information: NC Bears; North Carolina grows BIG black bears, much bigger than the black bears in Canada. The state record AND world record heaviest black bear is an
880 pound bear taken in 1998 with a shotgun, also on a hound hunt, in Craven County
I’ve hunted eastern NC 😁 always staying alert 😜
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/05/north-carolina-bear-hunting-activists-dismayA decades-long ban on bear hunting in parts of
North Carolina has been overturned by the state’s wildlife resources commission, in a move that has sparked outcry from local residents and American animal rights groups.
The North Carolina commission voted to allow bear hunting in three bear sanctuaries, encompassing an area of 92,500 acres of mountainous forest in the southern US state. The sanctuaries, established to protect and preserve North Carolina’s black bear population, are set to open to hunters later in 2022, despite thousands of people signing a petition against the move.
Bear hunting has been banned in North Carolina’s Panthertown-Bonas Defeat, Standing Indian and Pisgah Bear sanctuaries since 1971. The number of black bears in the state has since grown from fewer than 1,000 to about 25,000, according to the wildlife commission
