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Re: grizzlies
« Reply #30 on: August 17, 2010, 10:14:14 AM »
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Never have seen one myself. Wouldn't mind if it stayed that way.

Couple buddies hunted outside of Cody, WY a few years back. Was a light dusting of snow and they were hiking around looking for mulies. Circled around after a while and came back across their tracks to find grizz tracks following theirs. They looked around, didn't see it, but certainly wanted to get out of that area and quick.

I've read accounts of wounded grizzlies doing that.  Read one guides account of how they tracked one wounded bear so far they just had to go back to base camp, threatening weather etc...they came back the next day to where they had stopped and picked up the trail. That Bear had gone another 40 yards and pulled a fish hook-J they found where it had been laying in wait just up a 15 foot slope, a few yards into the brush over the clearing they tracked it into.  If they had gone much farther the night before they wouldn't have had a chance...I feel pretty lucky to have seen the 7 I have in the Brooks, some from only 50 yards.  And I'll always laugh about the one that caught me peeing and ran off like a crazed race horse..

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Re: grizzlies
« Reply #31 on: August 17, 2010, 12:19:45 PM »
Didn't a couple of kids get nabbed for killing a grizzly because they thought it was a blackie? It was only a year or two ago. I'd say thats a pretty good indication that there are, or there was at least one in Washington.  :dunno:

Thats already been answered in this post...

Really? Guess I missed that. I'll be more thorough next time.  :hello:

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Re: grizzlies
« Reply #32 on: August 17, 2010, 12:39:17 PM »
Three years ago in the selkirks I had a grizz take an elk from me on a archery hunt . five miles in by myself . i felt like I wasn't the top of the food chain. I will never go back in there without a can of spray.

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Re: grizzlies
« Reply #33 on: August 17, 2010, 01:05:50 PM »
I know a guy that saw a sow and 2 cubs (griz) on the Little Pend Orielle wildlife area near colville 2 yrs ago, during archery deer.

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Re: grizzlies
« Reply #34 on: August 17, 2010, 04:34:39 PM »
There are pics (a few years old) at the Darrington Ranger Station of one walking down a dirt road.

I also know two credible witnesses claiming to have seen one (two separate instances) way back in the sticks not far from Rockport. As well as I know them, I don't doubt it one bit.

They have signs up on sauk about grizz, wonder how many are out there.
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Re: grizzlies
« Reply #35 on: August 17, 2010, 11:13:01 PM »
I don't know where it comes from that F&W will not admit there are grizzlies in Washington. I have had them tell me about them and where. One place in the NE corner they said they had numerous radio collar signals. The bears do drift back and forth between Idaho and Canada along the border, but I have been told there are resident bears.  The number isn't great but they are out there.

In the late 90's a young grizzly was videoed just north of Deer Park. Rumor has it that it was poached. There are always many more rumors than facts.It is no fun saying I saw a large Black bear, always more exciting to say it might have been a grizzly.  The next person says it was a grizzly.

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Re: grizzlies
« Reply #36 on: August 18, 2010, 08:36:46 AM »
THey deserve respect, and they get it.  :)

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Re: grizzlies
« Reply #37 on: August 18, 2010, 08:52:27 AM »
go hang out between muskegon lake and phoebe's.

I have seen some in there, nothing big.....5.6-6ft, but undeniably grizz

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Re: grizzlies
« Reply #38 on: August 18, 2010, 09:00:27 AM »
THat indeed is a great place to find one.

 


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