Boo Boo Is In The House. (Bear)
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S&W Fan
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Looking for that free meal that always seems to be available to them in that area. Black bears in the Old Forge area don’t know wether to shit or go blind when it comes to foraging for themselves. Tourists have been stupidly feeding them for decades now.
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Saltwater60
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I have only ever seen two black bears in my life at a distance driving. I’ve been to old forge many times and never seen one. Alleghany been there more times than I can remember and never seen one. I camp at plenty of state parks and nope never seen one. A guy even told me they didn’t have them at letchworth state park because it’s too far north when I complained I had not seen one. I responded you do know they have them in alaska right? He was confused.
Deplorable Me
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He heard something about bear arms?
Side note... grew up in Rockland and don't recall seeing a black bear except for behind a cage at Bear Mtn State Park. Just before we headed upstate for this past weekend the neighbor across street knocked on door and wanted to tell me to be careful and that he saw a black bear cub near my wife's car who then headed across street through his property and back in the woods. Didn't really think anything of it before this thread. Used to see a lot of black bear when we were living in Orange County. Anyway really cool pics keep the food locked up and stay safe. Momma bear probably near by...
stokes
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I've seen more bear since I moved to Columbia County on the Mass border 7 yrs ago than I've seen my entire life. There was one female that had cubs for the first 2 yrs I ran across her.Always a very close encounter along the same 1/4 mile or so along a trail nearby.There are 2 corn/hay fields the trail goes thru.She would always come flying thru the brush that lines most of the field within 50 feet or so of me. First time the dogs chased she was within ten ft of me, almost ran me down. When she appeared without the cubs my dogs started chasing her.Last summer a large male moved into the area, it was during mating season and it seems he kicked her out of the area,we've seen him 5 or 6 times since.The dogs aint so eager to chase him and he mostly appears he aint giving ground.They did run him off a deer kill one day in Feb, thought that was gonna be the end of them but he gave up as soon as they sounded and started to run at him. I figure the deer was probly taken down by coyotes and he fought them off and filled his belly, may have thought my dogs were the coyotes coming back and was too full to fight.
MothMan
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The 2nd thing the park staff tolds us upon check in was “there has been a lot of bear activity in campground”. Good info! 
S&W Fan
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I’ve seen many black bears in the wild. Most but not all in the Adirondacks area. Used to hunt them up in the grass river area when I was much younger. Never got one though. I did almost get trampled once by a big male black bear while hunting. He was being chased by other hunters and nearly ran me down getting away. THAT was pants pissing exciting !
S&W Fan
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I had another encounter with a good sized Female black bear and two of her older cubs once. Years ago When I was a scout master I booked a camping trip for all the scouts and family members at Raquette Lake. I had a game warden come in to talk to the kids about bear safety and the importance of keeping your camp clean and food free. Unfortunately some young drunk campers down the trail were never schooled in proper wilderness camping and left their dirty cooking pans and coolers all over their camp site. Needless to say that attracted bears all weekend as they came and went . I and a couple of other parents had to run them off several times in the night. Once they tore through all the crap left by the shithead campers they came looking for scraps in our site. I’ll tell ya, a mother black bear doesn’t back down so easily when determined.
Carlos Hathcock
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Had one at my house in Evans a few years ago.
masterswimmer
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Like Mr. Grutt, we see them in our backyard here in Orange County often. They're a sight to behold when they're right outside your door and you're basically trapped inside. A bit of role reversal.
I've walked up to some big ones unexpectedly numerous times. Walk out of my basement door and around one car only to be 10' from one sniffing around the garbage cans, which I keep empty until garbage pickup day for that very reason. I must say my heart does skip a beat when I get that close to a black bear. They can be intimidating.
spat
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If I ever shot one, I'd have the "arms" stuffed and mounted...
