Colorado Unit 49 bears?

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I’m gonna pull my 49 archery elk tag this year and I was just curious if there were many bears in the unit. I applied for a bear tag just to have it in my pocket but was just wondering if there are many there.


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I’m sure there are bears, will you burn days hunting an elk tag you waited 6+ years to draw to deal with a bear is good question to ask yourself? If you tag out early it would be nice to have to sit the gut pile, but I would view it as kind of a distraction, until you punch your elk tag
 
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I’m sure there are bears, will you burn days hunting an elk tag you waited 6+ years to draw to deal with a bear is good question to ask yourself? If you tag out early it would be nice to have to sit the gut pile, but I would view it as kind of a distraction, until you punch your elk tag

No 100% won’t be messing with a bear unless I kick one in the head. Mostly just wondering if it’s worth staying and sitting a gut pile once I kill a bull.


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Your best and highest chance of getting a bear in there is once you have an elk in the dirt, sit back in camp for a few days, chill, and check on it through the week. Nothing pulls bears in like a dead stinking carcass.

When you're breaking the elk down, keep an eye out for areas you can observe from a distance, or where you will set up if you plan on hunting it. I like being able to see the carcass from a ways and once hit, either sit back and watch, get wind right and move in, or set up on the carcass itself.
 
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Hunted it for elk a few years ago and seen two, both at timberline. I was surprised at how many bear hunters I saw.


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I’m gonna pull my 49 archery elk tag this year and I was just curious if there were many bears in the unit. I applied for a bear tag just to have it in my pocket but was just wondering if there are many there.


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Care to update on your archery elk hunt? and bear in unit 49
 

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People seem to be afraid of doing things on their own these days, I can’t wait till it get to do some hunts near the old family ranch in AZ, it is a lot of fun figuring it out on your own, marking your own maps up and seeing if your ideas were right or not
 
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