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Baiting Help
Topic Started: Sep 22 2010, 09:54 PM (472 Views)
onmedic
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hey guys, i'm thinking i'm going to give baiting a try in the haliburton area next season. I'm looking for all the advice i can get on the actual drum. Is metal better than the plastic? how do you secure the lid? What size holes, how many and what size. Any help would be great, pictures even better.

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Well i think it boils down to preferance on what a person uses and what he has to do to make things work.

I travel 1 1/2 hours to my baiting area so running up 2-3 times a week is out of the question. Over the years I have played with barrels to come up with something that works for me. I like steel barrels and chain them to trees and allowing enough food so that the bear have to work to get it and allow the barrel to last a week until I get back up to bait or replenish the barrel.

The holes I use are 7/8 inch but I'm going to go back to 1 in holes and add one more as I have 6 holes in the top half only allowing the bait to come out when the barrel is flipped over and worked back and forth.

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As you can see in the pic above the lid has a large clamp style lid and is easy to take off and rebait.

When setup at the tree I only give enough chain to allow the barrel to fall over and roll. This keeps the barrel in front of the stand without going around the tree and having bad shots.

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If the bear is to small then he will have to wait for a largeer one to flip it for him

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A 45 gal barrel is a good indicator of how to size a good bear as they say that 400 lbs of Luquid fills a 45 gal barrel

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When everything comes together and success is at the end proud hunters like this one remembers the hunt for years to come

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Hope that helps and I know the others will have their secrets that they use and it should help us all even if we have our own ways too...
 
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thanks Adrain some good advice there,l'm sure that will help a lot of people.
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onmedic
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Very good advice adrian. I've hunted alot of years over bait but a totally different baiting style. I think the drum is by far the best way to do it.
Did you make up the lid lock? Where would i even start looking for a steel drum? any ideas?
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I use a plastic truck gas tank. Tied it to a fallen tree with clothes line. The tank is long and slender so I can ram food down into it and only cubs can fit their heads in and the big bears have to hand feed themselves. 50lb of bait will almost a week if I can keep it tight and the bears can't flip it, thats with a few smaller bears hitting it daily.

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As many of you know I used Adrians method also this year and it obviously worked for me also!
Great topic!
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onmedic
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What sort of businesses use steel drums?
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Sep 24 2010, 04:44 PM
What sort of businesses use steel drums?
Head into an indrustral area steel drums are still common. Vinigar plants still have them too...
 
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Everything Adrian said works for me as well BUT,,,,,,

I'm a plastic guy,,,, I feel plastic is more forgiving and has a rebound effect so its harder for them too break them or the chain.

End resault the system works awesome !!!!!!

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HI MEDIC
When i did a lot of bear hunting a few years ago, i used 45 gallon steel drums, with the
lids cut in half and welded on to keep the water out . chain them to a tree or the bears
will roll them back to your vechicle . ... so you can rebait it for them of course.
happened to me twice.
the steel also shows the scratch and claw marks real good.
the barrel is also helpful in guessing the weight of a bear as a 200 lb bear will go
just into the barrel.
great for deciding to shoot or not.
you can put a lot of timmys donuts in a barrel back at the back of the barrel so the
bear has to reach in with his paws to draw them out and YOU MY FRIEND GET A PERFECT
SHOT EVERY TIME. ..
Good luck .
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onmedic
Sep 23 2010, 05:30 PM
I think the drum is by far the best way to do it.
Did you make up the lid lock?
Where would i even start looking for a steel drum? any ideas?
Barrels are easy to find!!!
Look at kijiji.

http://ontario.kijiji.ca/f-storage-barrels-Classifieds-W0QQKeywordZstorageQ20barrelsQQisSearchFormZtrue


I like the idea of cutting a hole in the lid big enough so the bear can stick his head in.
Can't hear or see you draw your bow!
Edited by Ont_Excal, Sep 30 2010, 09:55 PM.
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Sep 30 2010, 09:52 PM
onmedic
Sep 23 2010, 05:30 PM
I think the drum is by far the best way to do it.
Did you make up the lid lock?
Where would i even start looking for a steel drum? any ideas?
Barrels are easy to find!!!
Look at kijiji.

http://ontario.kijiji.ca/f-storage-barrels-Classifieds-W0QQKeywordZstorageQ20barrelsQQisSearchFormZtrue


I like the idea of cutting a hole in the lid big enough so the bear can stick his head in.
Can't hear or see you draw your bow!
i like that idea as well if i lived where i hunt. Unfortunatley the bait has to last about two weeks. A bear could empty that out in a hurry i think. I have to keep that in mind.
Thanks for mentioning Kijiji. forgot all about that.
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