http://michiganhuntingtoday.com/hooksandbullets/index.php/2008/12/22/wisconsin-black-bear-killed-by-combine/

If you don't have time to hunt them.. then do what you have to do. This artical is about a Wisconsin farmer that killed a black bear with a corn picker combine. Good thing he did not just wake it up mad.

That thing is huge. And he somehow probably never saw it before!

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.

That's about the size bear I want to take. That would make an awesome rug for my living room.

There is a bear that was shotNovember 23rd, 1963 back in the national forest that field dressed went 665 pounds. It took eight full grown men to get him out of the woods in one piece.Now the hide is all worn out and its in ruff shape. And in the Park Falls Wisconsin DNR office there is a 531 pound (I believe it is) dressed bear that they guess would have went over 700 pounds (has it been shot in the fall instead of hit by a car in the spring), full body mounted on display. It is really something to see.

Wisconsin used to be one of the prime large bear hunting spots in the United States. The DNR has got them so shot off now that the huge ones are back in the National most the time.

See! Big and slow kills just fine.

That is one ginormous bear. He's humungos. Just a shame he wasn't taken by a hunter. He definately would have made the record book. That skull look monsterous.

How much BH209 would you need to move a combine Semi? Sounds like some homework for you.

I remember the first bear I shot. I was hunting with a 30-06. When the bear came in I thought he was huge. I busted him with the 30-06. He rolled down the hill into a log, and he flinched. I busted him again. At that time I thought I was Jerimiah Johnson. It was a great feeling. Then I climbed out of my tree stand and went over to him. I picked him up and threw him over my shoulder, he only weighed 90#. I have been catching flack from my friends for the last 30 years, and it has not stopped yet. Tom.

There's no bear hunting in my neck of the woods. The population is starting to build along the Mississippi River bottoms so maybe we will get to hunt them one day. There are, however, a lot of bare butts on Burbon Street.