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Hunter takes rare Caswell County bear
David Barker of Semora, N.C. had seen one black bear over the past three years while deer hunting in Caswell County, and it was only a trail-camera photo. […]
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Deer of the Year
640-pound bear killed in Edgecombe County, N.C.
For Michael Taylor of Raleigh, N.C., a routine bear hunt on Dec. 17 in an Edgecombe County swamp thicket turned into a monumental experience when a 640-pound male black bear stepped out 15 feet from him along the trail without any dogs or any other hunters in sight. […]
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Morganton, NC hunter kills big bear that broke 440-pound scale
Matthew Chapman of Morganton, N.C. has killed his share of black bears over the years, but he’d never killed one so big that it broke a scale while determining its weight. That’s exactly what happened when he killed one in Burke County on Nov. 9 during an evening hunt. […]
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Winston-Salem firefighter kills huge bruin on Thanksgiving afternoon
North Carolina is rightfully credited with having the world’s biggest black bears, but almost all of those enormous specimens come from the eastern third of the state, which features what is possibly the world’s best habitat for bruins. […]
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2017 SC bear season was second best on record
According to Tammy Wactor, SCDNR Wildlife Biologist and Upstate Black Bear Coordinator, the 2017 Bear Season was the second highest season on record. […]
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Upstate bruin is largest of 2017 season
Phillip Gosnell, a 36-year-old water treatment operator from Landrum, took the largest bear of the Palmetto State’s 2017 bear hunting season. […]
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Swannanoa native kills 500-pound bear in Beaufort County
Zeb Nichols, a 59-year-old Swannanoa native learned how to hunt bear and train hounds in North Carolina’s mountains But he and his friend’s soon discovered the state’s biggest bears live along the N.C. coast. […]
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Beaufort, NC teen kills 705-pound bear
Branson Long of Beaufort, N.C. turned 13 on Nov. 18, but the biggest birthday present he could have gotten didn’t arrive until Dec. 3: a 705-pound bear that’s the biggest ever taken in Carteret County. […]
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Bear harvest numbers down from last year
The 2016 Mountain Unit Bear Hunt harvest numbers were lower this year than in the past several years because of poor hunting conditions and an overabundance of food. […]
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North Carolina’s 2015 bear harvest up 20 percent
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission set a goal in 2013 to slow down the state’s expanding black bear population, increasing hunting opportunities in hopes of an raising the annual harvest to around 25 percent of the state’s bruins. […]