Black Bear

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Last year proved to be a much better year than some of the folks I interviewed for the 2011 forecast…»

Much lighter and less expensive than a backcountry portable electric fence for bears.

Here’s a quick look at a product that helps me sleep here in bear country. It’s called the CAPSS (Camp…»

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The stellar jay sitting in the small pine tree quit squawking and looked nervously around. Something had bothered it. It…»

Trapped bear

Some of the more bizarre stories that come our way generally involve surviving inside a hollow log, or beating a…»

Jason Babin

It’s no secret that some professional athletes — quite of a lot of them, actually — are pretty avid hunters.…»

Mama grizzly and cub

Nothing gets as much play in the media as people getting mauled or killed by animals. And while it may…»

New Jersey black bear

New Jersey has a new record black bear, but the hunter wasn’t out looking for big bruins. According to the…»

Dieter Herbert

Dieter Herbert has a lot to be thankful for. The 18-year-old Long Island, N.Y., native shot his first black bear…»

A shameful stereotype of a complex skunk ape. How dare they?

Our groundbreaking work in the struggle against anti-Sasquatchism in America continues. If you are just getting onboard with the equality…»

$40 to have a 92% chance of deterring an aggressive bear.

Brian Matayoshi would likely be alive today if he carried a $40 canister of bear repellent spray on Wednesday. According…»

Sometimes bears need a gentle reminder as to who the apex predator is.

People die in the wilderness. It is not a mall. Wild places are not safe and this is one of…»

Should "black" be a gummi bear color? This bear thinks so.

There are red, green, yellow, orange and clear colored gummi bears, but a color not represented in the candy’s spectrum…»

Bear for kayak ride

When you’re bow hunting shot placement is critical.  After you squeeze your release your job is not over, in fact…»

18 yard bear pic

I’ve had some close encounters, but this time both my nerves and hunting instincts were put to the test.   Sure,…»

bachman coming in with kayak

It’s no secret that if I could pick one place to live it would probably be Alaska, and it’s not…»

Agressive hunting ground

The past two years I’ve headed to Alaska each spring to stalk monster black bears on Prince of Wales Island. …»

Bob Kaleta of Zeiss with his bruiser black bear

Day Three was 100 percent different than the day before.  Calm, sunny and n the 50s – great bear hunting…»

Sighting in the Wild West Guns 45-70 with the Zeiss Compact Point

                                      Unlike…»

Rinella is processing this bin of bear meat into summer sausage.

by Steven Rinella Bear meat is highly edible and can be quite delicious depending on what the bear’s been eating…»

Teased about the size of this bear skin by his editor, Rinella (left) offered this awesome explanation:  "We were sort of starving on a sheep hunt. We melted some of that bear's fat and drank it, and then fried pieces of its meat in its own oil. It was really good. Those bears eat so many blueberries in the late fall that their fat turns purple." Put  that in your manly manual!

The following is the debut article of Steven Rinella’s Fare Game column, which will appear in each issue of Petersen’s…»

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By Steven Rinella A common complaint about bear meat is its unpredictable variability. No doubt this is because of the…»

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by Aaron Decker Using hunter preference point data from 2009 instead of 2010 has the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources …»

Big BC Bruins

CZ USA’s Jason Morton heads to British Columbia to hunt black bear with Petersen’s Hunting TV.

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by Mike Schoby Of all big-game animals in North America, bears are among the toughest to judge in the field…»