how big is a big bear!!! warning!!

[1shotwade]

Was down the peco plant road just off wolf lake road down about 10km
Big grizzly walked out in front of truck. His hump was over my hoods and was as wide as my dodge 1500. Big bear and was moving like a tank!! Crossed the road in 2 steps!! Wow

[artie]

good thing you were not sleeping in a tent or you would have been awake all night

[Talking moose]

Time to buy a jacked up 3 ton dually!!

[Taco]

Originally Posted by 1shotwade

Was down the peco plant road just off wolf lake road down about 10km
Big grizzly walked out in front of truck. His hump was over my hoods and was as wide as my dodge 1500. Big bear and was moving like a tank!! Crossed the road in 2 steps!! Wow

Impressive buggers up close ain't they? And they look they throw you tells you just who's the Bull Boss of The Mountain.

[Talking moose]

Know a plant operator down the Chinchaga, was going to check a well and big boar grizz walking down the middle of the lease road.... Was obvious the bear wasn't getting off the road....ended up just driving in the ditch slowly around the bear to let it pass.....said when they were side by side, the bear just gave him about a 2 second look and without breaking stride and kept on its way.... Some bad bears up that way. Was somewhere around fontass or cranberry gas plant. Can't remember.

[Stinky Buffalo]

Might want to add the sighting to http://www.grizzlyscatapp.ca/

[EZM]

Originally Posted by Talking moose

Know a plant operator down the Chinchaga, was going to check a well and big boar grizz walking down the middle of the lease road.... Was obvious the bear wasn't getting off the road....ended up just driving in the ditch slowly around the bear to let it pass.....said when they were side by side, the bear just gave him about a 2 second look and without breaking stride and kept on its way.... Some bad bears up that way. Was somewhere around fontass or cranberry gas plant. Can't remember.

When I was a young man, my dad and uncles would take me once a year on a moose hunt out in Chinchaga ....... To this day I have not seen as many grizzlies with that frequency anywhere else in my travels.

I have not been up there in years but it used to be quite common to see a big grizzly.

I found a fresh paw print in mud that would have (literally) covered a pie tin ...... needless to say the "all powerful" 30-06 I was carrying seemed to shrink into a pea shooter before my eyes. I will tell you, I was pretty alert walking around in that area for the rest of the day.

*****

Trophy Pike Hunter and I went up to a lake in Sask a few springs ago, it was a day before opening so it looks like we were the first ones up there (other than the lodge operators who had just arrived a few days earlier) and were coming in on the road, maybe the last few hundred yards into camp, when a Black Bear came across the road and we stared at each other in disbelief ..... it was easily twice the size of any black bear I had ever seen. I'm guessing that bruin would have weighed over 500 lbs ..... amazing.

We got a really good look at it - from 30 feet away for 6-7 seconds and I'm 100% sure it was a black bear ....... not that I expected to see a Grizzly in Sask ..... but the size made me specifically look a little closer.

The biggest black bear I had ever seen up until that point may have weighed 300 lbs and this guy could have ate him.

[Grizzly Adams]

Originally Posted by Taco

Impressive buggers up close ain't they? And they look they throw you tells you just who's the Bull Boss of The Mountain.

Just finding the tracks of these beasts is impressive enough. Chinchaga has a reputation for big bears.

Grizz

[Wild&Free]

Want big bears? Head to BC's NW. 500lb Blacks are not uncommon and Grizzly's that take down 3500lb horned Hereford bulls pop every few years.

[avb3]

Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams

Just finding the tracks of these beasts is impressive enough. Chinchaga has a reputation for big bears.

Grizz

I believe fish and wildlife used to dump their problem bears into that area.

[Sooner]

Many moons ago i was fishing the pothole lakes between Banff and Jasper. We walked in about a km to the lake and started fishing from shore. As we worked our way around we came to a outlet creek and had to go in the bush to get around it. Just happened to walk right up to a pile of fresh, and it was fresh, bear poop that was huge. I had never seen a bear poop pile that big. Right away you were on alert. You just knew it was a grizz, we tried to fish some more but we got the feeling we were now following whatever left that pile so we ended up going back and fishing where we came from but that lake was not producing and I was more nervous then my friend so we ended up walking out keeping our eyes peeled and went to a different lake. They are an intimidating creature for sure.

[bonedogg]

My problem is that I would rather spend a lifetime in grizz country vs. riding the c train downtown after dark! Freakin scary people is what spooks me.

[Fisherpeak]

Originally Posted by Wild&Free

Want big bears? Head to BC's NW. 500lb Blacks are not uncommon and Grizzly's that take down 3500lb horned Hereford bulls pop every few years.

I lived in Hazelton, lots of salmon LOTS of big bears.Biggest I ever saw was a grizz that was taller on all fours than my jacked up Toyota 4x4. hood. He popped out onto an overgrown logging road 20 yards ahead and stopped and turned towards us.Buddy is yelling "Stay in the truck, don`t shoot him !!!" I`ve seen and shot a lot of bears, grizz included but this guy scared sh1t out of me. I got a big boar that squared just over 9 feet a week later but it was a 150 yard shot.60 feet is way too close. The first one was bigger.

[Fisherpeak]

Originally Posted by bonedogg

My problem is that I would rather spend a lifetime in grizz country vs. riding the c train downtown after dark! Freakin scary people is what spooks me.

Hand gun carry permit.

[albertadeer]

It's not the big old bears we need to worry about. It's the young punk bears looking for trouble...


10.5" across is the biggest grizzly track I've meausred

[Fisherpeak]

Originally Posted by albertadeer

It's not the big old bears we need to worry about. It's the young punk bears looking for trouble...


10.5" across is the biggest grizzly track I've meausred

One foot per inch roughly. That`s a BIG bear.

[albertadeer]

Originally Posted by Fisherpeak

One foot per inch roughly. That`s a BIG bear.

They say that, but I don't think it was a 11'+ bear lol.

But a 9' 800lb bear forsure.

[Wild&Free]

Originally Posted by Fisherpeak

I lived in Hazelton, lots of salmon LOTS of big bears.Biggest I ever saw was a grizz that was taller on all fours than my jacked up Toyota 4x4. hood. He popped out onto an overgrown logging road 20 yards ahead and stopped and turned towards us.Buddy is yelling "Stay in the truck, don`t shoot him !!!" I`ve seen and shot a lot of bears, grizz included but this guy scared sh1t out of me. I got a big boar that squared just over 9 feet a week later but it was a 150 yard shot.60 feet is way too close. The first one was bigger.

Bears there a different then here. Far more forage and habitat and if you knew the sections where they were overly territorial you never had an issue. There's a spot on the Babine where I've spent a few hours less then half a km away from bears fishing without incident, they'd pass by withing 100' look sniff and mozy down to the bear spot. 3-4km up or down stream totally different scene you left asap if you even thought you smelled one.

[score]

The bears are clearly showing no fear. There's going to be problems and a big increase in deadly encounters.

[buckbrushoutdoors]

Kept seeing good sized grizz tracks on a pipeline when glassing for black bears. One night while heading back to the lodge we finally seen him as he walked up on the road. Biggest grizz ive seen.

[Talking moose]

Originally Posted by Wild&Free

Bears there a different then here. Far more forage and habitat and if you knew the sections where they were overly territorial you never had an issue. There's a spot on the Babine where I've spent a few hours less then half a km away from bears fishing without incident, they'd pass by withing 100' look sniff and mozy down to the bear spot. 3-4km up or down stream totally different scene you left asap if you even thought you smelled one.

Eating a protein and fat rich source of food over 1000s of years have evolved coastal bears to be larger. Not to mention interior winters come earlier, stay later, and get colder.