Interested in bear hunt

[Jayt22]

Question: How far would i have to go to get a bear hunt when i live in north texas? I don’t want to go to Canada ,trying to find something closer. Tia

[rladner]

oklahoma

I was on a bear/deer lease for 2 years just north of Broken Bow. Not huge bears, but I shot one with my bow

[Jayt22]

Ya it don’t have to be a **** grizzly bear! So beings it was a lease did you bait for them or just wait for them to stroll in?

[rladner]

Ya it don’t have to be a **** grizzly bear! So beings it was a lease did you bait for them or just wait for them to stroll in?

baited. That was the fun part. I had already taken 2 black bear in Canada prior so I was just enjoying the entire experience of picking a spot, setting up the bait station and watching the pictures until season opened. You better be in the stand on opening day cause you have about a 2 or 3 day window before the bear will get wise to people in the woods and stop showing up. I never hunted deer there, just bear. I kept my deer lease to hunt whitetail. It was only about 3 hours from DFW so not a bad drive to check out the bait station every few weeks. The lease was surprisingly cheap as well.

[Jayt22]

And may i ask how you found this “bear lease”? Like what site?

[asu-indian]

NMex. I've killed three out there (recovered two). Stayed at the Inn of the Mountain Gods.

[bowhunterhelm]

Not far, New Mexico has good bear hunting. I went with New Mexico Hunting Adventure last year. It was a hound hunt, there were 6 of us in camp and we all got a nice bear.