The company I work for is getting ready to make a couple bear hunting/baiting products. I need to know who are the bear hunters on this forum so I can do some brain picking about whether these products would be useful.
One product would a similar to a backpack for hauling and distributing used cooking oil for baiting with a valve for controlling the amount of oil being distributed. Would eliminate hauling the 5 gallon buckets full of oil to the woods.
The second product would be used to hauling a dead bear out of the woods either with a four wheeler or or a single person could get a bear out on their own without pulling or dragging.
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Bunny are you talking about something like this? If so they work great. I helped my drag out his elk with one similar to this one. Saved us alot of packing. The only thing that would make it better would be brakes.
We bait 55 gallon drums with Dead salmon carcasses...I do Not understand Spreading Oil around as it would be considered Illegal in Alaska to Oil the ground...with any kind of Oil, besides , you want a Bear bait station in one open location so as to be able to watch it from a stand or Blind. The Bears can smell stuff a mile away...They are like sharks on dry land.
Rich , the Bear hunter !
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Bunny are you talking about something like this? If so they work great. I helped my drag out his elk with one similar to this one. Saved us alot of packing. The only thing that would make it better would be brakes.
No, the company I work for manufactures things out of flexible plastic sheeting in different thicknesses. This would be something similar to a sled but would roll up into a backpack. Animal would be enclosed in it so there would be no blood leakage in your vehicle when hauling it. If you clean the animal yourself, there is a sorbent pad inside and you open it up, hang the animal above it and clean it, then throw away or burn the sorbent with the yukkies in it. Hose it off, put in a new pad and your ready to go again. I don't want to give away too much so there is not competitor issues.
Mooseman, I know nothing about bear, we don't have them in Kansas. I was talking to a writer at Bear Hunting magazine, and he said that bear hunters in their area raid restaurants to get their used cooking oil, said bears love it. They are not dumping massive amounts of it, but leaving a trail of it to the baiting station.
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I too have seen some of the drag sleds out there in my research. The ones I saw would rip or tear easily and would probably only be good for one use. A person would still have to walk backwards and drag it out of the woods, which is hard on your back. It also, if hooked behind a four wheeler would roll because of the way the straps were hooked to it. When I came up with this idea, it was to drag deer out of the woods. It should handle up to 300 lbs, which could include deer, bear, several coyotes, etc. depending on what you hunted. Making it bloodless was because I know several people using SUVs to haul critters out and they were always worried about getting blood on their carpet. So I took a bunch of ideas and came up with this.
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You guys will be the first to know. The drawings are with the engineers right now. With me being the only girl redneck in this whole company, I got them making gun cleaning mats and selling Mossy Oak shooting glasses too. It's pretty fun now.
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at one of the leases I hunt at they dig a hole about a foot x foot and pour old cooking oil in it. the hogs go nuts over it, they eat it, wallow in it and track it all over the woods for more hogs to follow the scent back to the stand. after a couple of weeks the oil is gone. it is eaten up or soaks into the sand where the hogs keep digging for it. eventually the hole gets pretty big, the pigs even eat the sand. when I used to bait for bear in Michigan's u.p., the best bait was old bread or doughnuts. bears can smell them miles away and they are much easier to handle (and easier on the nose) than rotten fish or meat.
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About the cooking oil. Want it break down and not harm the enviroment ? Cooking oil sounds like an excellent idea.
Bunny does your company you work for have a web site ? Where I can just go look at there products ?
Those products aren't up yet, they are still in the engineer stage, but my company does make environmental products and is a streamlight flashlight distributor.
