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Like many a folk here, we take the bear threads in great humor and well........a little common place over the years.

I was fortunate and honored to go to my unlces cabin for the first time in the woods--beautiful place and as close to heaven on earth as you can imagine.

Well, my wife and I got lost. No road signs, just logging roads and being an Eagle Scout and experienced outdoorsman really didnt matter. We didnt know where we were.

Ok, so I get to a point in the logging road where i reckon there's no way anyone outside of my truck could have passed through here. Yup we are lost, turned around, temporarily displaced.

I look in my rear-view mirror and see the biggest, baddest, black bear to possibly ever grace this earth. This sucker had to be north of 600 Lbs. and back stood as tall as my back tail gate on my truck.......I mean really, this thing was a behemoth and im not very often impressed.

Ok, so it didnt run when it saw me....just stared. I honked the horn on my full size truck.....didnt even move. It was probably 30-40 yards away....it suddenly dawned on me....all I got is a Smith and Wesson 642 with really hot loads and a speed loader.

Ok..................honk again, the bear slowly walks away into the woods.

Obviously it is his home and i am guest, but boy i tell ya, its all fun and games until you are within spittin' distance of a large bear.:eek::cool:
 
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Yeah, some bear stories ain't so funny.....

I don't remember the details at all, but a couple had a house in the woods and one day a black bear got after them and pursued them relentlessly. I think the man got in the truck to go get help. The wife ended up on the roof of the house where the bear climbed up and killed her. I know it sounds strange and I'm sure there are a lot of questions about this story, but it made sense at the time.

I just found the story and that's pretty much how it happened. It got in the house through a back window and I think she climbed a ladder and knocked it over but the bear climbed a tree and got on the roof with her. They agreed that he should jump off and run 80 yards to the lake to get a gun and find some help. A ranger said that it was unusually aggressive. This was in Alaska.
 
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I think we had a bear after our bird feeder last week. They're not common here but they are around. The feeder is made from a piece of hollow log and has a chunk of solid oak on top for a lid that probably weighs 10lbs. One day the lid was found 15' away and there were logs in the way so it couldn't have rolled there. Also there was a broken limb in a little tree next to the feeder.
 
TheHobbyist said:
Yup we are lost, turned around, temporarily displaced.I look in my rear-view mirror and see the biggest, baddest, black bear to possibly ever grace this earth. This sucker had to be north of 600 Lbs. and back stood as tall as my back tail gate on my truck.......I mean really, this thing was a behemoth and im not very often impressed.

Ok, so it didnt run when it saw me....just stared. I honked the horn on my full size truck.....didnt even move. It was probably 30-40 yards away....it suddenly dawned on me....all I got is a Smith and Wesson 642 with really hot loads and a speed loader.

Ok..................honk again, the bear slowly walks away into the woods.
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Okay. You were inside your truck when you saw the (big) bear. Your full size truck. The bear was 30-40 yards away. Behind you. You were safe inside your truck. You could've simply driven away.

You, your wife, and the bear looked at each other for a while. Then the bear got bored with the whole business and left.

So what was the problem?
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@Watchdog,

A very reasonable and logical post. Let me provide a bit more info.:

I was driving on a Very narrow logging road, I could not go 6 inches to either side (there were fully mature trees present), therefore I could not turn around. I could no longer go forward because of an extremely deep drop off....it was literally the end of the road.

More to come after lunch
 
Back from lunch...

So we are lost for a good hour at this point, at least three miles into dense hardwoods with no way to go further ahead or turn around on either side......my wife and I are not happy......frustrated because we are lost so the only way out is reverse for several miles......I get out to take a whiz..... Got just swarmed with giant horse flies and mosquitos literally swarming around me....which distracted me from noticing the bear.....
 
I jump back into the truck swearing to high heaven about all the skeeters.....wife is expanding her vocabulary too.....I put it in reverse look in my rear view mirror and here is this massive black bear...... I start thinking a million things at once.....holy cow I was just back there taking a whiz....bear had to be super close......I honked my horn bear just stood there and stared......
 
My wife is frantic and the bear is blocking the only way out...I lay on the horn it still didn't move......just stared. What seemed like an eternity but I'm sure was less than a minute I try honking the horn again..... Thing just looked and slowly crossed the narrow logging road into the woods........we waited a few minutes......which again seemed like a long time and slowly backed out of the woods those three to four miles...
 
Let me say when I realized in the truck how close that bear was to me and I didn't notice it because nature called and was immediately SWARMED by giant horse flies bigger than bumble bees and mosquitos the size of birds (that part is an exaggeration) it made my skin crawl knowing that bear must have just froze and watched me within a few yards.....
 
It was a different experience than driving through Yellowstone and seeing a bear on the side of the road.....
 
Discovering a bear at very close range is alarming.

Last year, my sister was loading trash in the back of her subaru at our mountain home to take to the dump.

She left the car door open while she went into the cabin for another load.

When she came out of the cabin with the next load of trash, she discovered a bear in the front seat going through the trash.

She got back to the cabin safely and called me wanting to know where the bear spray was.

Bear wandered away in a few hours.

Car stunk of bear for weeks.
 
In my entire life, I have had only one "encounter" with a bear outside of a zoo. I was on my motorcycle, on an access road coming down off the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia. I came around a gentle curve on a phenomenally gorgeous road and a black bear was in the MIDDLE of the road, literally on all fours on the yellow line.

I had enough time to slow my bike and... start to think about how I wanted to panic but the bear saw me coming and decided he didn't want to be there anymore.

He was not at all a "large" bear, I would say 200lbs maybe and perhaps less. He looked like a VERY large dog in size but what REALLY impressed me was that when he decided to exit, he went straight left to the edge of the road where he met a vertical wall of rock -- and he proceeded to go nearly STRAIGHT up this wall, in three bounds, then *gone* and this wall was every bit of 25 vertical feet.

I had to laugh... after exhaling, anyway. Just seems to me like if you come across a bear in the wild, the ball is most decidedly in his corner.
 
When the Family and I went camping in Yellowstone National Park We had a Pop up Camper and about 2am We heard People walking around banging pots and pans together and yelling,I went out to see what the fuss was about and there were Rangers walking around making the noise,It seems a couple of Park Bears had come into the Camp Ground looking for Food and They were trying to make the Bears move on.I spent the rest of the night waiting for a big Paw to come in from under the wall of the Camper and try and snag My wife or one of the Kid's.
Still We had a great time and highly recommend going their if You get the Chance.
 
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