[Malsua]

I've had so many NBEs I can't count. (Near Bear experiences)

I've stepped out of my vehicle and had a bear under 10 feet from me.

I've had them come up to the screen door to my kitchen, sniffing away after we've put our "bear garbage" away.

I only take out our weekly garbage an hour or two before the guys come to get it.

Several years ago before I was taught by the black bears up here in Sussex county NJ, we bought a "bear proof" rubbermaid can. The bears drug it up the hill about 300 years and gave up when they couldn't get at the lobster shells inside.

This round is a one shot, one kill Bear round, but I think I'm not allowed to have it in Jersey. Not sure, but I have them and only intend on using it for bears anyway.



I get bears on my deck, my yard, all over the place. My understanding is that this idiot fed this bear and then lets a kid out there. Bear thought "ooh, look at that, lunch and it's still alive, woot"

The problem with bears is that they are always on the move, you see them, you get about 30 seconds for a picture and thereafter it's over. Here's one.

[JerseyHighlander]

"Until a child dies," it's the only way these unthinking, fuzzy warm feeling, SUV driving environmentalists in NJ will be pushed off the "high moral ground" they have built upon the suffering of some poor family in the near future. Last fall there was an incident very similar to this in my town, yet immediately the "No Bear Hunt" people were given all the media attention, and not the extremely stressed out parents of the nearly slaughtered young child.

I have photos nearly identical to yours Malsua, including one of a bear trying to eat my neighbor's little dog who was trapped in an enclosed deck.

[Dan from Michigan]

I never knew Jersey had bears until I saw the FR threads about it. I saw two up hunting two years back, but North Michigan is known for them.