Request your sightings of Brown/Cinnamon/Chocolate colored "Black Bears" on the Kenai Peninsula (Only). Need not be current year sightings. Request rough general area where bear was seen, and when seen. Thank You.
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Brown/Chocolate COLORED Black Bears on the Kenai Peninsula...Sightings
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Brown/Chocolate COLORED Black Bears on the Kenai Peninsula...Sightings
"Essential......to Prepping for Survival, is to be able to segregate, what you think will happen, from what you hope will happen, from what you fear will happen, from what is happening".Tags: None
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I have spent many springs and falls glassing mountains and baiting all over the kenai and prince William and have seen probably thousands of bears. Not a single one that I could confirm was color phase and not just a small brown due to distance. Really there was only one that I thought might be one and it was not on the peninsula.
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I believe I mentioned this on another thread some time ago. Awhile back we moved into a different house. I have my beautiful little 5' sow black bear hide hanging over a place where the sun will lightly hit it now for just a little while. One day while coming out of my bedroom I happened to glance over at the hide with the sun on it. I saw what I can only describe as an almost dark coffee colored sheen coming off it. I picked it up and examined it closely as I had never noticed it before in the other house and always just thought it black. That hide sits next to the 6'4" boar I killed a couple years ago. With the sun on it as well there is no comparison to the color.....the boar is black as black can be, but the sow is definitely a real deep dark chocolate coffee color. By all accounts it looks black but it's not. Both bears I killed on the Kenai. The sow was in the Cooper Landing area.Sheep hunting...... the pain goes away, but the stupidity remains...!!!
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Originally posted by sh View PostI have only seen one off color bear, near summit lake 10 or more years ago. was kinda cinnamon color, a real beauty. that's out of probably over 600-800 bears I have seen in over 30 years down there.Sheep hunting...... the pain goes away, but the stupidity remains...!!!
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I guess sighting (around) 23 bears a year is possible. I personally am happy with a # much lower than that thoughroud:
I think about hunting when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day. And I think about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm doing it. ~credit to Carl Yastrzemski~
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One year ( 2001 i think) , we actually kept count of every bear we saw , cubs and all. We stopped counting at 120 or so. That was the peninsula and as far north as denali state park. Since then i have noticed a large drop in black bears on the peninsula, and more browns. With good optics, and looking in the right places it is easily possible to see lots of them as long as they are in reasonable numbers.
The one i really wanted to nail was a coal black griz up in the interior, but he was out in the middle of an area unapproachable on foot.
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Originally posted by sh View PostThe one i really wanted to nail was a coal black griz up in the interior,Sheep hunting...... the pain goes away, but the stupidity remains...!!!
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There's been a sow with cinnamon cubs hanging out at 16 mile Glacier Hwy (about 1 mile from my place) all spring. They are yearlings. She had a new black cub that I haven't seen in a while. They are regulars on the highway and love eating dandilions.
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Originally posted by L. G. View PostThere's been a sow with cinnamon cubs hanging out at 16 mile Glacier Hwy (about 1 mile from my place) all spring. They are yearlings. She had a new black cub that I haven't seen in a while. They are regulars on the highway and love eating dandilions.Sheep hunting...... the pain goes away, but the stupidity remains...!!!
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