05-11-2020, 04:11 PM
On my current hunt club the raccoons and deer feed together, I have seen the deer try to stomp a racoon. My buddy sent me a pic of a 8 point who had a coon pinned down with his antlers.. The hunt club I was on years ago had a bear or two and we might see one a couple of times a year...then somebody released over 70 hogs onto the property or the neighbors? no fence..and the hogs multiplied quickly becoming a problem. The property was a pine plantation with river swamp and very thick, no open fields. We put out feeders hoping to bring the hogs in to shoot them, that worked but not everybody on the lease wanted to "mess with a hog"..Within 2 years we were covered up with hogs and would see several bears hanging around the soy bean feeders.. We used soy beans because bears did not prefer to eat them and when they did you would find piles of puke with soybeans in it. We called in a trapper..Hog traps did not work because bears would get the hogs from the traps and the guy gave up. .We think we had at least 20 different adult bears, I had pictures of sow bears with 3 and sometimes 4 cubs..The bears would wait for the hogs to show up and then run them down. Our bears do not hibernate and they eat all year so they can get pretty big. The is no bear hunting in my state and some of the bears have lost their fear of man..they don't always run from us. I had a bear follow 15 yards behind me for about 150 yards popping its jaws and all I had was a recurve bow and a folding knife. In 5 years on our new lease I have not seen any bears but one was seen by one of our members.