[Kenton]

Let me recommend the internet newsgroup rec.hunting for you. Post your inquiry there and you'll get some respsonses and meet a lot of nice people. Good luck, shoot straight.

[foto]

Don't know about the hunting but there are alot of bears out there. LAst Saturday was fishing for trout on the pequest and at 11:00 am went to get lunch and lo and behold there were 2 bears within 50 yds of Route 46. If they are near that road during the middle of day it means there are way too many of them.( about 1/4 mile from Johnny's hot dogs and fresh buttermilk) Good luck.

[bigfootbob]

Can you use dogs and bait? If so, get a cows head and stake it out where you've noticed bears and let it start rotting. The bears love the cow head flavored maggots.

Mmmmmm, bear meat. Also, contact a Chinese immigrant and sell him for big $$$ the gall bladder. It's an ancient Chinese secret aphrodisiac.

[curmudgeonII]

Wow!!
I had no idea that there were 10,000 bears in New Jersey.

[genefromjersey]

By coincidence, there were two letters to the editor today in our local ( Gannett ) newspaper ... AND a page 2 story from Sussex County, NJ ( a somewhat mountainous, about 20 % unspoiled northern section of the state ) about a black bear walking up to, and "cuffing" a two year old boy, as his mother watched in horror.

The boy was scared , but unhurt.The writer opined the bear had merely been "curious", as it had not used its claws - and seemed a little dismayed that the (thuggish,jack-booted ?) police had subsequently shot and killed the 150lb animal.

What the writer did NOT know about black bears could probably fill the shelves of a fair-to-middling library - for example : With or without the use of claws,a bear could just about tear the head off a grown man with one determined paw swipe; that black bears are generally quite hungry this time of year; that black bears are almost totally unpredictable, etc., etc.

So: to all you NJ hunters ( if there are any of you left ! ): HAPPY BEAR HUNTING !!

[ColdSteelTalon]

Lots of Deer in NJ too. I think more than in Pennsylvania

[circles]

Homer: Woo-hoo! A perfect day. Zero bears and one big fat hairy paycheck. Hey! How come my pay is so low? ... Bear patrol tax! This is an outrage! It's the biggest tax increase in history!

Lisa: Actually, Dad, it's the smallest tax increase in history.

Homer: Let the bears pay the bear tax. I pay the Homer tax.

Lisa: That's home-_owner_ tax.

Homer: Well, anyway, I'm still outraged.

[Thinkin' Gal]

How many of these people will actually go there for the hunting?

[Coleus]

A bear attack in Alaska

The following pictures are of a guy who works for the Forest Service in Alaska. He was out deer hunting. A large world record Grizzly charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy unloaded a 7mm Mag Semi-auto into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The monster was still alive so he reloaded and capped it in the head. It was over one thousand six hundred pounds, 12'6" high at the shoulder,14' to the top of his head. It's the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world. Of course, the game department did not let him keep it. It will be mounted and put on display at the Anchorage airport (to remind tourist's of the risks involved when in the wild).

Think about it. You would be level with the bears belly button when he stood, he would look you in the eye when walking! This bear on its hind legs could walk up to the average single story house and look over the roof at eye level.

The bear had killed 2 other people. His last meal was the poor fellowon a nature hike. The Forest Service found his 38-caliber emptied. He shot6-times and hit the grizzly 4(they found seven 7mm slugs and four 38 caliber slugs in him) but obviously only wounded him since it was estimated to be 3 days prior to the bears death by the Forest Service man.

[Destructor]

I just hope yall hunt like men -without dogs!