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Bear Hunting

The best bear hunting tips, tactics and adventures for black bears and grizzlies.

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Grizzly Bear Hunting

How My Guide’s Quick Thinking Saved a Kid from an Enraged Grizzly Bear

By Jules Ashlock

Babe Ruth poses with two other hunters and various dead game animals.
Black Bear Hunting

I Deer Hunted with Babe Ruth. He Tagged a Nice Buck and Wrestled a Cow

By Bob Edge

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Bear Hunting

Stalking This Massive Costal Brown Bear Was the Greatest Experience of My Hunting Career

By Scott Haugen

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Grizzly Bear Hunting

Fred Bear’s Wildest Hunt: The Day He Faced a World‑Record Brown Bear at 20 Yards

By Fred Bear, as told to Ben East

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Grizzly Bear Hunting

Alaska Man Contracts Mysterious ‘Seal Finger’ Disease in What Officials Are Calling a Medical First

By Tyler Freel

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Grizzly Bear Hunting

The Alaska Bear Hunt That Tested My Entire Family

By Kenneth C. Kellar

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Black Bear Hunting

I Joined a Horseback Posse to Track Down a Cattle-Eating, Dog-Killing Black Bear

By Don Walker

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Black Bear Hunting

375 Ruger vs. 375 H&H: Is the Old Classic Still the Better Worldwide Hunting Cartridge?

By Tyler Freel

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Black Bear Hunting

Anti-Hunters Tried to Hijack Florida’s Black Bear Season, But Officials Say the Hunt Was a ‘Success’ Anyway. Here’s the Harvest Data

By Kris Millgate

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Bear Hunting

Fred Bear Bowhunted All Over the World. These Two Hunts Were Too Much for Him

By Fred Bear, as told to Ben East

Ben Lilly faces off with a bear
Grizzly Bear Hunting

Mountain Man Ben Lilly’s Infamous Showdown with a Mexican Grizzly

By Frank C. Hibben

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Grizzly Bear Hunting

I Shot a Monster Interior Grizzly Bear With My Recurve Bow

By Tyler Freel

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Grizzly Bear Hunting

I Dreamt a Brown Bear Was in My Tent. Then One Actually Walked into Camp

By John B. Snow

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Grizzly Bear Hunting

I Guided Teddy Roosevelt and Zane Grey, But This Grizzly Hunt Was One I’ll Never Forget

By Jack Tooker

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

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Black Bear Hunting

The Ex-Communist Bear Baiter of Saskatchewan

By Andrew McKean