FL Officials Trap Near-Record 620 lb. Black Bear

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May 24, 2013

FL Officials Trap Near-Record 620 lb. Black Bear

By CJ Lotz

A black bear trapped and released in Florida this week was just four pounds shy of the state record. The 620-pound boar was spotted pulling aluminum siding off a shed while trying to scavenge for food in trash cans.

A Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission trapper caught the bear in Lake County and biologists sedated it, collected hair samples, and attached an ear tag. The big bruin was then relocated and released.

Read more at the Tampa Bay Times.

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from RJ Arena wrote 3 weeks 1 day ago

I've seen blackies that big in PA, did not know they got that big in Florida, would not like to see him in my garbage cans!

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from Gary Devine wrote 3 weeks 1 day ago

The state of New Jersey stopped black bear hunting in 1970 because bear numbers were low. In 2002 the state's Fish and Wildlife Department started up the bear season again. On Thursday December 8th 2011, a New Jersey black bear was taken by John Noon and weighed 776 pounds setting a new state record. It took six hours and 11 people to get the bear out of the woods, according to NJ.com. But Noon's record only lasted for 24 hours.
On Friday the following day another New Jersey hunter named Bruce Headley took an 829 pound black bear. The NJ record Headley bear is the second biggest black bear ever harvest in the United States.

A New Jersey state official told me many monster bears in New Jersey are swimming across the Delaware River and getting killed in the state Pennsylvania. Florida is another state that has no bear hunting. Any state that stops bear hunting will have giant monster bears growing up to twenty to thirty years old. Check out the photos of these two New Jersey monsters taken in 2011.

www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1646665

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from Gary Devine wrote 3 weeks 1 day ago

By the way, when you bring up the attached link don't forget to stroll down a little.

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from tleichty1989 wrote 2 weeks 5 days ago

Before 1925 in Michigan bears could be taken in anyway at anytime. But since then we have regulated hunts: when the harvest quota is met the season is over. People generally think that Michigan black bear don't get very big but there are a few monsters wandering around out there. A while back there was a 700 lb black bear killed by a combine, in Chippewa county

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from MICHMAN wrote 2 weeks 4 days ago

Hopefully he has been dining on Pythons!

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