RE: Bear hunting the hard way.
I had one a few years back and I swear ... it looked like a black VW Bug moving through the woods the first time I saw it. When he came into the yard one afternoon his back was taller then my 55 gallon burning barrel standing upright. A bear hunter guide friend of mine came over one afternoon(the bear we later named Fred... came to my house at 3:15 every afternoon so he must have hadrounds he was making.. as I fed deer and him too) and estimated him at over 500 pounds and I thought that was huge.