Bear Hunting(Page 2)

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

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Grizzly Bear Hunting

We Tracked Down a Killer Grizzly — and It Almost Ended in Tragedy

By Gordon D. Gosling

A black bear walks across a meadow in a national park.

Black Bear Hunting

Florida Commission Unanimously Approves Black Bear Hunt, Despite Anti-Hunting Rhetoric

An illustration of a hunter with a jammed rifle facing off with a black bear on its hind legs.

Black Bear Hunting

I Was 10 Feet from the Bear I’d Been Tracking All Day. Then My Rifle Jammed

By Carl T. Johnson

A black bear falls out of a tree in this illustration

Black Bear Hunting

I Wanted to Hunt Black Bears with My Bow. My Guide Didn’t Trust Me

Hunters in red buffalo check

Grizzly Bear Hunting

After 25 Years of Big Game Hunting, All I Wanted Was to Tag an Elk

Illustrated and written by Bob Kuhn

Two hunter with a record grizzly bear.

Giant Grizzly Taken in Alaska Is a New Record, Confirms Boone & Crockett

Anti-hunters line the street holding signs that protest the Florida bear hunt.

Black Bear Hunting

Anti-Hunters Will Attempt to Sabotage Florida’s Bear Hunt With This Dirty Tactic

By Alice Jones Webb

An illustration of grizzly hunters

Grizzly Bear Hunting

My Wife Wanted to Hunt Grizzlies, and No One Could Talk Her Out of It

By Ralph Hammer

A black bear stands next to a backyard fence in Connecticut.

Black Bear Hunting

Florida Just Approved a Black Bear Season. Connecticut Could Be Next

By Alice Jones Webb

bear hunting in alaska

Black Bear Hunting

Bear Hunting with My 7-Year-Old Daughter Has Taught Us Both Some Important Lessons

A vintage black and white photo of a man darting a bear from a helicopter.

Grizzly Bear Hunting

16 Incredible Vintage Hunting and Fishing Photos from an Alaska Wildlife Refuge

By Natalie Krebs

Polar bear lifts paw walking across kelp

Two Tourists Got Pissed They Didn’t Get to Photograph Polar Bears Because of Native Hunters

By Natalie Krebs

An illustration of a charging bear

Grizzly Bear Hunting

I Stalked America’s Most Dangerous Game in the Riskiest Place Possible

By Frank C. Hibben

A blue color phase black bear, also known as a glacier bear.

Black Bear Hunting

I Tagged the First Glacier Bear Ever Taken by a Modern Bowhunter

By James F. Martin

A trail camera image of a whitetail doe protecting a fawn from a black bear.

Black Bear Hunting

Stunning Trail Cam Video Captures the Moment a Black Bear Pounces on a Fawn

By Alice Jones Webb

An old cowboy ropes a California grizzly bear

Grizzly Bear Hunting

When Grizzlies Ruled California

By George Laycock

Florida black bear hunt proposed

Black Bear Hunting

Florida Is Finally Considering a Black Bear Season Again

By Natalie Krebs

A bear snarls in an illstration.

Grizzly Bear Hunting

A Grizzly Killed Two Bears, Then Charged Me Next. He Should Have Been a World-Record

By Ace Demers, as told to Tom Stacer

What does a black bear eat? In this case, a mouthful of dandelions.

Black Bear Hunting

What Do Black Bears Eat?

By Natalie Krebs

A bear swipes at a hunter and his hounds

Black Bear Hunting

My Buddy and Our Hounds Were No Match for the Ghost-Town Grizzly of Old New Mexico

By Frank C. Hibben

A Louisiana hunter with a black bear he harvested.

Black Bear Hunting

Veteran Tags Potential Record Black Bear During Louisiana’s First Bear Season in Decades

By Jonathan Olivier

A young boy in a blaze orange hat poses with a large black bear.

Black Bear Hunting

Sixth Grader Tags Nearly 600-Pound Black Bear While Hunting with His Grandpa

By Alice Jones Webb

Black Bear Hunting

‘He Was Just Getting His Dog.’ Virginia Houndsman Dies After a Black Bear Falls on Him in Freak Hunting Accident

Human hands stretch out a giant bear paw.

Grizzly Bear Hunting

I Fought Off a Brown Bear with My Fishing Rod, and Other Close Calls While Living in Remote Alaska

By Scott Haugen

An illustration of a big black bear and a hunter

Black Bear Hunting

I Shot Michigan’s State-Record Black Bear on Thanksgiving Day

By Bob Haataja, as told to Ben East

A 7-year-old hunter and her dad with a bear, turkey, and buck.

Black Bear Hunting

7-Year-Old Earns a Pennsylvania ‘Triple Trophy’ After Tagging a Black Bear, Buck, and Gobbler This Fall

By Natalie Krebs

moose sniffs barrel

Black Bear Hunting

Video: Bull Moose Sniffs Hunter’s Rifle Barrel

By Richard P. Smith

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Black Bear Hunting

Bowhunter Shoots Massive 770-Pound Record Black Bear in New Jersey

Hunting Black Bears with a 6.5 Creedmoor

Black Bear Hunting

Hunting Black Bears with the 6.5 Creedmoor

By Derek Horner

A brown bear turns to look at something.

Hunter Survives Brown Bear Attack and a Gunshot Wound on Kenai Peninsula

By Alice Jones Webb

A german shepherd lounging on a porch

Minnesota Man Charged with Killing His Neighbor’s Dog While Under Investigation for Poaching Deer and Baiting Bears

By Alice Jones Webb

You Go I Stay feature story from Outdoor Life

Grizzly Bear Hunting

Fred Bear in Alaska: Bowhunting a World-Record Brown Bear

By Fred Bear, as told to Ben East

An illustration of an Outdoor Life story about a killer grizzly.

Grizzly Bear Hunting

My Months-Long Hunt for a Cattle-Killing Grizzly, from the Archives

A grizzly bear in a meadow.

Grizzly Bear Hunting

Alberta Brings Back Grizzly Hunting, But Only for ‘Problem’ Bears

A grizzly bear eats an elk.

Grizzly Bear Hunting

Watch: Grizzly Bear Eats a Cow Elk That’s Still Alive

old magazine illustration (hunter shooting charging bear) and title

Black Bear Hunting

The Hunt for a Man-Killing Black Bear, From the Archives

By Raymond R. Lyons

A screenshot of a video of a grizzly bear that looks like a black bear.

Black Bear Hunting

Idaho Hunter Avoids Charges for Killing Grizzly Because State Wildlife Officials Misidentified the Bear, Too

A grizzly bear in the woods near Elkford, BC.

Black Bear Hunting

B.C. Black Bear Hunter Hospitalized After Killing a Grizzly in Self Defense

A Louisiana black bear in a field.

Black Bear Hunting

Louisiana Establishes Its First Black Bear Hunting Season Since 1987

old magazine pages

Trying to Stop a Brown Bear Attack with a .38 Special, from the Archives

hunter poses in woods with grizzly bear and longbow and arrows

Grizzly Bear Hunting

Killing a Grizzly the Old-Fashioned Way: With a Longbow and a Stone-Point Arrowhead

old magazine illustration of hunter directing hounds in desert environment

Grizzly Bear Hunting

Ben Lilly and the Desert Grizzly, From the Archives

By Frank C. Hibben

An illustration of the last grizzly bear in Colorado attacking a hunter.

I Killed the Last Grizzly in Colorado

Black Bear Hunting

Houndsman Killed a 400-Pound Bear with a Knife to Save His Dog and Hunting Buddy

By Richard P. Smith

massive north carolina black bear feature

Black Bear Hunting

This Could Be the Heaviest Black Bear Ever Tagged in North Carolina

wisconsin black bear ties record

Black Bear Hunting

Bowhunter Officially Ties Wisconsin State Record for Largest Black Bear

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Black Bear Hunting

Trolling for Bears in British Columbia

By Alex Robinson

Grizzly paw and 6.5 Creedmoor cartridges

Grizzly Bear Hunting

Grizzly Hunting with a 6.5 Creedmoor

boy with a black bear

Black Bear Hunting

A 7-Year-Old Boy’s First Bear

Hunter Ty Bell stands on a ridge in Idaho grizzly country.

Return to Scout Ridge

By Alex Robinson

Ideal shot placement for where to shoot a bear is a slightly quartering-away bear like this one.

Black Bear Hunting

Where to Shoot a Bear, and How to Recover It

Tyler Freel with black bear

Black Bear Hunting

Bear Meat: Everything You Need to Know About Eating Bears

Bear Hibernation: Uncovering Black Bear Denning Secrets in Arkansas

Black Bear Hunting

Bear Hibernation: Uncovering Black Bear Denning Secrets in Arkansas

By Natalie Krebs

big black bear with .30/06

Black Bear Hunting

The Best Bear Cartridges

grizzly with ear tags in meadow

Grizzly Bear Hunting

Where Do All the Problem Bears Go?

By Christine Peterson

Jim Carmichel with rifle and bear.

Jim Carmichel’s Favorite Hunting Rifles

By Jim Carmichel

old illustration of hunters with dogs in swamp

Black Bear Hunting

A Creepy Bear Hunt in the Great Dismal Swamp, From the Archives

By Arthur Grahame

Grizzly Bear Hunting

Are Grizzlies and Polar Bears Hybridizing in Alaska?

Hounds treeing a black bear.

Black Bear Hunting

The Best Bear Hunting Dogs

By Brodie Swisher

Black Bear Hunting

The Best Ways to Use Bear Fat

a killer sloth bear in India

A Killer of Men: The Story of a Deadly Sloth Bear, From the Archives

By Frank C. Hibben, introduction by Tyler Freel

A brown bear on Afognak Island

Black Bear Hunting

What Is a Stopping Rifle—and Do You Need One?

Freel with the black bear that became aggressive

Black Bear Hunting

If You Live in Bear Country, Then You Already Know—Bears Must Fear Us

Brown bear research

Grizzly Bear Hunting

LaVern Beier: The Bear Man of Southeast Alaska