Bear Pit Thread About Bears.

#101
Picture would have been unrecognizable if that had been my hand holding the gun (very fuzzy from shaking). Probably could have "smelled" the picture as well.
 
#102
At my old place in south central PA had a *about* 400 lb black fall thru the wooden ft porch and get stuck.
Had to 44 mag him before he tore up the porch too bad, gave the meat to a shelter place thing.

Up in NorCal in the Trinity area had apple trees in the yard, huge maybe 500+ lb sow would go after the apples on the ground....that had rotted and fermented and were thereby alcoholic.
She would eat them till she was so drunk she would pass out....then wake up with the runs :/
Bar shat everywhere.....and since our house was in the woods....well, there ya go.
Still, fun to watch a drunken bear I kid you not.

Been charged by griz twice.
Once about 50 miles north of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories hadta kilt it with a 338/378 mag. About 900lbs.
Once on the Kenai, he took 3 rounds 300WbyMag and 5 rounds 454 Casull to put down. Squared 10ft and weighed just over 1100 lbs.
 
#103

Appears he was using a Sporterized 1903 Springfield, nice.

I learned that bears are attracted to crow feathers, I hunted the same properties for 15 years and never saw a bear. The one year I shot a crow at 300 yards the day before rifle season and decided to put the feather in my suppressor cover.

I killed the first bear I’d ever seen while hunting the next morning and then the second day I played hide and go seek with another pair of bears on the walk back to my stand. Took the feather out and I have not seen a bear since.

 
#105

Well I did kill a buck that morning too so it was kind of like a fairy tale ending.

That one was such a pain in the ass I’m not sure I want another one. It died on the backside of a steep ridge so it took our group over an hour to get it out of the woods then a couple more hours were spent waiting for the neighbors to come see it and take it to the check station.

Since this was during prime time opening day of deer season, I was happy I got it but I kinda felt bad that everyone was helping me with the bear instead getting to hunt themselves. Plus it was expensive, this was pre Covid and it still cost me $1,400 bucks for the rug and skull. After talking to the taxidermist based on his price increases it would probably be over $2,000 now.

I also found out that it is apparently common practice to shoot them in the ass with a shotgun after they are getting into the trash as mine was peppered with birdshot.

And the paws without skin? They look like hands, weirdest god damn part of the whole thing.
 
#107
My little Aussie who weighed 37 pounds had a black bear treed in my backyard
Funny to watch when the bear saw me he jumped down and ran
My dog Hunter chased him till the bear was able to jump the chain link fence
 
#110
Eh, I don’t know about that pic. If I was really feeling threatened by a bear, I’d have both hands on the gun and zero hands on the phone trying to take a picture of it. This would be a moment for total concentration and maximum performance, not a one-handed handicapped shot.
 
#112
McNeil River Refuge, Alaska. Go there and it is the Disney land of bears. 51 individual bears counted in a single instance of a 360 view when the sockeye salmon were spawning at the falls. I will say that watching them efficiently strip the skin off a salmon that is still wriggling makes a little chill go through you. The last one with the bear napping was only 20 feet away from us. Never felt threatened even with a bear three feet away. 😎😎😎

 
#113
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#115
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Lets not forget the infamous Owsley 'Bear' Stanley.

en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Owsley_StanleyOwsley Stanley - Wikipedia​


Live albums recorded by Owsley Stanley include Bear's Choice by the Grateful Dead, Old & In the Way by the bluegrass group of the same name, Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969 by the Flying


And of course the song about him.

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#128
This guy comes through my yard about 3 times a year. This pic was a few weeks ago.


This guy tracked me for about 170yds while I was bowhunting elk


This 6yr old boar was too pretty to pass up. Plus my daughter insisted I shoot him, she spotted him on the mountain side before I did.
 
#142
Even the little bastards are destructive!

2 days after these pics, my wife and I had meniscus surgeries, her left and my right. The next day, we took my RZR out to check my camera and found this. Shoulda seen the 2 of us trying to put it back up, each on 1 leg! :ROFLMAO:




 
#143
And people have died getting struck by lightning shit happens. Fuck I had factory ammo blow a gun up (s&b). I didn’t stop shooting. Just cuase it happened to that one guy that one time doesn’t mean their not scaredy cats. I’ve had does attack me, and I don’t think I’m outa line calling them scaredy cats
 
#147
How about a little story?

On September 11, 2001, when the rest of the world was watching airplanes fly into the World Trade Center, the City of Springfield, Missouri was using dynamite to widen a road.

They had already laid their charges, so they decided to go ahead and blow em.

The explosion opened a hole, which they discovered was actually a cave. Upon further exploration, they discovered that the cave was about 2000 feet long and EXTREMELY old.

They actually opened the back end; the entrance was over the hill by the creek and had silted in ages ago... Cave experts were called in and cataloged the yooj numbers of animal, bird, reptile, whatever, remains of species of stuff you'd never think would be found in a cave.

They found fossilized bear bones, fossilized bear shit, from the short-faced bear, a species that has been extinct for thousands of years. They found what looked like fresh bear footprints in the still wet clay. They found where the bear was sleeping. They found fresh-looking pig tracks, and discovered where the bear had ambushed the pigs inside the cave. One pig did a faceplant in the wet clay and that is still visible.

I hope this is OK to post here:

 
#148
One thing that always surprises me is that people are scared of bears but think a cow moose with a calf is cute. That cute moose will make a greasy spot out of you for simply standing there looking at her. Moose in deep snow can run just fine and have no need for snow shoes.
 
#150
Bears aren't too far off from humans. My 2 interactions are as follows.

Saw a bunch of Pandas at the Columbus Zoo when I was 16. Interesting fact, they liked to jack off as much as I did at the time.

Gas station the next town over had a Brown Bear in a cage out front. Damn thing ate around 2-3 dozen ice cream cones per day during the summer. Just like myself, it was a sucker for a plain vanilla in a #40 joy cone.

Always wanted to go toe to toe with one, just like Davey Crockett. Guess I'll have to settle for an Orangutan at the County Fair...
 
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