03-14-2008, 05:19 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Forsyth county of north carolina
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|  Black bear question? Hey my fellow hunters, I live in forsyth county,nc. just hour from va. and even though i am that close to the mountains according to all the wildlife biologists in my area they say that the closest bear sightings were in surry county about 2 hours away. Me and my younger brother have found tracks about 7 1/2 inches! and all of them had claws imprinted into them.And these were not in red mud, but in firm soil! Theres about 750 acres of heavily wooded hills around my house. So I believe i may have one. Ill post a footprint of a bear track i have. I asked you because you live in nc. too. thanks,nc.hunter. Tell me what you think.  sorry its so blurry.
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03-14-2008, 07:31 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: AnchorTown, Alaska
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| Too blury to tell, but it looks proportionately close...
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03-14-2008, 08:20 PM
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| The Mayor  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Olive Branch, MS.
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|  I shrunk it down to 50%. Yeah, that's a bear track. Be careful around there! |
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03-14-2008, 09:15 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Oklahoma
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| Take care, he may move on out of the area but for safetys sake assume he is still out there and be prepared.
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03-14-2008, 09:32 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Kentucky
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| take your rifle just incase.
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03-14-2008, 09:35 PM
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| Banned Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Knoxville, TN
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| I lived in the Durham/Chapel Hill area for a long time. I remember there was a little black bear captured running around Greensboro and that's a ways from the mountains. |
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03-14-2008, 09:37 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Kentucky
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| theres one in central ky and we are nowhere near the mountains.
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03-14-2008, 09:39 PM
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| Banned Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Knoxville, TN
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| Eastern Black Bear are a fairly timid lot. About the most you get to see of them is a rump heading off through the woods at high speed. On very rare occasions, usually when a sow has a cub around, somebody gets mauled, and even rarer, killed. Even these exceptions are almost always limited to The Smokies, where rangers relocate problem bears out of the tourist areas to the hiking trails where they constantly entertain passing backpackers. . I agree that I'd not want to be the long odds exception, but you are in more danger in falling to your death around here. |
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03-17-2008, 09:59 AM
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| Banned Join Date: Jan 2008
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| Mitch I agree, I live in a heavily populated Black Bear area and it is EXTRMELY rare for a Bear to attack a human, there are only two cases that I can recall in my whole life in this area. One a fella was chased up a tree and his boot was torn a bit by a Bear in hot pursuit, but the Bear quickly lost interest and fled. I don't have the facts on the other, but it happened several years back. Black Bear, at least in the Northeast are very wary and timid and will go out of their way to avoid human contact. I have spent a lot of time in the woods and it is a rare sighting to see a Bear even in an area where it is suppose to be the largest population of them. Small Bear (250 to 350) leave BIG Tracks, about the size of a small dinner plate. I have never seen a Bear track in Alaska, and I am sure them Big guys leave some awesome tracks. Last edited by Wingwiper; 03-17-2008 at 10:03 AM. |
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