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![[Linked Image from cdn0.wideopenspaces.com]](https://cdn0.wideopenspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/bear-32.jpg) One happy bear.
Last edited by kenjs1; 10/14/19.
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That is a big bear. I would hate to stumble on him in the dark!
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Some nice bears for sure.
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they get a lot bigger, but 700 is about 4X the size of the average one shot, I guess.
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they get a lot bigger, but 700 is about 4X the size of the average one shot, I guess. No they don’t, you could say they get a little bit bigger. Unless of course you are speaking of something other than black bears. You won’t find any black bears that are a lot bigger than 700.
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they get a lot bigger, but 700 is about 4X the size of the average one shot, I guess. No they don’t, you could say they get a little bit bigger. Unless of course you are speaking of something other than black bears. You won’t find any black bears that are a lot bigger than 700. 879 pounder taken in PA this year. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.poconorecord.com/article/20101119/News/11190341%3ftemplate=ampart
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Could be. I always wonder why the photos are never taken so you can really compare the size. Usually if people are in the photo they are behind the bear or in a position thats distorted. I have some pics of me behind some black bears that appear as big as most grizzlies. Biggest was just over 400 pounds. Not saying they don't exist, just saying. I read and see stories and pictures of 700 pound black bears and 200 pound wolves about every year.
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Obese and *big* aren't quite the same thing in my book.
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Your link on the bottom says, "This 700+-pound black bear was killed near Boyceville, Wisconsin when a farmer accidentally ran over it with his combine in a cornfield."
Hope the combine is okay. I've seen bear in the Boyceville area - and a local hunter's daughter got one that weighed 540+, dressed, not too far from here... More and more black bear are in this area; I usually see 2-3 every year when I'm just driving around on the bike.. Had one cross from one corn field to another across the road right in front of me about two years ago just east of Connorsville on Co. Rd V... Two years ago, a farmer was combining corn when he ran over a bear's den in the field.. Cost him about 20 grand in repairs...  One of the biggest bears I've ever seen was not too far from you in a corn field in Roberts....that Sumbitch was scary big.
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Virginia gal got it done several years ago , but bear doesn’t look to be a 600 pounder . But could be the way picture was taken . Kenneth https://www.times-news.com/shore-gi...9479abc-4847-5822-af6d-5450b5397449.htmlThought she was a Va gal , from memory of original front page of a Cumberland Md paper .
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Obese and *big* aren't quite the same thing in my book. Ditto. I read titles like this and have to wonder “but, how big was it”? 
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