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Old November 30, 2013, 09:11 PM   #1
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772 Pound Bear

I read this article on FOX news.com about a hunter who nabbed a very large Black Bear. Almost 800 pounds. That's a lot of bear to be alone with in the woods. It says the bear's skull size may be a record breaker. Thought I would pass it along. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/30...nd-black-bear/
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Old November 30, 2013, 10:29 PM   #2
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and to think I was getting praise for my 250LB black bear... western blackbear and eastern black bear are just two very different animals.
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Old November 30, 2013, 11:51 PM   #3
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WoW!! What a bruiser. I seen blacks weighing in the high 4s close to 5. when I was a kid and thought they were huge. But nothing like this monster. How would you like to see this thing licking your bird feeder some morning?
I wonder how old this big feller is?
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Old December 1, 2013, 01:45 AM   #4
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I believe there was one larger, over eight hundred pounds, taken awhile back in North Carolina.
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Old December 1, 2013, 02:09 AM   #5
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I'm going to re-think about my back packing gun caliber,
Maine and Vermont: 600 pounders
and New Hampshire 500 pounder.

I guess one can run into a "big" bear
anywhere on the East coast.
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Old December 1, 2013, 08:53 AM   #6
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I'm going to re-think about my back packing gun caliber,
Typical black bear anywhere run 200-300 lbs. A 500+ black bear is a rare sight anywhere, but not unheard of. The 800 lb bear killed in NC a few years ago had been supplementing its food by living on a hog farm and getting into some of the hog feed IIRC. I wouldn't be surprised to find that this 772 lb bear had some help with feeding.

A bear doesn't live long enough to get much over 200 lbs by hanging around humans. Virtually all problem bears are 150-200 lb cubs that have recently been ran off by their mothers and are struggling to make it on their own. The big boys are very good at not being seen by humans and rarely bother them.
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Old December 1, 2013, 09:26 AM   #7
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The 300-500 lb bears aren't as uncommon as one thinks
in New England.
Also we have game preserves ("You got the money-We got
the animal") up here and they get sloppy with their containment methods.
So who knows what one will meet in the woods.
I'm thinking of carrying a .357 instead of my .22.
I certainly agree with you,meeting up with
a "nasty" in the woods is very rare but it only
takes one time.
Gonna get an SP101 or something similar.

ron
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Old December 1, 2013, 11:27 AM   #8
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I found myself in between a cub and what im assuming was a bear killed fawn a week ago on state land. It's pretty sobering to hear that it's nearby mother could have been as big as 772 pounds. Good thing I took the single shot
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Old December 2, 2013, 05:23 PM   #9
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WOW, what a beautiful animal and a sweet trophy. It pays off to take time to smell the roses and walk the land.
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Old December 5, 2013, 07:08 AM   #10
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That is a HUGE bear. I have one on my game cam that appear to be 250 to 300....it's truly a very large animal but is dwarfed by that monster. NH does have it's share of large bears, but during kill season the common weight is just under 200. That bear must be old, and is surely eating some high protein off someone's feeder! Giaquir, I'm also in Deerfield. I bow hunt the same property I have pics of a very large bear and don't carry a side arm. They run off before messing with ya.
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Old December 5, 2013, 07:21 AM   #11
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Good lord, I hope he was near a path. There is NO WAY I'd want to try dragging that thing anywhere. Even quartered up it would be a haul.
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Old December 5, 2013, 09:08 AM   #12
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Heard on FOX NEWS two days ago a woman was attacked by a bear in her gated community in Orlando, FL.
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Old December 5, 2013, 10:31 AM   #13
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Brotherbadger, I never even gave thought to how he transported it. You are right. That is a lot of weight to have to haul in the woods!
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Old December 5, 2013, 10:34 AM   #14
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Water-man, that is correct. It was in Longwood on Monday. The woman was badly mauled. I believe they tried to trap the bear but have not been successful yet.
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Old December 5, 2013, 07:05 PM   #15
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Last I heard they had gotten the bear. She should have let the dogs go so the bear would go after them .
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Old December 6, 2013, 12:13 AM   #16
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mete,

You sound like a real dog-lover.
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Old December 6, 2013, 08:00 AM   #17
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Every single year, half dozen or so bears weighing over 500 lbs are taken in Pennsylvania. In many cases, they're problem bears which have been trapped and relocated because of heavy appetite for apples, honey, or too close to settlements. These bears eat a lot of food to grow this large.

Biggest bear I've seen while deer hunting in Perry County weighed approx. 250 lbs or so and it looked big and scary to me. Yet these animals are not armor-plated and are routinely taken with common deer cartridges such as 30-30, 35 Remington, 300 Savage, etc.

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Old December 6, 2013, 09:08 AM   #18
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That is a monster of a bear.

Heaviest bear i ever heard of was killed in Craven county, North Carolina. It weighed 880 pounds.

Then there is Ted:

http://www.bear.org/website/index.ph...d=29&Itemid=56
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Old December 6, 2013, 07:25 PM   #19
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950 to 1000 Pounds!! Wow, better have a fork lift to transport it. That has to be frightening to see if it's coming at you.
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Old December 6, 2013, 10:29 PM   #20
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Hoo, boy! Ted coming after you would be a sure-enough grisly bear!
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Old December 10, 2013, 05:43 AM   #21
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We have several 400-500 lb black bear on the farm I hunt down here. It's getting very common to see them down here.
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Old December 11, 2013, 06:20 PM   #22
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last Saturday was the last day of the weeklong bear season in Charlotte County Virginia , a fellow about six miles from me killed a 728 pound black bear , if you want to see the story look up the\website for WSET channel 13 news in Lynchburg Virginia , he had over a 55 gallon drum of fat on him. It took five men and a tractor to get him out of the woods, there are some VERY big bears here! .......................LOUD
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Old December 11, 2013, 06:37 PM   #23
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"We have several 400-500 lb black bear on the farm I hunt down here. It's getting very common to see them down here."

Yes & they should have a lotto for tags in certain counties
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Old December 17, 2013, 02:28 PM   #24
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The 800 lb bear killed in NC a few years ago had been supplementing its food by living on a hog farm and getting into some of the hog feed IIRC
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Heaviest bear i ever heard of was killed in Craven county, North Carolina. It weighed 880 pounds.
That bear was killed just a few miles from my home
http://www.bear.org/website/index.ph...d=29&Itemid=56
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The heaviest black bear reliably weighed was an 880-pound 10-year-old male killed in Craven County,
He had been raiding the shed where they kept dead hogs to be sent to a rendering plant

I've seen a couple that would probably go over 500 lbs
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Old December 18, 2013, 10:29 AM   #25
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About getting that monster out of the woods.
I have dragged logs with my ATV (Honda 420 4x4) that I would estimate at #1000. I would think that if you properly tied that bear on the quad would be able to drag it out the same way. Might be a problem if you have to drag uphill rather than flat or down. I think the problem would be getting it onto a truck unless you quarter or have a lift of some sort. Im hoping to have some first hand experience with the problem one day.
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