Author Topic: How BIG is this rascal??? (Read 3890 times)

Macatawa · « **on:** September 08, 2018, 07:22:38 PM »

Terry's been wandering around in the wilderness this afternoon....Came across this:

How BIG do ya think it is??

Roy from Pa · « **Reply #1 on:** September 08, 2018, 07:37:29 PM »

800...

WVFarrier · « **Reply #2 on:** September 08, 2018, 08:29:29 PM »

Scary big

goingoldskool · « **Reply #3 on:** September 08, 2018, 09:02:12 PM »

Big enough!

WESTBROOK · « **Reply #4 on:** September 08, 2018, 09:46:34 PM »

Hopefully too big to climb a tree....see ya

ron w · « **Reply #5 on:** September 08, 2018, 09:48:22 PM »

Oh my.......nice one!!!

Friend · « **Reply #6 on:** September 08, 2018, 10:57:16 PM »

Not willing to stay and find out.

Send me a post card.

Trenton G. · « **Reply #7 on:** September 08, 2018, 11:17:08 PM »

Looks like a pretty good sized one. Hope you run in to him (if you're after him that is)

David McLendon · « **Reply #8 on:** September 08, 2018, 11:23:13 PM »

Bears at a walking pace over-step, which means that the hind foot steps into the track of the front foot. That is clearly visible here as you can see the elongated imprint of the heel inside the track of the front foot. That makes the track appear bigger to those that are unfamiliar with the gait of a walking bear. Still, knowing the size of the Zwickey Delta as comparison, this is a decent sized bear.

JimB · « **Reply #9 on:** September 09, 2018, 02:55:03 PM »

I'm looking at the width across the 5 front toes and it looks like a good boar to me.It's hard to scale up a photograph but it looks maybe 5" across.That's a big bear in this country.

Car54 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 09, 2018, 04:25:54 PM »

Your shooting a Zwickey...your safe. Have no idea the size.

10essee · « **Reply #11 on:** September 09, 2018, 04:43:07 PM »

Definitely a good one. Anyone feeling a little ashamed for clicking on a thread of this title.

Charlie Lamb · « **Reply #12 on:** September 09, 2018, 06:02:10 PM »

Obviously a 600# Sasquatch in need of a pedicure.

Terry Green · « **Reply #13 on:** September 10, 2018, 02:13:55 PM »

Quote from: David McLendon on September 08, 2018, 11:23:13 PM

Bears at a walking pace over-step, which means that the hind foot steps into the track of the front foot. That is clearly visible here as you can see the elongated imprint of the heel inside the track of the front foot. That makes the track appear bigger to those that are unfamiliar with the gait of a walking bear. Still, knowing the size of the Zwickey Delta as comparison, this is a decent sized bear.

Yes Sir...familiar with that I was not really making the lenght out as to the size, but more the width and the toes plus claws.

Thanks everyone...I stalked 4 bears this weekend, and this was left by one of them....

Terry Lightle · « **Reply #14 on:** September 10, 2018, 04:18:03 PM »

Plenty big enough!
Terry

Ted Fry · « **Reply #15 on:** September 12, 2018, 02:39:18 PM »

About 100 #s , just really big feet.

Terry Green · « **Reply #16 on:** September 13, 2018, 04:17:54 PM »

Yeah Ted...my luck for sure....

I killed one that had a really nice sized head, that of a 250#er, and she was 10 years old and she only weighed 149. Her head was way bigger than the proportion of her head.

I asked the game warden about it....and he said that her being that old and in the mountains, she probably had two or three cubs over the last couple of years, that the 2 year drought and the cubs draining her, she lost a lot of weight.

David McLendon · « **Reply #17 on:** September 13, 2018, 08:50:42 PM »

Is that a Cohutta bear?

Terry Green · « **Reply #18 on:** September 13, 2018, 09:05:37 PM »

Blue Ridge Bear

Cyclic-Rivers · « **Reply #19 on:** September 14, 2018, 02:12:48 PM »

Looks to be the result of "bear feet" lol good luck Terry!


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