Bear sign

Glad to hear you got some fuzzies your way. Let em go a few years and next thing you know they take over. Been trying to rope a certain fella into helping me thin the herd....no luck.....   

One carry-on bag will barely hold it.

I (we) don't want them around. Seems the predators are overrunning things here, thus why I am dusting off the traps and gonna hit it hard this fall. FIL and his crew have had several bears at their bait sites for several years now, maybe 10-12mi as the crow flies. Some of them are BIG! I have his pictures I'll try to post them.

Here are a few pictures. For perspective the bait bucket is half of a 55gal drum. The pictures are from 2 different sites probably 5mi from each other. I cropped the pictures to be able to post them, but they are all within the last 20-25 days. I am pretty sure these are 4 different bears. The big boys are monsters, I would guess 300lbs+. There have been no sow with cubs seen yet this year at these sites. 

d4570 wrote: DANG!!!!!

The under 400 bears are usually a problem, big ones are usually smart enough to keep a distance and have learned that a free meal has a price.

That bigger one probably goes 300-350. Bears can get huge. Locally we have had some in the 7-800 pound range. The big ones have learned that when they hear the shots of guys sighting in in the fall, it's time to hole up or get holed up yourself. To get that big they have to avoid getting shot for a couple decades.....most don't make it. I hold out for pics and a success story of your hunt!

Slippery little buggers! The fuzzies were probably there for a few years before the rumors started. Same thing happened here 30 years ago. Sure there were stories of people  occasionally spotting sign or even a glimpse,(bigfeets as well), but then it seemed all of a sudden there were many and everyone was seeing them. Posted up a pic a few years ago of a 700 pounder they shot a few miles down the road. Gish and Fame fella said he tagged the bear 25 years earlier at 50 pounds, still had the tag. Neighbor lady when I was a youngen said she got spooked out of the huckleberry patch a few times over the years by bears. We all thought she was nuts because nobody had ever seen a bear in the area before. That was the mid 70's, ten years later, TADA!!! we have a season.

I agree with you guys. The soft feet of a bear does not make it easy to see it's sign, unless it did what I saw, walk right down the middle of a muddy road. I figured they had to be here, but for as much time as I spend in the woods, I saw zero, ziltch, nada for anything resembling a bear. I have never had an undieing urge to shoot a bear, but I will give it a shot close to home. But, road sightings on and off for the last 5-6yrs here close make for something. Hopefully I get some pictures from our new bait sites!!

One of two things here as bears are not stupid. He either thought you might be able too take him, or the other way around and you would be too tough and gamey to have as a snack.