Fall bear season, both rifle and archery, runs nearly the entire month of September while the bears are spending most all of their time feeding on acorns and berries, getting fat for the up coming winter. While bear tags can be obtained during the later big game rifle seasons, you must already have a license for either Elk or Mule deer. 

The prime time to hunt bear in the areas we hunt is no doubt in September.  With much of our property being covered in shin oak, the acorn are always more than plentiful and so are the bears.  The hunter can expect multiply opportunity at large trophy black bear.  For the hunter looking for a little verity, more than half of the bears on our properties are color phase bear, having either a beautiful dark chocolate, blonde, or rusty cinnamon colored coat.  No matter what the color, for the past three years the bears we have taken have all measured over 6 feet and hunters have enjoyed a nearly 100% opportunity rate on good mature trophy black bear.

During September we do primarily all of our hunting either sitting over water holes or glassing large meadows with fallen timbers.  It is hot this time of year and the bears frequent the waters holes to drink and cool off. We set our stands according to trail cam photos at the water holes most visited by the bears and on the travel routes to and from the meadow and feeding areas.  If a hunter has the patients they can expect to see several different bear, generally many of which will be color phased, in a days sit over a water hole.  Wether hunting from on of our brushed in ground blinds or from the elevated perch of a ladder stand, our bear hunts provide up close excitement that will get even the most experienced hunters heart pounding.

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