I’ve had this trailcam for 9 years and never seen a bear, nor have I seen one in person in this area. Saturday at about 11 AM in broad daylight this guy takes a stroll through my back yard. Um, do you think he looks hungry?? 
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…and then the turkey came through…
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I’m hoping to get a video of BIGFOOT next!!!
That’s wild.
Literally.
nice. Do you ever see deer or elk?
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There’s no elk in this area. Deer walk by daily. I get groundhog, skunk, turkey, coyote, raccoon, bobcat, feral cats, owls, dogs, opossum, and rabbit regularly. I even get large turtles once in a while. Now I can add bear to the list.
I have a Great Horned Owl living in the back woods, and he feeds in my yard at dusk and dawn. Not too many squirrels running around.
I even witnessed this guy walk by just before dark a few years ago.
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I called to inform them of the spotting, but they said unless I could trap him they couldn’t do anything. I never saw him again.
noice
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Free food for dinner, then? 
…make mine the turkey leg. mmm
I thought the same thing too lol like who’s to stop him from just shooting one of those with a little pellet gun?
Don’t see why Motor Daddy ever pays for meat.
Jokes aside though, that is a privileged way to live.
is this somewhere in or around the Appalachian foothills? i was in north carolina once, stoned and driving a motorcycle through some fog and shit and i got lost on all these curvy mountain roads and came up on a pack of bears like that in the street eating some roadkill and i thought i was gonna get clotheslined and eaten by bears. some real wild shit. that one looks pretty well fed. i wouldn’t fuck with it.
Vance County NC, about 15 miles south of the Virginia border. The more I think about it the more I worry about a bear coming out of nowhere and attacking me. Heck, I could be taking the trash out to the road and he could get me. 
Check out this video, it has a lot of good information about how to react to a bear attack, and how little time you have before it’s too late.
I think I’m gonna get me some bear spray.
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Black bears are cuties though, they are much more used to humans and I think not much of a threat to anyone. I could be mistaken and I haven’t looked at numbers but would guess black bear attacks are fairly rare.
People that live in grizzley country though, they better have tear gas and a big .45. As far as grizzleys are concerned, you’re stepping on their grass.
It’s definitely rare for a black bear to attack, most of the time they will run away. It’s the times that it runs towards you that you have to worry about.
When I was very small probably 5 or 6 years old I was chased by a dog that broke his chain to get me, and as I was running it jumped up and bit me in the ass. I had to go to the doctors and given some shots but was okay.
Since then I have a fear of big dogs, I don’t like them at all. A bear running at me would probably cause me to die of a heart attack before he got to me. Scares the crap out of me!
dont shoot a bear man. unless you’ve got like a .500 smith and wesson or a .454 casull or something you may end up just pissing it off. you need like a serious rifle round if you want to be sure that you get the bear with one shot. something like a .46/70 or 300 win mag. the bear spray is the real method. step one just be like yo this isn’t even happening and try and back away slowly and get some distance but like do not turn your back on it. step 2 if this doesn’t work don’t run just wave your arms around and make a shit load of noise to try and startle and confuse it, step 3 if this does not work then bear mace the fucking shit out of it and then run and when i say bear mace the shit out of it i mean use the whole can and go super hard like bear go fuck yourself eat this whole can of mace and then you gtf outta there.
some national parks will rent you a big can of bear mace for when you go hiking in bear infested areas so i think they know what’s up. also, i once caught a guy who had broken in and stolen some guns from me and i didn’t wanna get shot by him so i just went full on crazy and emptied an entire can of bear mace on him and he just stayed right there he was fully incapacitated so i can tell you it’s some real nasty and highly effective shit
You know what you’re supposed to do, right?
Buy a big fucking dog.
Being serious, that does put the visiting bear thing into perspective. I had a similar thing happen, but I was maybe 10 and walking my mom’s dog, and a bulldog broke its chain and bee lined straight to my dog. It mauled it for a while and I don’t remember how they got split up, but my dog was fine. I remember feeling disgusted at my helplesness. Thankfully, my mom’s dog absorbed the shock.
Not a bulldog, sorry, what do you call those angry looking ones. A bull terrier? The small squatty ones that looked like God spared all the other ingredients and only used muscles.
No, yeah, a bulldog. What it wasn’t was a pitbull.
maybe to an extent but then you don’t ever know if there are cubs nearby and the mother bear will go full batshit on you if there are
Naah, it doesn’t work the same with black bears. The cubs will never be anywhere Motor Daddy will ever walk by. Even if you went into the woods the cubs would be nowhere to be found for humans. Black bears know the score, they are forest animals. Grizzleys are more savannah types, they be like “all this open space why not use it.”
yeah the ones i encountered were pretty deep in a forest area not a lot of flat treeless land anywhere nearby