I live in a rural area. There was a mid-sized bear, probably 300 pounds, making a regular run on the local garbage cans. Bears are fast, smart and dangerous. He was living in the vacant fields near me as I sometimes saw him heading back there. Then, along came massive housing developments. Haven’t seen the bear in a while. But the thing is, they find stuff in garbage with sugar on it. Sugar is like cocaine to bears. A federal forestry guy told me, “If you kill one, for God’s sake make sure it doesn’t have a tracker on it or you’ll probably go to jail. And, we can determine where it was killed even if you throw it in the back of your truck because bears never go in a straight line for more than a few yards and none of them can go forty miles per hour.” This is our government prioritizing “wildlife” over citizens.
Bears are very fast! I was sitting on our deck one day, and watched a bear walk straight for the deck, oblivious to my presence apparently. He got under the deck, and i clapped my hands and he tore out of there like evil keinevil trying to jump snake river canyon lol. Paving gravel were flying every which direction. It was astonishing how fast the bear was. When they say you will never outrun a bear, they ain’t lying.
Immediately after shooting, cut the tracker off with a knife (don’t touch it) and fling it into the brush as far as you can.