This big guy lived on an island in the middle of a large swamp on one of our farms near Hobgood. Due to all of the water, there was no way we could put hounds on this big boar. Bears this size do not tree and he has the advantage in water and will drown the dogs.






The only way we were going to get this old guy was to still hunt him and that we did. A fellow AR Member arrived last Sunday. He is an accomplished hunter and he agreed not to risk spooking him even though this bear had visited the peanuts the morning before he arrived to camp. We made the right call and only hunted him in the afternoons. This past Thursday, our fellow AR Member, made a perfect shot with his 416 and killed this giant. We had to pull him to the flat bed scales and then go back and weigh the truck and trailer.
This is what a happy Outfitter Looks Like!

My guide Robert and I pose for a quick photo before the taxidermist gets to work.

Still waiting to hear back from Taxidermist but we think his skull will make Boone and Crocket. I Love it when a plan comes together.
We feed these bears lots of peanuts. They want to lay on the peanut piles and rake them into their mouths. I had spent about $2,800 in peanuts on this bear site since last Spring.


Raking in the peanuts.




Hunting was really tough for a few days and I was worried that we were not going to get him. We had no other big bears on baits at decent hours and the guys hound hunting were only finding small bears. I had another client that was suppose to arrive on Wednesday but I told him not to come because he only had two full days to hunt. I was not feeling confident. I feel like I made the right call but the bears really started moving on Friday.

This was a picture from Saturday afternoon.

My brother out hunted my on Friday and doubled up on two over 450. (I deleted the picture of the double because one of the hunters was sitting on the bear. Did not want to offend anyone.)

There are still a good number of big bears around. I think there was a total of 800 bears killed in NC last week. We have another two week season in December.

Clark Purvis
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Great pictures. That last one's a real
monster.

Thanks for sharing with us. Good luck on the hunts.

George

Some great bears there, the last one looks like I will after Thanksgiving dinner tonight.

You told us what you had to do to weigh him. Are you going to tell us what he weighed?

It reminds me of a funny story about my grandfather. When he was about 8 or 10, he had to take one of his aunts, who was a very large woman, into town. He was curious how much she weighed. He got the horse and wagon ready, then drove her to town but said he needed to stop at the grain elevator on the way. He parked the wagon with his aunt on the scales and went inside to check the weight. Then he took her wherever she needed to go and went back to weigh the wagon without her.

Good stuff Capt. I’m headed to NC for Smokey on the 10th. Hope to get one close to that!

We had extremely good hunting last week. Everyone got their bears. Very proud of my son. His was probably the most intense hunt of the week. On our hands and knees crawling through the holes in the thick bush. Bear would not tree and wanted to fight. My son kept calm and made a great shot. Not a giant but great memories. He had me and three of his uncles there with him to experience the hunt. Bear weighed 245.

That NC style of crawling through thickets after bears is.....welll......not really "normal"!


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Originally posted by JTEX:
That NC style of crawling through thickets after bears is.....welll......not really "normal"!


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It is in other places also we do it a lot in Northern Wis also

Our guide Alex has had to lay down and let the bear run over him while he was in a tight tunnel. He says that they will not pay much attention if you lay down because they are worried about the hounds.

I have never, nor do I plan to get into this situation. This has happened several times in Hyde County. Once you experience this thick bush you will understand. Ideally you do not want to have to go after the bear in the thick stuff.

Worried most of the times about the hounds for sure but I known hunters that have gotten bite.

out of curiosity, are the peanuts shelled or in shell?

People used both. Unshelled are better. I use mostly shelled because they are less expensive.