Wouldn't bother me a bit, but these mid-westerners seem a bit skeered of black bears.:D (the griz is a different story)

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I saw a bear crossing the road on 32, between Boss and Bixby Mo. a few years ago. It was about 2:00am and I was on my way to Montauk to do some trout fishing. Nobody believed me :( until we talked to a game warden and he confirmed that there had been several bear sightings in that area. :D He told us that they were coming up from northern Arkansas. The area I saw him in was in the Mark Twain forest.

there's bear right here in Illinois......

right here!

on the plate in front of me!

wife made me a bear meatloaf for supper tonight, mmm-mmmm!
with white cheddar mac & cheese!
a glass of wine, (what kind of wine goeswith bear meat?)
white grenache, box wine!
home made key lime pie for desert!

yowza!!!

That dont count, you drove that bear to Illinois.

there are black bear in the Sikston area also, we were building a pole barn for a horse ranch in that area and around 5am we were just getting started and there stood momma and a couple cubs bout 50 yards from us we didnt do anything cause mother bears will not tolerate anything being close to their cubs so we pretty much just stood there without moving as they went by.

Location: Gods Country


You wanta talk Gods country ?
Did you see the picture from his tree stand during his bear hunt ?

bear in SIkeston surprises me, I didn't think there was enuf timber there, I would say anywhere in Missouri is possible to hold bears though.
I remember one of the guys that used to work at Baldwin told me he saw a bear years ago at the strip mines between lenzburg and marissa, not sure if I believe that story or not, but anything is possible, just the rivers that surround our state on the southern side would hamper migration of black bears. Sandy was that guys name, he did know that lake bottom, he let me in on a lot of bottom structure in the lake that most people don't know about, when I would look for them I almost always found them right where he said.

I worked for a company that hauled lumber and ties out of the Mark Twain and several of the drivers swore they had seen bear....Bixby, Van Buren, Steeleville, Camp Zoe, Reynolds...those areas...

i pig hunt in missouri in mark twain forest and last year when we were talking with the conseration officer she was telling us were they had seen pig sign and then told us were there was bear sign out but said we cannot shoot the bears

A guy that comes into work was showing me 6 different black bear pics he caught on his trail camera. He lives in st. genevieve mo.

Wow I didn't realize they had gotten that close...My brother swears there's some small brownish ( he keeps calling them honey bears???) that live over by Baldwin somewhere..and one of my Home Health patients that lived on Shawneetown trail used to swear he had a black bear in his woods..but he saw lots of other things the rest of us didn't...LOL

A guy that comes into work was showing me 6 different black bear pics he caught on his trail camera. He lives in st. genevieve mo.

hey shawn, see if you can get your coworker to let you post those pics on here, I would and I'm sure everyone else would like to see them.

the guy that used to be the caretaker for our company farm west of Perryville about 10 miles, (he passed away last year), swore he saw a "honey bear" at the farm a few years ago, i'm not sure what the difference is in a honey bear and a black bear, I'm guessing age, and one of the girls that works in our office said she saw a black hog cross the road right in front of her vehicle about the same time at the same farm, so maybe the caretaker saw a hog and thought it was a black bear or vice versa, either one or both are possible.

I saw a black hog along interstate 55 about 7 years ago just south of the Ozora exit, he was a lean young one running along side the edge of a corn field, looked like a feral hog to me.

http://www.ceres-co.com/store/images/honey/honeybear.jpg

The real honey bear...

...and here I thought I was "the Honey Bear". Guess Mrs. F has been wrong all these years..LOL..or was it the gals at the Rev?..Hmmmm:)