Bear Killed by John Deere Combine in Wisconsin

Probably because it's hanging in an artificially lit area, and the shadow its casting on the floor is out of the picture?

And 220shifty is right... the bear looks bigger because of the optical illusion that the lady far behind it makes.
 
The photo does look strange.What is supposed to be holding the bear up?
On a side note the only animal I ever combined was a skunk .The smell goes away after enough straw goes through.
 
RR said:
The photo does look strange.What is supposed to be holding the bear up?
On a side note the only animal I ever combined was a skunk .The smell goes away after enough straw goes through.
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The bear is being held up by the rope tied around the outer claw on the left paw, can't you tell.... :p

Amateur attempt with photoshop, though it is a big bear.

Google works, the true story is on there and it's not even close to this one.
 
The naysayers and sceptics will abound. The final result will be the measurement on the skull.

The part of the story that gets my attention is that spearing the bear with the header on a combine was enough to kill it. Any machinery dragging 700lbs of anything out on the end would jerk the wheel and cause it to spin like a lightplane taxiing on ice.
 
maple_leaf_eh said:
The naysayers and sceptics will abound. The final result will be the measurement on the skull.

The part of the story that gets my attention is that spearing the bear with the header on a combine was enough to kill it. Any machinery dragging 700lbs of anything out on the end would jerk the wheel and cause it to spin like a lightplane taxiing on ice.
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That combine could possibly weigh 70,000 lbs...depending on the model, and how full it was.

A 700 lb bear isn't that much of a challenge to a Deere. ;)
 
beefman said:
That combine could possibly weigh 70,000 lbs...depending on the model, and how full it was.

A 700 lb bear isn't that much of a challenge to a Deere. ;)
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Don't need a Deere to take down a bear, all you need is the new super duper Magpul Tactical Combine ;)

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maple_leaf_eh said:
The naysayers and sceptics will abound. The final result will be the measurement on the skull.

The part of the story that gets my attention is that spearing the bear with the header on a combine was enough to kill it. Any machinery dragging 700lbs of anything out on the end would jerk the wheel and cause it to spin like a lightplane taxiing on ice.
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Not necessarily. Vancouver Island has probably the biggest and heaviest black bears in North America, yet very few make B&C.
The one hit in Manitoba a few years back on the highway beside a garbage dump was weighed at 800 lbs, as far as I know it didn't make B&C either.
 
very few black bears make B&C body size doesn't necessarilly mean it will make book we took a bear last spring that will probably squeak in & its weight was close to 500 lbs but probably more like 475 we aged it at 7-8 yrs old the best advice for book bears is to find a place that grows fat headed bears period I think this bear could weigh 700 lbs & still not make book
 
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