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Grizzly Bear Hunting

I Guided Teddy Roosevelt and Zane Grey, But This Grizzly Hunt Was One I’ll Never Forget

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Predator Hunting

Thermal Scopes: Good, Better, and Best

By Scott Einsmann, Andrew McKean

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Black Bear Hunting

This Group Is Paying Hunters $2,000 Not to Use Their Tags, in a Final Effort to Thwart Florida’s Bear Hunt

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Black Bear Hunting

Pennsylvania Hunter Tags Biggest Black Bear of the Season with His Wife’s Lucky Rifle

An illustration of a grizzly bear tumbling down a mountain as hunters get out of the way.

Grizzly Bear Hunting

A Grizzly Stole My Son’s First Deer. So We Tracked the Bear Down

By William J. McRae

An illustration of a bear biting the hand of a West Virginia houndsman.

Black Bear Hunting

A Black Bear Tried to Kill My Dogs. Then It Turned on Me

An illustration of a man, Frank Glaser, flying off a sled led by sled dogs.

The Legend of Frank Glaser, the Toughest Woodsman Alaska Has Ever Seen

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The Day My Sled Dogs Took On a Grizzly — and Won

By Frank Glaser, as told to Jim Rearden

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Black Bear Hunting

The Ex-Communist Bear Baiter of Saskatchewan

By Andrew McKean

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Grizzly Bear Hunting

I Thought Alaska Had Beaten Me. Then, Finally, I Saw the Biggest Brown Bear of My Life

By Kenneth C. Kellar

The new state-record sow black bear in Maine.

Black Bear Hunting

Maine Guide Snares a New State-Record Black Bear

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Stop Shooting Bears Here; Hunter Education Has Failed Us on Bear Anatomy

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Black Bear Hunting

Anti-Hunters Drew at Least 23 Percent of Florida’s Black Bear Tags, According to One Local Activist

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Grizzly Bear Hunting

Do Bears Hold Grudges? The Legendary Tale of a Wounded Alaskan Grizzly

A Michigan hunter with a black bear.

Black Bear Hunting

This 97-Year-Old Tagged a Bear After Waiting 9 Years to Draw a Tag

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Black Bear Hunting

I’ve Killed Dozens of Bears. Here’s What Actually Makes a Great Bear Gun

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Black Bear Hunting

163K People Just Applied for 172 Florida Bear Tags. A Bunch of Applicants Were Anti-Hunters

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Black Bear Hunting

I’ve Lived in Bear Country My Whole Life. Here’s What Happens When Bears Don’t Back Down

Cornell's Big Red Bear mascot on the floor at a basketball game.

Ivy League College Kids Who Butchered a Black Bear in Their Dorm Had the Cops Called on Them

Predator Hunting

Hunters Tag ‘Dragon-Size’ Alligator in Mississippi’s Ross Barnett Reservoir