Both are very nice BIG bears. I have killed three with my bow and have seen at bait sites some where between thirty to fifty. I have stayed on a bait many times when it has sows with cubs. Their antics are laugh out loud moments. I had two cubs climb up to the
base of my stand and lifting my mask, shook my finger and said "not tonight". One of them looked so disappointed but they backed on down and started chasing the third cub that did not climb. By the way, that was the evening when a cub came up the tree and got between my buddy and the sow. He has never bear hunted again.

That enormous bear in Doubleplay's photo standing by the steel drum appears to be wearing a game department's ear tag, if I'm not mistaken. In my state, they often tag "problem" bears that have already been relocated. There's kind of a three strikes and your put down rule for black bears that can't stay off people's porches. The department had to catch and relocate one such bear from my back yard last year that had developed a taste for the dry cat food in the dispenser on my porch. I tried to take care of the problem myself, but he wouldn't show during daylight hours when the season was opened. We bagged him in the culvert trap the first night it was set and baited with rotten apples and bacon. A large, mature and healthy jet black boar.

Was your porch light burned out? *wink*

DLH

I had a bear attack my Britt while pheasant hunting. I shot it with a 12ga. DHE improved cylinder and 7 1/2 shot and it killed the bear. I wrote an article for the Parker Pages about it that was published a few issues ago. I call that gun my bear gun now.

Yeah that was a great story, I read it with interest. Amazing!

DLH

yep that was a great bear story i too read it over and over...we need another story with a bear got with the old parker loaded with buckshot and slugs... boy i bet the hunting partner still dreams about his experiance with the cub and the sow...i had to laugh a little.. heres my first cousins storey... the hunt was in wisconsin..my cosins name was CAROLYN the guy that carried her out hunting was her uncle looyie...looyie and her had hunted all morning but had not seen any bears. looyie found some tracks and decided to set and wait to see if the bear mite come back along..well looyie set CAROLYN down about 15 yards from the bear tracks and told her to make sure to stay awake for this bear just mite show up again..looyie told her he was going down the trail a little ways and set up watch his self...well looyie did not go 20 steps and said he found a blowed over spruce tree so he made his set up there..well the sun was a shining bright on that old blowed over spruce tree looyie fell a sleep on his stand...well was not to long CAROLYN heard this bear a coming it was getting closer and closer..CAROLYN WAS BEGINNING TO GET SCARED SHE COULD NOT SEE LOOYIE ANYMORE..well she got her gun up and got ready for that bear she said the noise of that bear was nerve racking..she said she lost her cool and decided she had better climb a tree and hopefully the bear could not climb it...CAROLYN said she went up that tree like a squirl and in a hurry...when she got up as high as she could she said she relized she had left her gun on the ground... she said her back pack and water was also on the ground.she said she was not going back down that tree to get that gun because she said that bear was making the awfulliest noises of snorting and things you ever heard..she said she screamed out a coupla times for looyie but decided she was giving her hiding place away.well the wind picked up and the temperature fell some she was really in trouble now..she said that bear was still in that brush pile making noises she decided she had to get somebodys attention if she could she was worried she would be up that tree all night..she had now been up this tree for 2 hours so she decided to start yellin for help...well she shouted at the top of her lungs well looyie jumped up put of his sleep and run to where CAROLYN WAS UP THAT TREE..he said carolyn had scared the you no what out of him...he finally coached her down out of that tree and got her to tell him what was going on..CAROLYN told him of the bears unusal noises and that she had been up that tree for over 2 hours and that bear had stayed in that brush pile the hold time till she went to screaming for looyie..well she kinda had her composure back and showed looyie where the bear was. low and behold to her surprise they went to the bears brush pile and as they looked for tracks looyie relized this was the brush pile he had made his wait for the bear..no tracks were found because it had been looyies snoring that CAROLYN had mistaken for a bear..till this day shes never been back bear hunting...true storey... charlie

My cousin Tim from Jefferson Ohio and his good friend Greg are in Maine right now on a guided hunt for black bear. They are with an outfitter in the Grand Lake Stream area. One of the hunters in camp bagged an enormous 455 lb. boar on Wednesday and another hunter took a 265 lb. bear. No luck for Tim or Greg yet but they still have this evening before heading back home.

We took two last week. The "big" guy never came back, as often happens with the really big bears. 175 and 220 Lbs. Very nice bears for our neck of the woods where the average NH bear is but 100 Lbs. The hounding season started this week, and when that happens the baits often times get abandoned. These will be good eaters. :) Dean, that 445 Lb bear is certainly a monster!!!!!!! Glad I did not have to drag his butt of of the woods!!

Well gentlemen, I have shot a black bear over point with a Parker VH 20 choked cyl/mod. Now, the rest of the story--While bird hunting one fall, in a state to remain un-named, my Brittany,Jess went on point near a beaver dam. When I walked in, he was pointing an emaciated black bear that appeared to have broken its back. It was crawling along with its front legs and its back legs looked like gangreen had already set in. The bear was more dead than alive, so I put it out of its misery with 7/8 oz of #8's at point blank range. I have always called that area the bla ck bear cover since.