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A protester speaks out against bear hunting during a rally.
Black Bear Hunting

This Group Is Paying Hunters $2,000 Not to Use Their Tags, in a Final Effort to Thwart Florida’s Bear Hunt

By Dac Collins

A hunter with a heavy Pennsylvania black bear.
Black Bear Hunting

Pennsylvania Hunter Tags Biggest Black Bear of the Season with His Wife’s Lucky Rifle

By Bob McNally

An illustration of a grizzly bear tumbling down a mountain as hunters get out of the way.
Grizzly Bear Hunting

A Grizzly Stole My Son’s First Deer. So We Tracked the Bear Down

By William J. McRae

An illustration of a bear biting the hand of a West Virginia houndsman.
Black Bear Hunting

A Black Bear Tried to Kill My Dogs. Then It Turned on Me

By John McCoy

An illustration of Frank Glaser falling down dogs.
Bear Hunting

The Day My Sled Dogs Took On a Grizzly — and Won

By Frank Glaser, as told to Jim Rearden

A Soviet-style illustration of a bear.
Black Bear Hunting

The Ex-Communist Bear Baiter of Saskatchewan

By Andrew McKean

hunter aims at bear
Grizzly Bear Hunting

I Thought Alaska Had Beaten Me. Then, Finally, I Saw the Biggest Brown Bear of My Life

By Kenneth C. Kellar

The new state-record sow black bear in Maine.
Black Bear Hunting

Maine Guide Snares a New State-Record Black Bear

By Bob McNally

Freel with black bear
Bear Hunting

Stop Shooting Bears Here; Hunter Education Has Failed Us on Bear Anatomy

By Tyler Freel

A black bear sits in a hardwood tree.
Black Bear Hunting

Anti-Hunters Drew at Least 23 Percent of Florida’s Black Bear Tags, According to One Local Activist

By Dac Collins

grizzly bears alaska
Grizzly Bear Hunting

Do Bears Hold Grudges? The Legendary Tale of a Wounded Alaskan Grizzly

By Jim Rearden

A Michigan hunter with a black bear.
Black Bear Hunting

This 97-Year-Old Tagged a Bear After Waiting 9 Years to Draw a Tag

By Bob McNally

Freel with an interior Alaska Grizzly
Black Bear Hunting

I’ve Killed Dozens of Bears. Here’s What Actually Makes a Great Bear Gun

By Tyler Freel

A black bear walks across a meadow in a national park.
Black Bear Hunting

163K People Just Applied for 172 Florida Bear Tags. A Bunch of Applicants Were Anti-Hunters

By Dac Collins

An illustration of a black bear sow facing off with hunters.
Black Bear Hunting

I’ve Lived in Bear Country My Whole Life. Here’s What Happens When Bears Don’t Back Down

By Ted Updike

Cornell's Big Red Bear mascot on the floor at a basketball game.
Bear Hunting

Ivy League College Kids Who Butchered a Black Bear in Their Dorm Had the Cops Called on Them

By Dac Collins

An illustration of a man's rifle backfiring into his face.
Grizzly Bear Hunting

I Was 20 Yards Away from a Big Boar Grizzly When My Rifle Misfired — and Blinded Me

By Frank Glaser, as told to Jim Rearden

A black bear swats a dog out of a tree
Black Bear Hunting

A Black Bear Killed Hundreds of Sheep Over the Years. My Dogs Finally Caught Up with Him

By Carl T. Johnson

A vintage photo collage of Fred Bear with a goat and a grizzly.
Grizzly Bear Hunting

Watch: Footage of Fred Bear Hunting His First Grizzly, with the Legendary Razorhead Broadhead

By Fred Bear, as told to Ben East

An illustration of a sow grizzly defending her cub against a giant brown bear.
Grizzly Bear Hunting

We Stalked a Cannibal Brown Bear That Was Trying to Kill a Cub

By Leon Francisco