What is this?

Discussion in 'Trail Cameras' started by bradn4201, Dec 13, 2016.

  1. bradn4201

    bradn4201 Die Hard Bowhunter

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    I don't know if this is a dog or a bear? I think a dog because this is the only pic I got and I feel like a bear would have been moving slower??? What do y'all think? 41879.jpg
     
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    Pictures a little too small for me to tell.
     
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    No.6Hunter Die Hard Bowhunter

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    Looks like a bear with his head down possibly..hair looks like a black bear more than a dog id say
     
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    Bear

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    Pretty sure that's a bear. Unless it's a dog that lost half its ear in a perfect arc.
     
  7. bradn4201

    bradn4201 Die Hard Bowhunter

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    That's 300 yards from where I killed my doe this morning, never seen a bear up there before, even on camera. hmmmmm
     
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    I watched a bear in a field one evening and within 3 minutes of him going back into the woods, I watched a big buck come into the field not 100 yards from where the bear went into the woods.

    That looks like a bear to me too.
     
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    It's a black bear.
     
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    Dang Sasquatch lol.
     
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    Looks like a bear with his head down, as mentioned. There was a bear down in my neck of the woods (5-D) a few months ago (on the news), where they just aren't supposed to be. It happens.
     
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    We had one on camera last year about 10 miles from this spot. Just never on my Papaw's land.
     
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    There's a good chance you'll never see him in person or get another pic. I had one coming in all the time and would only get a glimpse of his paw before he turned my camera a different way. This happened about 6 times and I gave up. We also have 10 to 20 bears where we hunt each year and only seem to see them when they are out of season.
     
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    I'm always reading how bears mess w/trail cams. What about mounting it higher up out of reach? Maybe in a tree too skinny to climb? Just wondering if they would tear down the tree to get at it.

    I'm just asking- I know next to nothing about bears, in spite of my avatar.
     
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    Looks like a farmers pig. Neck doesn't look like bear, too long.
     
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    I use the bear proof box on all my trail cameras, helps from getting stolen.
     
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    On a late season hunt in my area a number of years ago I saw a big coyote, which I got good video of. In 14 years of hunting this area, it was the first one I've ever seen, and haven't seen one since. I never even got one on a trail cam in the past. Makes you wonder.
     
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    I still think it's a bear but I googled wild hog images and came up with a few that had rounded ears...I've never seen one in the field before and all the ones I'd seen on TV had pointy ears so I didn't even consider that

    pig.jpg
    pig2.jpg

    could be, I guess...
     
  20. bradn4201

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    I've killed pigs before, but those were in South GA. I'm not saying someone's pig couldn't have escaped, but I would say it's a better chance of a bear than a wild pig.
     

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