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PostWed Nov 12, 2008 1:45 pm 
Huge bear shot on Kitsap Peninsula. 570 pounds seems to be an extradinary weight for a Washington black bear. I'm curious to know if anyone has seen or heard of a bear this large in our area. I doubt if any of the hundreds of bears I've encountered were more than four hundred pounds, the majority much less than that. I wonder if foraging around a relatively populated area made for easy pickings on human-generated food, like orchards, garbage dumps, etc. Not interested in starting any hunting or gun wars so please refrain from doing so.

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PostWed Nov 12, 2008 2:04 pm 
Based on the head I can say that I personally have never seen one that big before and I have been crossing their paths in this area for 45 years or so.

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PostWed Nov 12, 2008 5:32 pm 
That is definitely the biggest black bear I've ever seen....I wonder how many other folks have seen this bear and were secretly hoping for a shot during the season ?
Shacknasty Jim wrote:
Not interested in starting any hunting or gun wars so please refrain from doing so.
Don't need to have a debate here. Reading the comments on the paper's website, it appears they're having their own debate there.

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PostWed Nov 12, 2008 5:52 pm 
Shacknasty Jim wrote:
Not interested in starting any hunting or gun wars so please refrain from doing so.
Then why post this in trail talk? What relevance does it have to hiking?

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PostWed Nov 12, 2008 5:56 pm 
that bugger must have had alll the secret stashes.

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PostWed Nov 12, 2008 6:10 pm 
Seabeck? I suspect that bear knew a thing or two about swimming.

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PostWed Nov 12, 2008 6:30 pm 
Wow.. what a magnificent bear that was. Poor fella. Just imagine the grizzly can be twice that size eek.gif

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PostWed Nov 12, 2008 6:49 pm 
Probably gobbled up all the local geocaches... burger.gif

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PostWed Nov 12, 2008 7:44 pm 
That is one big bear. Last year my neighbor shot a 450 lber bow hunting just down the road from where I live. I have a series of geocaches in there and had people complaining about seeing bear scat. Hello!.....you are out in the country where there are wild animals. lol.gif Did anyone see Bear Feeding Frenzy on the Discovery chnl last Sunday night? The host flew in a plexiglass box to observe and film brown bears in Alaska. What crazy stuff! They also did a segment on 2 car breaking in black bears. Watch that show and it may change your mind about going out in bear country. hockeygrin.gif

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PostWed Nov 12, 2008 8:12 pm 
Big ol' bar, hell - look at that big 'ol hunter! Mr. Durbin there is 6'7" and 300+ lbs! Not 'sumpin you see in the woods ever'day neither. I wonder if'n the 'bar got a chance to admire the heft of his hunter before bein' heaved 'tward heaven? dizzy.gif

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PostWed Nov 12, 2008 11:33 pm 
That's a big bar. But he has played a bit with the perspective of the picture to make it look even bigger.

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PostThu Nov 13, 2008 2:21 am 
That's a lot of meat.

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PostThu Nov 13, 2008 9:44 am 
That had to be hell to pack out. Bet he stunk to high heaven. I've seen a bear that big once in Yosemite, he was well fed with gummy bears, MRE's, and poptarts lol.gif

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PostThu Nov 13, 2008 10:26 am 
http://www.americanbear.org/Size.htm
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The world record weight for an American black bear is 880 pounds. This was the recorded weight of a 10.75 year-old male bear shot in North Carolina in November 1998.
I was curious what the record is. 310 # more!

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PostThu Nov 13, 2008 11:57 am 
I know I sometimes read too fast, so did I just totally miss where it mentioned this deer hunter had a combo permit that included bear?

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