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Lionhill

Lionhill

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I put a trail cam on the back of my property. This fellow showed up last night. Given my foot/leg for scale (I'm 6'1"), where would you place this blackie on the weight/age scale.

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LH
 
Looks like he is in real good shape for winter, including heavy fur. The ears and head indicate not too large a speciman, though. The bears I've seen weighed were usually less than most people expected.
 
I've never hunted in bear areas, so have never worried about carrying bear spray or a rifle for protection. Now that this bear is around my area, I still have not worried to much since I have always been told a bear will smell or hear you and high tail it the other way if he knew a human was around. But now, since reading about the bear who attacked that guy in the fishing boat, and a few other stories from out West, and I beginning to think differently.
 
The bear that jumped on the boat and tried to eat the guy was a completely different animal than the one you have the picture of. The boat bear was around the dock every day, seeing what he could find to eat and in the proccess discovering that people would do him no harm. Finally, he got extra hungry, smelled the delicious aromas from the fish boat, jumped aboard and tied into the first edible thing he saw.
The bear in the picture has probably never seen a person. But, his mommy warned him that those things that walk upright on two legs are the most dangerous creatures on earth. If you smell one, this bear was told, you run and hide, as fast as you can!
If the bear in the picture has indeed, been isolated from people, you (or I) are probably not good enough hunters to go out in the bush and find him. I would not have the slightest fear of trying to find him, carrying no bear protection, whatsoever.
 
H4831 said:
The bear that jumped on the boat and tried to eat the guy was a completely different animal than the one you have the picture of. The boat bear was around the dock every day, seeing what he could find to eat and in the proccess discovering that people would do him no harm. Finally, he got extra hungry, smelled the delicious aromas from the fish boat, jumped aboard and tied into the first edible thing he saw.
The bear in the picture has probably never seen a person. But, his mommy warned him that those things that walk upright on two legs are the most dangerous creatures on earth. If you smell one, this bear was told, you run and hide, as fast as you can!
If the bear in the picture has indeed, been isolated from people, you (or I) are probably not good enough hunters to go out in the bush and find him. I would not have the slightest fear of trying to find him, carrying no bear protection, whatsoever.
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sorry...What?? i'm lost.

using you as a comparison. I'd guess 4-5' in length and 150lbs not huge but big enough to do some damage to you and your kids if he's hungry.
 
Lionhill, your bear is not a wilderness bear, as I first thought. By your other posts it looks like that bear may also be used to people. If that is the case, he too, could be dangerous and of course you would carry a gun if you have children with you. If he gets snooping around your place, or anywhere close to the kids, I would shoot him without hesitation.
However, a real wilderness bear that has never been near people, is one of the least dangerous of any large animal in the bush. Far more dangerous is a bull moose in rutting season.
Crout, if you are still lost, tell me where.
 
Should have qualified that my drive way is 250 yards long, and I would go so far as to say that the bear scattered when he saw me. Perhaps not too used to people, as people around here would shoot him grave yard dead given half a chance. Lots of crops of grapes/fruit/kids to deal with.

LH
 
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