To bad Wis doesn't have spring season.

I was out for a MC ride traveling mostly gravel roads.

When a huge black bear bears stepped out into the road.

He would be one of the top 3 of big bears I have seen.

He ran down the road in front of be for a 100 yards or so.

A quick estimation of his weight would be over 500 pounds maybe over 600 a big bear for sure.

Got a good look at him big wide butt and huge feet

Lasso him and give me a call!

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Originally posted by crshelton:
Lasso him and give me a call!

Maybe Ray has a bomb proof bear roping horse that we could use.

Never happened, no pictures.

Just harrassment. Good for you seeing
such a bear. I've only seen one and it
was running hard the other way at first
sight. Dad did kill one in later years
though. In Co.

George

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Never happened, no pictures

I should get a go-pro and mount to my helmet.

Other then that I find trying to take pictures while driving down gravel roads at 50 mph on a MC.

Taking ones hands off the handle bars to do so is no very healthy

He was wide across the middle and broad across the rump
Running 90 miles an hour taking 30 feet a jump...
He’s never been caught and he’s never been treed...some folks say he looks a lot like me.
Old bluegrass song. Old slew foot I think it was.

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Old slew foot

Here you go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny0UI3DLegM

I had one check out my bird feeder about 4:30 yesterday afternoon, about 15 feet from my front door. By the way, our record Black Bear in NJ was 829 lbs!!! He nosed out a 779 lb Bear taken the year before for the record.

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Originally posted by Biebs:
I had one check out my bird feeder about 4:30 yesterday afternoon, about 15 feet from my front door. By the way, our record Black Bear in NJ was 829 lbs!!! He nosed out a 779 lb Bear taken the year before for the record.

There are some absolute monster black bears being killed every year.

I remember Jack O Conner saying a 300lb black was impossible or something like that.

Well Jack was wrong

Sitting near the top of an old slide area, as in avalanche, about 3 foot of snow on the ground, with my brother on an elk hunt 1984’ish 11000 ft in the Colorado Rockies resting. My brother always had a Varmint call and every time we set he would work that call. I saw some movement out of the corner of my periphery and turned my head and raised my 338 Ruger #1; my duplex coming to rest under the chin of a Huge fat old boar was slow swimming through the snow across the slide towards us. “Bear” I said aloud to my brother and at that the boar pivoted downslope and showed us how a bear could run “90 miles an hour taking 30 feet a jump.” To this day I can’t tell you why I did not press that trigger. I had a bear tag in my pocket. The sight of old slew foot avalanching down that mountain was something to see. Great memory.

Fury, sometimes the simple majesty of life gives us pause. Well done.

There are some giant black bears in the North Woods. Much bigger than the ones here in the Rockies. That being said there are a few 400 pounders running around here too.

Had about 150 pounder amble through the yard about an hour ago.