when a bear is in the area your huntin deer are not.. they scare deer away???? i dont have a ton of expirece with bears..
They coexist just fine. Deer will simply skirt them but they will share the same areas on a regular basis.
Rob seems to have deer and bear In the same area quite frequently. I wouldn't think It would bother the deer much but your not going to see them feeding together by any means either. Edit: You posted as I was typing Rob.
i understand that im not gonna see them feedin together.. that would be wild! but ive been told numerous times that when im on stand an see bears "ya mys well get down an go on home, they jus ran all the deeer outta the area!"....i can see where they might spook deer but not completely run them outta the area im huntin?
Stay in the stand, you'll be fine. Same with wolves. The deer on the right was shot walking down a trail that a wolf had used 5 minutes earlier...
myth 100% on the bears, never have had a problem with bears running whitetails out of an area... wolves on the other hand will run an elk herd out of the area, miles away at times, but whitetails seem to stay.
LOL!! I also say myth. I've glassed my fields in the summer and have seen a bear and deer feeding within 100yds of each other (granted there was a stand of corn separating them).
where I hunt there are bears and deer. I don't think the bears chase the deer away. I have never seen interaction between the two so I'm not sure how they react to each other. I would assume the deer give the bears all the room they want.
Depends on the type of bear... deer tend to shy from these bears more than they would a blackie but they don't run out of the country, they just stay out of harms way.