Film Your Bear Hunt

Bear from one of our Wisconsin trail cameras.

With Pine Ridge Archery President, Jim Broberg finally drawing a Wisconsin bear tag after 7 years of applying, I have had some familiar memories of my previous bear hunts come back up. 
There may not be a better game animal to film than bear.  Why? It is simple.  Most bear hunts happen over bait.  Of course this excludes spot and stalk and dog hunts.  When hunting over bait, your focus is pretty well concentrated over the bait area. Therefore, your camera can be set there as well.
When filming your own hunt (or even filming someone else) it is always a challenge to be set up with the camera pointed in the direction that the game will approach from.  In the wild, it is difficult to guess the exact location they will come from, but over bait, it is usually safe to bet that they will go to the bait once they arrive.
This is where your camera should be pointed while you wait.  When you film your hunts, your camera should be mounted on a camera support, like the Pro-Bow-Cam from Pine Ridge Archery so the shot is steady and if you are by yourself you can capture your shot on film without holding the camera. 
Now, once your bear arrives, your camera is already pointed in the direction of where you will shoot and all you have to do is hit record.  If you hunt bear over bait, you need to be filming your hunt.  Not only does it preserve the memory of the hunt, it will allow you to rewind the tape and review your shot placement on the bear before you track it.  It is a great feeling to capture the shot on video, and a bear hunt is a great one to find success with.

Till next time, I'm rolling!
Brian