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Glad it is gone. Wonder how many fawn that thing ate.
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Glad it is gone. Wonder how many fawn that thing ate. I doubt very many. Bears are basically vegetarians and opportunist when it comes to meat. Some will catch live stuff but probably not very frequently. A bear that big is a really big bear. I find it amazing that all these bears make it to scales. Come hunt in Arizona, we are lucky to get ost of the boned meat out!
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was it shot in the ass with a 340 Uber Avalanche by chance?
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I am sorry I posted this.I thought a 780 pound bear was an achievement in it self. Apparently not.I wonder how many here have even seen a Bear over 300 Pounds.My guess is not many. I've seen lots of them, but then I'm only about 10 miles from where the 800 lb bear was killed
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That damn Ben Lilly killed all the bears in Texas back in 1900-1930. J. Frank Dobie, his biographer, said he seriously doubted people that said Lilly killed over a thousand bears and mountain lions. More like 950.
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That damn Ben Lilly killed all the bears in Texas back in 1900-1930. J. Frank Dobie, his biographer, said he seriously doubted people that said Lilly killed over a thousand bears and mountain lions. More like 950. Pre-ammo shortage.
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One killed in Longlac, Ontario last week that wen't 760 lbs on a certified scale--just down the hwy from the 780lber that was hit by a pulp truck outside of Kapaskasing a few years ago.
I think Dolly's brother Casey still got the big one out in North Carolina several years ago--890 or something ridiculus like that.
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Glad it is gone. Wonder how many fawn that thing ate. I doubt very many. Bears are basically vegetarians and opportunist when it comes to meat. Some will catch live stuff but probably not very frequently. A bear that big is a really big bear. I find it amazing that all these bears make it to scales. Come hunt in Arizona, we are lucky to get ost of the boned meat out! Not here in Wisconsin. Where there are bears they are one of the major predators of fawns. They will work bak and forth in fields in a grid pattern to find new born fawns.
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reelman,
I concur. The wolves get the attention of late but the blackies are the worst.
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Blackies (and browns) are a major contributor to newborn moose calf mortality here.
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The comments to the article are great: Robert: Well, Dennis! I hope you feel good about yourself. And, you killed the bear because? Barry Scheuermann: Sausage�you idiot My folks live in NW WI and had a black bear destroy a number of bird feeders last year. Bent the metal poles like they were nothing to get at the seed. Eric
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http://www.northcarolinasportsman.com/details.php?id=3104Hunters need not travel to Canada or Alaska to take a record-sized black bear. Eastern North Carolina�s mix of agriculture and rural wilderness is a haven for one of the largest aggregations of black bears in the world � and some of the biggest, as evidenced by an enormous bear killed in Washington County on Dec. 14.
A group of die-hard bear hunters brought a whopping 780-pound bruiser to the scales that day, a boar that, while believed to be the second-heaviest bruin ever killed in North Carolina, remains more than 100 pounds shy of the state record � which is also the world record.
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Brandon �Big Red� Barnes put the killing shot into the skull of this 780-pound Washington County bear � believed to be the second-heaviest ever killed in North Carolina. With that body size, it probably would have a big enough skull to make the record book -- if the bullet didn't shatter it. Steve.
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Who cares about the skull? Just get the scale!
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Ben liked 30-30 for cats 33 Win for bears.
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Glad it is gone. Wonder how many fawn that thing ate. I doubt very many. Bears are basically vegetarians and opportunist when it comes to meat. Some will catch live stuff but probably not very often It's pretty well documented in WI about the fawns...bears eat A LOT of fawns. Bears don't to be 780 pounds by eating salad and garbage can contents.
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Yep. If you are from CutNshoot you probably know people that knew Lilly.
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Many, many years ago, at night I was sitting by my Dad in the front seat when a bear that big crossed the logging road we were on right in front of our headlights. I swear he looked that big...
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Yep. If you are from CutNshoot you probably know people that knew Lilly. I bet she was great with garlic potatoes and onions
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