Brent Glover drives from his hometown of Washington over to Martin County to bowhunt a couple of farms that he and two friends lease out. With a camera set up to inventory the activity in the back of a cut down, Glover was able to capture the snow-capped black bruin that struck a chord with NorthCarolinaSportsman.com viewers who voted it as the most remarkable photo.Glover wins a Sportsman Gear Package and a one-year subscription to North Carolina Sportsman magazine.
His Moultrie D-50 Trail Cam snapped the image on the evening of Dec. 27.
“Snow in Martin County … and did I mention one large bear, too?” his caption read.
Glover estimated the bear to weigh 400 pounds, and added that they have never taken a bear off of their lease.
“I had a bow stand set up for a late-season hunt in this area, but once the big bear set up shop, there was a lot less deer activity,” Glover said. “Before that I had lots of trail cam photos of bobcats, foxes and deer, but when a bear gets on your feeder he generally will stick around until it runs out of corn.”
Glover ties his timed feeders off high in the trees because bears are known to yank them down if they can reach them.
Glover did harvest one doe this year with his bow, and he runs three trail cams all season long on his lease.
“We are about an hour from the coast and we had a lot of snow this year, and I just happened to get this bear photo just right,” Glover said. “I wanted to enter it on the website Trail Cam contest because I like to check what other people are sharing all the time.”
He said the site has been a real benefit to him.
“Two years ago I sold my boat using the classifieds section on NorthCarolinaSportsman.com,” Glover said.
Finishing in second position for the January Trail Cam voting was Garrett Williams for his entry of three bobcats walking through a food plot. The title for the photo, which was taken in Harnett County, was “Moma Bobcat with her little ones.” The image of the three bobcats is striking because these cats are usually seen alone, but this was a rare look at a bobcat family taking a stroll to mark their territory.
The third most popular trail cam photo in January was Michael Johnson’s entry of an 8-point buck showing the business end of his antlers to a fat raccoon that was intent on eating corn at the feeding station. Johnson’s photo was taken in Johnston County, and he called it “Will Fight For Food.”
The Trail Cam Contest enters its final stage of voting next when the five monthly winners will be in a competition for yearly bragging rights and also for a new Trail Cam from NorthCarolinaSportsman.com.
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