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Saddlesore, seems a pretty common theme with about whatever animals might be prevalent in the area. Here in MO, it's normally about coyotes or the occasional bobcat.
Rusty, Didn't realize they had one that far north. Unless things have changed, the MO Dept. of Conservation has said 2021 for bear hunting. Seeing one down around my dad's place outside of Edwardsville.
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The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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Salmon runs are here. I have no doubt there are at least 5 or 6 brwn bears in the neighborhood. (Dachshund is outside right now going apesheet The Lab mix is going "I'll let him deal with it....") Bearanoia is over-rated. 've had them on the deck, in the back of my truck, sleeping under the bow of the boat in a hard rain, leaving muddy prints down my sidewalk, etc. Food/garbage is the key to either a problem or not. I no longer have a problem, seldom see any sign of one any more. They are still here tho. A few years ago I had a couple cubs (brown bear) try to sniff noses with my Lab. He wasn't having any of that. Lab was 15 feet in front of me, cubs 15 in front of him, mom 15 behind them, telling them in no uncertain terms to get the hell back in the woods. She very, very, very carefully did not make eye contact with me as we all (dog and I anyway) backed 180 degrees clear around the house to the door. I was impressed with her circumspection, but still kept a death clutch on my garden trowel.....  They say a sow with cubs is dangerous... I contend it's the cubs. Those little bastards get everyone in trouble! These two almost got me nailed, or, if my rifle hadn't been 20 yards away in the boat, their mother killed. Yes, I've posted these before. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/kBijZpR.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/r5BBRWG.jpg)
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The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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Salmon runs are here. I have no doubt there are at least 5 or 6 brwn bears in the neighborhood. (Dachshund is outside right now going apesheet The Lab mix is going "I'll let him deal with it....") Bearanoia is over-rated. 've had them on the deck, in the back of my truck, sleeping under the bow of the boat in a hard rain, leaving muddy prints down my sidewalk, etc. Food/garbage is the key to either a problem or not. I no longer have a problem, seldom see any sign of one any more. They are still here tho. A few years ago I had a couple cubs (brown bear) try to sniff noses with my Lab. He wasn't having any of that. Lab was 15 feet in front of me, cubs 15 in front of him, mom 15 behind them, telling them in no uncertain terms to get the hell back in the woods. She very, very, very carefully did not make eye contact with me as we all (dog and I anyway) backed 180 degrees clear around the house to the door. I was impressed with her circumspection, but still kept a death clutch on my garden trowel..... They say a sow with cubs is dangerous... I contend it's the cubs. Those little bastards get everyone in trouble! These two almost got me nailed, or, if my rifle hadn't been 20 yards away in the boat, their mother killed. Yes, I've posted these before. I'd have just thrown my binos at them!! 
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
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Unreal how much damage bears can do to a remote cabin. Squirells are second!
Pine martens are the worst!
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If a brown bear sets foot on our property he get skinned out and Registered on our RB 525 ticket. No exceptions!
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I tend to use more than enough gun
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We have plenty of black bears here in New Jersey. They have been seen a mile south of the George Washington Bridge which connects New Jersey to NYC. We have them here in my town, 20 miles west of Manhattan. A friend of mine killed one a few miles west of where I sit that weighed 679.5 lbs field dressed. All that, and there are cars with "Ban the Bear Hunt" bumper stickers riding around. The reason we have so many bears?
The state closed the bear hunting season for 30 years. Fools. People with the bumper stickers, gay teachers driving Subarus?
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