ThierOutdoors » black bear http://thieroutdoors.com Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:38:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 Black Bears: Please stop charging me! http://thieroutdoors.com/black-bears-please-stop-charging-me/ http://thieroutdoors.com/black-bears-please-stop-charging-me/#comments Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:12:27 +0000 Patrick Thier http://thieroutdoors.com/?p=391 Close encounter with black bear #3… in less than a year! I don’t make this stuff up. Honestly. Yes, it happened again. When I was bear hunting on August 16, 2013 near Mt. Adams in Washington state, I had yet another very close, hair-raising and heart-pounding encounter with a black bear... READ MORE:

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]]> http://thieroutdoors.com/broken-arrow-broken-dream-the-vanishing-bear/feed/ 0 Hunting Bear: The Downside of DIY http://thieroutdoors.com/hunting-bear-the-downside-of-diy/ http://thieroutdoors.com/hunting-bear-the-downside-of-diy/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:44:38 +0000 Patrick Thier http://thieroutdoors.com/?p=294 Every fall, one cannot help but find stories of elk camps, deer camps and duck camps in the shiny pages of hunting magazines all over the country. And for good reason. Sharing the excitement is part of the excitement itself. How does that old adage go? Sorrow shared is half the sorrow; joy shared is twice the joy. Never is that sentiment more in-your-face than in hunting camps everywhere. Our first organized bear camp, in the mountains of ...READ MORE http://ThierOutdoors.com

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