bear in back yard

[thunder river outfitters]

for the past month or so my wife and i have been replacing bird feeders left and right. after a few plastic sets of bird feeders i told my wife , "they dont makem like they used to".....then i started to think, we might have a problem with a bear or 2. her father had made this heavy duty bird feeders for us and that didnt last long. a couple weeks ago we stopped feeding the birds and all the trouble had stopped, i never seen any bear tracks or any other sign. so today my duty was to head out back and fix/clean all the bird feeders laying around that yard. WELL THAT DIDNT LAST LONG. i looked out back to see what i was going to need and there it stood, midday (12:15), all 450-500lbs of black mass looking down on me from about 40 yards away.......i didnt know what to do but clean my shorts....HOLYCRAP.
my wifes camera was just inside the door...so i grabbed it and snapped a quik photo.
our cockerspanial( tiny dog with alot of bark) decided the bear had crossed the line and let him know..i only got the one pic because of our dog but enjoy.

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=35&pictureid=9611

[jeffthedj]

WOW! thats a big looking bear!! I would have been running in the house for sure!

[chuckinduck]

That is a dandy, can you get a closer picture of him tomorrow? :)

[srconnell22]

Sissy! Slap that bicycle helmet on and go hand to hand! Gosh...I didnt realize you wore pink pajamas to bed...:lol:

In all seriousness, that thing is freaking huge!

I guess Thunder River Outfitters is now offering bear hunts...

[thunder river outfitters]

That is a dandy, can you get a closer picture of him tomorrow? :)


ill get right on that chuck.....:yikes::yikes:....NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

[thunder river outfitters]

Sissy! Slap that bicycle helmet on and go hand to hand! Gosh...I didnt realize you wore pink pajamas to bed...:lol:

In all seriousness, that thing is freaking huge!

I guess Thunder River Outfitters is now offering bear hunts...

pink?...i like fusha sorry:lol::lol:...lol

we have always did bear hunts....shows how much you know..lol

its one thing being in the woods with a side-arm.......its a whole different feeling being w/out one....like ummmmmm helpless??????..lol

[The Nailer]

That is really cool! We have to take our feeders down by the end of April at camp or the bears destroy them. I was at camp this week for a couple of days. When I first arrived i noticed my McKenzie target was in the middle of the yard. A quick look and I see it has claws marks raking the hind quarters. They destroyed my other target several years ago when we we still building. It had the same marks on it, but the legs were broken off. Imagine his surprise when he attacked and it didn't run. I didn't think a bear would attack a full size deer, but this is the second one, unless maybe it was that Cougar every one talks about:yikes::D

[michigander88]

It was a Cougar, I know it was, I probably seen it!!!!

MI88

[thunder river outfitters]

It was a Cougar, I know it was, I probably seen it!!!!

MI88

lmao:lol::lol: if you would come and vist every now and again, you would have seen it:yikes:
its been back twice in the past week.

fanci (paris hilton) misses you.:lol::lol::lol::lol:

[pikemaster789]

wow awesome

[Whit1]

It was a Cougar, I know it was, I probably seen it!!!!

MI88


BAD MG88! If you keep that up you'll be banished to sit in yon corner........:lol:

I agree with the comments about the size of that bear and in a word he's a biggin'

[Boardman Brookies]

I had one come through the yard here in downtown Traverse City last week. It was in the paper. Another one was spotted right up the road. Crazy!

[old graybeard]

Your gonna need a bigger feeder;)

[6inchtrack]

My sister in-law drew a Gladwin BMU tag.

[BillBuster]

That looks like a big bear.

[thunder river outfitters]

this bear is fair game come bear season, all private land and boarders manistee river.
this is in the redoak area.

[Huntinman225]

Maybe I should have read this post before I sent you that Message LOL-LOL

If this was at Gladwin, I would say that that is who smashed my door in and drank all my booze :lol:.

[michigander88]

Did you get broke into again???

[bigsablemike]

look at that big shoulder hump,sure thats not an escaped bison?

[Huntinman225]

Did you get broke into again???


I Dont Know you tell me LOL -

it's happen twice since the new neighbors of 2years and never in the 7 years before that.

[thunder river outfitters]

i dont know you tell me lol -

it's happen twice since the new neighbors of 2years and never in the 7 years before that.

dont hi-jack my thread...lmao

mark (michigander88) did have alot more liquor this past season.