bears

[redhead25]

I talked to my cousin in Greenville yesterday and he told me that they killed over 55 bears in the two week season in the upstate this year. He said several were killed over the 450 lb. range with a few over 500 pounds. They said DNR told them that the bears are booming and they look to have bears as low as Saluda and Newberry in thenext two years. How far down have you guys seen these nuissances? And yes I know I am setting myself up for some great answers here.

[BOGSTER]

Are you sure they aren't stray trash bags floatin on a breeze?

[Turd Ferguson]

I think they killed 7 last year in Myrtle Beach! (Whorry County) on Hwy 22 with cars

[WC's feather duster]

There was a sow and three cubs around the top of Lake Moultrie about two years ago.

[SaltMuck]

Seen a few at a couple different times on the farm in Loris (Ho-ree county that is).

[romeocadet08]

i have seen numerous bears while hunting at Snow Mill plantation in Carver's Bay. That place is absolutely "ate" up with bears. We have dozens of trail cam pics with bears on them all over the club. The club was approx. 8,200 acres. I have video footage of a sowl and 2 cubs that was taken right on the Black Mingo creek.

I have even seen sign in the FM national forest before. There was one that was killed by a vehicle a fews years ago off HWY 402 in cordesville. It was all over the papers.

M2field has a buddy that actually hit one in the FM this past turkey season. It was off of HWY 41 inbetween jamestown and cordesville. After he hit it, he called DNR...they showed up and removed the bear. The contact did some pretty heavy damage to the fellow's truck.

[tradorion]

Took a couple out of Downtown Georgetown this year...

Saw one years ago in Lexington County...

Had to move a dead one out the road in Carver's Bay in G'town last Friday morn.

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[Swamp Rat]

Years ago, we had a bear come out of Fort Jackson onto Shady Lane in Columbia... and another found it's way into a trailer park off Percival Rd.

The common denominator for both was Fort Jackson, and it probably linked them both to the Wateree River basin via Colonels Creek....

[WhitewaterDuck]

My dad told me that Rudy Menke (SP?) had come over to Camden to investigate what someone thought to be bear tracks and sign around the back of his property and that Rudy confirmed that it was indeed a bear. Had one passing through the lake Wateree area many years ago that was sighted and reported by several people, but this is the first I've heard of one since.

[joduck]

We have seen numerous bears on our deer club in Hemingway.

One of my buddies ran up on one the other morning while trying to get into the stand.

[Chap]

Folks see them all the time around here (no surprise), but I have yet to. My dogs will start barking like crazy at all hours of the night, but that could be anything. The bear sightings are usually around the peach and apple orchards. Too bad there is not a season in Spartanburg Cty.

[romeocadet08]

we have a pic of one big SOB that tore apart the automatic tripod feeder. Each picture showed him ripping it down, pouncing on it, and tearing the plastic drum apart to get to the corn.

Bears stink like nothing else. They just come out to the corn pile, plop down on their stomachs and use their 2 front legs like arms to pull as many ears of corn to them as possible. They will wipe out an entire cornpile in one night. Right before they leave, they always shit everywhere around the corn pile. It usually ruins a stand for a few days.

[DuvnDux]

I talked to professional trapper a few years ago at the Sportsman Classic who does some contract work for DNR and he said that there are more bears passing through the midlands than we would ever believe. The common link between the upstate and the coast is the river systems. The bears travel the rivers and because they tend to be secretive, they tend not to be seen. Kinda intersting when ya think about all the drunks camping on the banks of the river during the poker run.

[Ring King]

Roy Nader, an old friend of mine that has long since passed away, was one of the first residents in Pimlico Plantation on the Cooper River below Moncks Corner. He had pictures of three black bears on the lake bank right there in the neighborhood. I've never seen a bear there or any sign, but the possibility always exists!

We didn't have any hogs around there for the 20 years I spent growing up, but they are there thick now! Along with coyotes and armadillos. You just never know what you'll see when out and about.

Next thing you know people will be sighting manatees in the lakes!

[bud-man]

They're thicker in Horry County than they are in Gtown. In the past few years at our club which is off of international drive in MB (right beside Lewis Ocean Bay), i could easily show you 10-15 different bears in a day. The second year i hunted it before i learned my lessons of not over-feedin the corn, i counted seven bears on my piles at one time! I hope something gets done about them soon cuz i wanna stick one with the bow in a bad way.

[SCTIMBER]

Originally posted by bud-man:
In the past few years at our club which is off of international drive in MB (right beside Lewis Ocean Bay),

The first time I ever saw a bear was in that area. Isn't International Drive going to be paved?

Probably the biggest number I've ever seen in one area was in Brunswick, and up in Pender Co., NC

[Sportin' Woodies]

scary.

[Sportin' Woodies]

apparant childmolestor's bait of choice.
we are gonna have to rid ourselves of bears!

[BLHinSC]

I was heading home from deer huntin in October Hwy 45 to Hwy 41S, and took Tiger Swamp Rd thru the gov't woods to avoid the Jamestown Police. Going around the long left hand curve,and a black bear bolted out in front of my truck, and I locked it up. Truck went sideways long enough for him to turn back toward the side of the road, he came from. I missed hitting him by about 5-6ft. It's hard to judge the weight of a bear, if you haven't killed or hunted them. I'd estimate two of me, which would be about 400lbs.

[bud-man]

The word is that international drive will be paved one day. They have paved it 1/2 mile or so more than it had been here in the past few years. So we'll see.....it would be a good thing if you ask me. All the Carolina Forest Development has done nothing but push more deer to my club.