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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: Mudman on September 27, 2012, 07:10:05 PM

Title: Grizzly or black bear???
Post by: Mudman on September 27, 2012, 07:10:05 PM: Large brown bear spotted at close range chasing a black bear. Weight estimated at 600lbs by someone familiar with large bears. This is the paw print. What ya think?
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Post by: dscubame on September 27, 2012, 07:12:18 PM: looks like a wounded right front leg.
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Post by: CAMPMEAT on September 27, 2012, 07:27:34 PM: Grizz, way too big for a black bear. Plus, the WDFW has spotted grizz near Mudmans place in Ferry County.
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Post by: Mudman on September 27, 2012, 08:08:00 PM: Thats good to know! Thanks campmeat :tup: :chuckle: Wonder if gizz will start eating wolves? :whoo:
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Post by: CAMPMEAT on September 27, 2012, 08:10:55 PM: Quote from: Mudman on September 27, 2012, 08:08:00 PM
Thats good to know! Thanks campmeat :tup: :chuckle: Wonder if gizz will start eating wolves? :whoo:

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm !
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Post by: Mudman on September 27, 2012, 08:46:28 PM: :bumpin:
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Post by: coachcw on September 27, 2012, 10:20:02 PM: now that will raise your back hair .
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Post by: Ripper on September 28, 2012, 07:41:00 AM: :yike: When did they start banding Griz toes?
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Post by: mrmoskillz on September 28, 2012, 08:14:46 AM: :yeah: :chuckle:
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Post by: saylean on September 28, 2012, 03:44:52 PM: Hard to tell from the pic, but it looks that maybe the claw marks are extended way out, like they would be on a griz. Cool photo...would have been awesome to see a griz chase a blackie.
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Post by: KenPCPilot on September 30, 2012, 12:56:24 PM: I would lean toward a grizz. I will post a photo soon of a bear I was hunting last week. I was a nice print in soft powdery soil. No toe nail marks for sure and mine was from my finger tips to wrist. It looks from the photo I see nails which generally indicates a grizzly print. (another reason to always carry spray/heavy firepower even out scouting. Thanks for sharing
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Post by: Mudman on September 30, 2012, 02:04:11 PM: Ya we think grizz. Property borders nat. forest and the ridge bear seems to like has no roads anymore and nobody seems to go there as it is pretty steep. At the bottom of it theres a deer carcass every hundred yards. Poop with bone fragments as well. Bear has been spotted here around july thru sept. then seems to move on.
Title: Re: Grizzly or black bear???
Post by: dscubame on September 30, 2012, 07:22:20 PM: Quote from: saylean on September 28, 2012, 03:44:52 PM
Hard to tell from the pic, but it looks that maybe the claw marks are extended way out, like they would be on a griz. Cool photo...would have been awesome to see a griz chase a blackie.

:tup: Absolutely, the griz have claws that arc out a great deal where the black bear are relatively straight / slightly moon shaped. I would say griz from what is apparent in the photo.