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Westside bears all gone
« on: October 24, 2013, 09:09:34 PM »
Have not seen any real nice westside bears lately, have they all disappeared?
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Re: Westside bears all gone
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2013, 09:13:31 PM »
I'm not seeing any around northbend.

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Re: Westside bears all gone
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2013, 09:26:57 PM »
I missed one today, probably a tad farther shot than I should have taken. Glad I missed as it was down at the bottom of the deepest canyon I could find  :chuckle:

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Re: Westside bears all gone
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2013, 09:35:08 PM »
Yeah...for real.....wish I knew of a huge bear down......that would be so cool if there was a ginourmous bruin down.

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Re: Westside bears all gone
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2013, 06:07:25 AM »
Have not seen any real nice westside bears lately, have they all disappeared?
what makes you say that?  Couldn't be I just got home at 5:15 in the morning all bloody.

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Re: Westside bears all gone
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2013, 06:37:05 AM »
I still see them in my yard every so often.
Wife saw one last week.
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Re: Westside bears all gone
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2013, 07:30:59 AM »
Have not seen any real nice westside bears lately, have they all disappeared?
what makes you say that?  Couldn't be I just got home at 5:15 in the morning all bloody.
Serial killer?? :dunno:
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Re: Westside bears all gone
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2013, 08:57:35 AM »
Have not seen any real nice westside bears lately, have they all disappeared?

Yes... the Western WA. Black bear population has now gone extinct.  Luckily the WDFW has outlawed hunting them until numbers improve.  Black bear from Maine will be trucked in and distributed throughout the state.

Reinstatement of the hunting season will be determined by the number of breeding pairs.  To constitute a breeding pair there has to be video evidence of them breeding in a monogamous relationship.  If that never occurs then any bears you see are a figment of your imagination and since they are imaginary there is no need to reinstate a hunting season.

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Re: Westside bears all gone
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2013, 09:02:03 AM »
Well.....I do NOT....I say DO NOT..........have a pic ready to go about a bear that MAY have been shot at 4:48 yesterday on a cetain HILL by a person I MAY OR MAY NOT know............(not D-Rock, seriously it isn't)...........but I'm NOT SAYING I DO.

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Re: Westside bears all gone
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2013, 10:33:55 AM »
Well.....I do NOT....I say DO NOT..........have a pic ready to go about a bear that MAY have been shot at 4:48 yesterday on a cetain HILL by a person I MAY OR MAY NOT know............(not D-Rock, seriously it isn't)...........but I'm NOT SAYING I DO.
Another dink with milk on its lips i'm sure.....
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Re: Westside bears all gone
« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2013, 10:35:43 AM »
I wouldn't know..............OR WOULD I?

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Re: Westside bears all gone
« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2013, 10:43:44 AM »
I wouldn't know..............OR WOULD I?

Where's the story boys? :chuckle:
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Re: Westside bears all gone
« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2013, 10:55:25 AM »
Story....what story? 

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Re: Westside bears all gone
« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2013, 10:56:04 AM »
 :peep: 

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Re: Westside bears all gone
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2013, 10:58:27 AM »
Story, we don't need no stinkin Story......
We want pictures.........and then a story if there is one....or not....
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