I’ve done a lot of reading since I posted and think I may have a very loose grip on what o do.If you bow hunt, go to Cohutta WMA. Find a good white oak that is dropping acorns and has bear sign around it. Hunting in the evenings are better for seeing bears. Good luck and have about 7-8 friends on standby in case you kill a biggun.
Most bears that hibernate do so because their food supply runs short and I don’t know of that being the case here in GeorgiaBeen doing some reading. Not sure what their hibernation schedule is down here.
What time of year? Terrain? Etc.?
How did the truck hold up? Lol
Hit them with a brand new Ram 2500 truck at 60 mph.
That’s how I got this one Wednesday night
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Agreed, wise advice. My cousins have killed a few 400 to 500 pounders out in the backwoods in some terribly steep areas that were nothing but laurel thicket that had to be crawled through they were so thick and the only way to get them out of there was in pieces. Better eat your Wheaties when it comes to bear hunting in the mountains.It's one thing to shoot a 300+ lbs bear but you better have a good plan on getting him out. It ain't like the flat lands where you drive your truck in a throw'em in the back. I spend a lot of time cutting blowdowns in the Cohuttas and Blue Ridge WMA and I live on the edge of the Rich Mtn Wilderness Area. The WMAs are very rugged, steep and most of the trails are not well marked. I see a lot of bear when I'm out and there are also a lot of wild hogs and coyotes.
I would recommend you come up and camp for a few days during the spring and summer to get familiar with the terrain, the environment and scout out several different areas. Make sure you stay on public land as people up here don't take to kind to trespassers.
How did the truck hold up? Lol
It's one thing to shoot a 300+ lbs bear but you better have a good plan on getting him out. It ain't like the flat lands where you drive your truck in a throw'em in the back. I spend a lot of time cutting blowdowns in the Cohuttas and Blue Ridge WMA and I live on the edge of the Rich Mtn Wilderness Area. The WMAs are very rugged, steep and most of the trails are not well marked. I see a lot of bear when I'm out and there are also a lot of wild hogs and coyotes.
I would recommend you come up and camp for a few days during the spring and summer to get familiar with the terrain, the environment and scout out several different areas. Make sure you stay on public land as people up here don't take to kind to trespassers.