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Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« on: May 19, 2021, 08:59:41 AM »
found this up in the Kelly Unit last week. 

Massive tracks.

The shells in the photo are 7mm Rem Mag and when I measured at home, shells in this position were a bit more than 6 inches across

I did some editing and the tracks were older so claw marks are hard to make out, but I think the blue circles are where the claws were.
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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2021, 09:02:48 AM »
Ayup, they're in there

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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2021, 09:05:10 AM »
some more tracks and a ground squirrel hill that was destroyed (with tracks all around)
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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2021, 09:05:35 AM »
and a poor photo of a rear track
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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2021, 09:07:21 AM »
Musta been on the east side of the unit

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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2021, 09:11:10 AM »
Kinda in the middle
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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2021, 09:14:31 AM »
Sure looks like a huge paw. I'd lean towards grizzly.

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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2021, 09:15:30 AM »
No doubt its Grizzly

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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2021, 09:32:46 AM »
No doubt its Grizzly
Oh ya, no doubts whatsoever.

It's grizz 100%


Wait till you come across track still seeping in water Rob.   

Pucker a bit lol

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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2021, 09:33:37 AM »
Sure looks like grizz, that straight line under the toes proves it.
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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2021, 11:37:25 AM »
give it a decade or less, they'll be moving south and all over 49 degrees north/mt spokane area. theyre working their way into washington from idaho/montana and canada

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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2021, 11:53:54 AM »
No doubt its Grizzly
Oh ya, no doubts whatsoever.

It's grizz 100%


Wait till you come across track still seeping in water Rob.   

Pucker a bit lol

Is it weird that I kinda want to experience that?
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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #12 on: May 19, 2021, 12:17:07 PM »
Good on ya!


I know there's guys with *a lot* more encounters that I on here, my closest encounter is meeting one on a corner in a road with blowdown so thick it'd be nearly impossible to get off the road and go around.

He roared super loud (I mean LOUD AF) and buggered out, but I didn't know if he was still there or not, I had no choice but go and see.

I didn't see him, think he got my wind.

I hunted his bedroom area for a few days, took hair off his scratching/territorial posts, he didn't seem to roam all that far really, figured he'd be 30 miles away, but I kept running into fresh sign. 

Elk hunting sucked there, so we moved on lol


I've seen plenty off in the distance, but that was my closest encounter while not in a vehicle.

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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #13 on: May 19, 2021, 12:27:14 PM »
give it a decade or less, they'll be moving south and all over 49 degrees north/mt spokane area. theyre working their way into washington from idaho/montana and canada

 There are several in 49 already, I’ve seen trail cam pics from from friends.
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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #14 on: May 19, 2021, 12:51:16 PM »
give it a decade or less, they'll be moving south and all over 49 degrees north/mt spokane area. theyre working their way into washington from idaho/montana and canada

 There are several in 49 already, I’ve seen trail cam pics from from friends.

In 2009 I was told about several confirmed sightings off of flowery trail by reputable source.. have not seen any in Washington myself but definitely are around

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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #15 on: May 19, 2021, 01:10:12 PM »
There have been grizz in that unit for years. My dad saw one, I've seen two, and a warden told me that he saw five at one time in a field in the spring one year when he was checking out a report.
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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #16 on: May 19, 2021, 06:12:25 PM »
Good on ya!


I know there's guys with *a lot* more encounters that I on here, my closest encounter is meeting one on a corner in a road with blowdown so thick it'd be nearly impossible to get off the road and go around.

He roared super loud (I mean LOUD AF) and buggered out, but I didn't know if he was still there or not, I had no choice but go and see.

I didn't see him, think he got my wind.

I hunted his bedroom area for a few days, took hair off his scratching/territorial posts, he didn't seem to roam all that far really, figured he'd be 30 miles away, but I kept running into fresh sign. 

Elk hunting sucked there, so we moved on lol


I've seen plenty off in the distance, but that was my closest encounter while not in a vehicle.

Now that is a close encounter!
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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #17 on: May 20, 2021, 07:32:48 AM »
First bear I seen there last year was a grizzly.  It was by my camp. Seen wired trucks several times like they were watching it.
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Re: Pretty sure this is a Grizzly track
« Reply #18 on: May 20, 2021, 09:30:59 PM »
give it a decade or less, they'll be moving south and all over 49 degrees north/mt spokane area. theyre working their way into washington from idaho/montana and canada

They’ve been here a very very long time.  Nothing new to NE wa.   Maybe new to Kelly area?
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