longbow111 , yep there's a lot more bears up here than I figured there would be. They leave their "calling cards" ten feet from my bedroom window, pull my trash cans off of a 5' high shed,rip/chew/slash the lids off,scatter the contents, and can really ruin a good deer hunting spot. Not to mention I have blackberry bushes that ring my yard. Anyway, I still like to see em, but if I feel that my family or pets etc.. are under immediate threat, I would have no qualms with the "SSS" thing that Caddo mentioned (the WI DNR and their gestapo like search and seizure powers notwithstanding).