I need to prove a point.

[mevertsen]

Black

 

[Derek44]

A BEAUTIFUL color phase black bear!! Where can I find that one to fill my tag. Haha

 

[The Hedgehog]

Roar?
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Maybe a dozen years back I was drinking beers in Vegas at Shot Show with a couple friends, and maybe @Eric Albus or his cousin or brother not sure was there, but we were having a nice time. Colorado Buck was there and my friend Bryan Martin asked Colorado Buck if he was on the Vidal Sasoon pro staff. Good times.

 

[BAKPAKR]

Maybe a dozen years back I was drinking beers in Vegas at Shot Show with a couple friends, and maybe @Eric Albus or his cousin or brother not sure was there, but we were having a nice time. Colorado Buck was there and my friend Bryan Martin asked Colorado Buck if he was on the Vidal Sasoon pro staff. Good times.

Colorado Buck must not have taken offense at the comment as I saw the more recent video of his Marco Polo sheep hunt. There was some fine marksmanship displayed in that video.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Did you ask the bear which pronoun it prefers?

Just like a bunch of cis white men to assume. #triggered #sorrynotsorry #wokemothertrucker

 

[AvidIndoorsman]

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[AvidIndoorsman]

Happy Friday you filthy animals

 

[noharleyyet]

German Shepherd.

 

[beginnerhunter]

I know that is a black bear obviously. But just in case someone unfamiliar is reading this thread, what sort of characteristics do you guys look for in order to distinguish between them?

And using deer points to determine age doesn't work. Usually a large spike buck will stay a spike buck forever, need to cull them from the herd so u get better bucks the next season.

 

[Ben Lamb]

I know that is a black bear obviously. But just in case someone unfamiliar is reading this thread, what sort of characteristics do you guys look for in order to distinguish between them?

And using deer points to determine age doesn't work. Usually a large spike buck will stay a spike buck forever, need to cull them from the herd so u get better bucks the next season.

If they're listening to Jazz, it's a black bear. If it's Swedish death metal, it's a grizz.

Or: use a combination of ears, face shape, coat & hump.

 

[Otto Matic]

Like those folks who insist that you can look a deer’s teeth and tell how old it is when everyone knows you just count the points on the horns.

R-I-I-G-G-H-H-T-T!!!
(snicker, snort, chortle!)
...and a buck's hoof always leaves a splayed track while a doe's hoof does not!
A splayed deer track the length of a .30-'06 shell is a guaranteed "monster" buck with "turtty pints"!

"Yeah! I seen 'im! He wadn't a hunnerd yards away thru them trees. I counted 14 points when he ran by!"

 

[Rzrbck918]

Shoot it with your 300 RUM so you can perform a closer inspection. Or shoot it with a 6.5 Creedmoor and watch its reaction.

 

[Otto Matic]

I'm no "bear 'spurt", 'cept maybe fer Yogi and Boo-Boo, but I believe you other "bear 'spurts" would call that a "cinnamon phase" black bear.

(or is that ciminum-innum?)

 

[Gerald Martin]

Hard to believe someone would debate this. Enjoy a beer and just know you’re right.

Being right without hearing everyone agree is a cruel cross to bear.
Please be supportive. This is a kind place.

 

[AvidIndoorsman]

If they're listening to Jazz, it's a black bear. If it's Swedish death metal, it's a grizz.

This is pretty accurate.

Or: use a combination of ears, face shape, coat & hump.
Combination is really the key a black bear, especially if you just had a quick look, can have grizz like any of these.

In photos another tell are the claws






I think a good analogy to the identification issue is apple versus tomato. When you go to the store you don't confuse the two, but it's not that easy to describe the differences between the two to someone.

There really isn't any description that you can provide for a grizzly that couldn't also accurately describe a black bear. 700lbs, has a hump, brown with silvery fur, more dish faced...

 

[SD_Prairie_Goat]

Good points ^^^

Another vote for black.

Lack of hump, longer neck, and the black bear face.

 

[bennirio]

You're all wrong. It's a panda bear. I watched the documentary "Kung-fu Panda" with my kids the other day. Definitely a Panda. It's an adolescent Panda that hasn't become black and white yet.

 

[mtmuley]

You might be an idiot, but not because you call a cinnamon phase black bear a black bear.

Go ahead and elaborate. mtmuley

 

[TrumpkinTheDwarf]

If they're listening to Jazz, it's a black bear. If it's Swedish death metal, it's a grizz.

I think this needs to be my sig line.

 

[SCliving Outdoors]

Every now and then you come across a giant black bear that needs a closer look to determine if it’s a griz or not. This isn’t one of those times.