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Offline acnewman55

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Saw a big bear this weekend
« on: June 23, 2014, 10:38:49 AM »
Watched a big black bear feeding in a meadow at 75 yards from our campsite Saturday night. It was too dark for quality photographs, but the next morning I tracked his movements from the previous night and got shots of a print in the snow, and a fresh pile of his scat.

For reference, this print is pictured with an FNX 40 that has a 7.4" length, and the gun is sitting about 1.5" closer to the camera than the print.  The gun actually fit inside the depression of the print. I wish I'd had a measuring tape - though I realize a print isn't always indicative of size.

His scat was also by far the biggest pile we encountered over the weekend, out of about 24 piles on the 7-mile hike into camp.

I haven't a seen a ton of bears, but this was by far the biggest.  I'm hoping he'll stick around until August 15th!






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Re: Saw a big bear this weekend
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2014, 01:47:22 PM »
I'm looking forward to seeing your pics with him this fall.
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Re: Saw a big bear this weekend
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2014, 04:51:35 PM »
I'm going to be going back in sometime next month to setup a trail-cam.

Hopefully he sticks around!

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Re: Saw a big bear this weekend
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2014, 11:36:30 PM »
Nice looking bear dude. Let me know if you want company when you go in with the trail cameras.

 


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