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    Quote Originally Posted by wareagle69 View Post
    always makes ya wonder whats out there looking at ya, we have allot more cougar sightings up here, black bears i am not concerned about but being stalked by a grizz thats really got to get in your head, bet ya didn't feel like top o the food chain there maybe top o the supper list
    A grizzly will follow you just to see what you are doing. If a black bear is following you, he's trying to decide whether to eat you raw or let you ferment awhile.

    We have a saying up here when attacked by a bear.

    If its brown lay down

    If its black fight back

    Oh and file the front sight off your .44 Magnum pistol so it don't hurt so bad when the bear takes it and shoves it up your butt.
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    Well, I'll have you know that I was once tracked by a 7 pound rabbit. Let's recap. Midwest...rabbits....don't eat you.
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    A seven pound rabbit! Thats enough for two. How did you cook it?

    Grandpa always said to run from'um until you catch'um. I'm not sure yet but I think he was talk'n 'bout women. But he could have been talk'n 'bout rabbits and such.
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    The easiest way is to catch them sitting next to a tree. Sneak up behind them and, while they aren't looking, tie their ears around the tree. While they are figuring out how to untie them you can skin 'em and drop 'em in the pot.
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    You are walking through the woods and you come to a tree that has the bark scraped off starting about 2 feet up to about 8 feet high in strips less then an inch wide and 6 to 15 inches long. There is no bark laying on the ground.

    What could have done it and why?
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    Flipped on the tv this morning before a few appointments. Grizzly Adams was on. The scene where Robert Redford said "I'll skin as many bears as you can bring me." was on. The wise old man came running through the skinning shack with a grizzly hot on his heals. He ran out the back door yelling "here's your first one, I'll be back with another!"

    Started laughing.....saying to myself - there's ole Klkak running through the shack while any one of us are inside.
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    Quote Originally Posted by crashdive123 View Post
    Flipped on the tv this morning before a few appointments. Grizzly Adams was on. The scene where Robert Redford said "I'll skin as many bears as you can bring me." was on. The wise old man came running through the skinning shack with a grizzly hot on his heals. He ran out the back door yelling "here's your first one, I'll be back with another!"

    Started laughing.....saying to myself - there's ole Klkak running through the shack while any one of us are inside.
    Umm, are you sure it was Grizzly Adams? Or was it something else?

    Maybe Jeremiah Johnson
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    You are correct - Jeremiah Johnson. Still made me think of you.
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    Bear. Marking territory.
    Me. Bear chasing me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by crashdive123 View Post
    You are correct - Jeremiah Johnson. Still made me think of you.
    Why thank you Crash. I'll take that as a compliment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick View Post
    Bear. Marking territory.
    Me. Bear chasing me.
    Not quite what the answer I was looking for.......But good try...,
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick View Post
    Bear. Marking territory.
    Me. Bear chasing me.
    Now I don't know this first hand you see. But I've heard you can tell what kind of bear just chased you up a tree by what it does next. If it climbs up the tree after you its a black bear. If it shakes the tree until you fall out then it a grizzly.
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    Can you see claw marks - or knife marks on the tree?
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    There are definitely marks from something very hard in the wood.
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    I was told by a guide in Alaska that curved toenails were the sign of a black bear and straight were the sign of griz. I never tracked either one to prove or disprove his assertions.
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    A person. Using the inner bark for food. I missed the no bark on the ground the first time. Bear would have left bark on the ground.
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    At first I was thinking bear going after insects, but that would have left debris. I'm guessing human.
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    Quote Originally Posted by klkak View Post
    You are walking through the woods and you come to a tree that has the bark scraped off starting about 2 feet up to about 8 feet high in strips less then an inch wide and 6 to 15 inches long. There is no bark laying on the ground.

    What could have done it and why?

    This tree would be aspen, or birch but would not be spruce or hemlock.....???

    And the larger limbs might be scored the same....?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hopeak View Post
    This tree would be aspen, or birch but would not be spruce or hemlock.....???

    And the larger limbs might be scored the same....?
    Hope you keep youre prickly 2c in your pocket.

    And it could be birch, aspen, cotton wood, etc...,
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    OK - another guess. Since it's between two feet off the ground, up to eight feet high, and there is no debris on the ground. If it's not human, I'm guessing large animal. Do moose eat tree bark?
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