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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: igotbigbulls on December 12, 2013, 07:29:45 AM

Title: Big Bear Track?
Post by: igotbigbulls on December 12, 2013, 07:29:45 AM: Size 13 boot. Whats the theroy on this track? This is in central Washington.
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Post by: quadrafire on December 12, 2013, 07:32:59 AM: I'd say turn around and walk the other way. Looks like a beast
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Post by: jasnt on December 12, 2013, 07:38:58 AM: It does look like a bear track(back foot). I'd head the other way as well :)
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Post by: YoterHunter on December 12, 2013, 06:54:44 PM: It's ether a really big bear . Or big foot. So I would turn around and run not walk. :twocents:
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Post by: Fowlweather25 on December 12, 2013, 07:09:46 PM: Definitley a bear
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Post by: Fowlweather25 on December 12, 2013, 07:11:09 PM: Not as big as it looks either, you can see the toes from the front paw track in the front of the rear track, making it look longer than it is.
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Post by: duckmen1 on December 12, 2013, 07:11:22 PM: Bigfoot :yike:
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Post by: sebek556 on December 12, 2013, 07:34:59 PM: did you see any other tracks? They used to makes kids bear foot snow shoes.... :dunno:
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Post by: rasbo on December 12, 2013, 07:37:24 PM: Quote from: Fowlweather25 on December 12, 2013, 07:11:09 PM
Not as big as it looks either, you can see the toes from the front paw track in the front of the rear track, making it look longer than it is.
:tup:
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Post by: wildweeds on December 12, 2013, 07:43:23 PM: I've seen bear tracks that big before up a little east of Tonasket,I wear a 12 and the tracks were bigger than my feet and fresh in fresh snow.I was on high alert when I ran across a pile o poo that hadn't seized up yet.Saw a Lynx in that same general area of the mountain.Was 30 years ago and being a whipper snapper early teen and on my own in the woods,I made a hard left turn and up and over the mountain and down the otherside to grandpa's truck I went.
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Post by: jason stevens on December 12, 2013, 08:11:10 PM: Track it down and get some pics
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Post by: Vulcan on December 12, 2013, 08:26:27 PM: Quote from: jason stevens on December 12, 2013, 08:11:10 PM
Track it down and get some pics

:yeah: :mgun: :cue:
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Post by: Kc_Kracker on December 21, 2013, 11:59:12 AM: grizz? if thats a BB damn thats a trophy id say :o
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Post by: Eli346 on December 21, 2013, 12:30:22 PM: My guess would be grizz. They're out and about more than we might think. I found a track like that in the high Cascades and I was definitely thinking grizzly.
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Post by: DeerThug on December 21, 2013, 05:10:02 PM: I dont see claws so has to be Bigfoot, besides bears are hibernating now :chuckle:
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Post by: Cap.Silver on December 21, 2013, 05:50:10 PM: I'd think that is pis..d o.f black bear ........walk away quickly .
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Post by: Okanagan on December 21, 2013, 07:04:54 PM: Quote from: Fowlweather25 on December 12, 2013, 07:11:09 PM
Not as big as it looks either, you can see the toes from the front paw track in the front of the rear track, making it look longer than it is.

Good eye. But I think the extra extension on the toes or second set of toes is a mark left from the claws out ahead of the toes rather than where he stepped on his own track. It looks to me that the track shows claws about half way between what I'd expect on a black bear or a grizzly. :chuckle: :dunno:

Below is a photo of a grizzly track from the Canadian Rockies, interior bear away from the coast. It is a front foot, walking left to right. On the left is the pad, then the toes in the middle, and then well in front of the toes are the blunt tipped claw marks, rght of center in the pic.

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi152.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fs199%2Flokanagan%2Ftracks%2FIMG_1263_zpsca5f8b49.jpg&hash=c9a26e787e5bb1400f34182ca4dfe3471a2e94ce) (http://s152.photobucket.com/user/lokanagan/media/tracks/IMG_1263_zpsca5f8b49.jpg.html)

Grizz claws are curved much less than black bear claws and extend out in front farther rather than curve down closely in front of the toes. Grizz claws are curved about like a man's fingers when relaxed, and black bear claws curve about 90 degrees. Grizz claws are often worn back from digging to be fairly short and stubby, while black bear claws usually show as sharp points when the bear is walking in mud.

I have some other grizzly track photos front and back, but no hind foot tracks with clear claws showing. Don't have a black bear track photo handy to compare.
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Post by: JM on December 22, 2013, 12:34:19 PM: That looks like an Asian Sun Bear track to me? Sometimes people really make me laugh
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Post by: CAMPMEAT on December 30, 2013, 07:34:54 PM: Not a grizz. The back of the toes on a grizz are straight across from the front of the pad. Black bears are curved.