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Why Do Bears Attack? This Decades Old Database from Alaska Offers Some Hints

By Christopher Batin

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Holt Collier Was Born a Slave but Became a Legendary Bear Hunter. He Once Roped a Bear for Teddy Roosevelt 

By Paul Schullery

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My Son Could Hunt Bears with Any Rifle, He Picked the M1 Garand

By Tyler Freel

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We Hunted a Renegade Black Bear in Arizona’s Rimrock Country

By Percy Brown

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I Got Within 10 Feet of This Giant Black Bear Last Season. Now My Hounds Were on His Trail Again

By Carl T. Johnson

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It Took Me 10 Years to Tag a Bear With My Bow, But It Was Well Worth the Wait

By Bob Degenhardt

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Our First (and Last) Hunt for the Rare White Bear of British Columbia

By Howard Shelley

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

By Bob Edge

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

By Don Walker

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

By Tyler Freel

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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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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

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

By Bob McNally

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

By John McCoy

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The Ex-Communist Bear Baiter of Saskatchewan

By Andrew McKean

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Maine Guide Snares a New State-Record Black Bear

By Bob McNally

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

By Dac Collins

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

By Bob McNally

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

By Tyler Freel

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

By Dac Collins