Tonight on channel 5 news, (ksdk St. Louis), there will be areport about the growing bear population in the state. Maybe someday we'll have a season. Anyone from Missourim seeing any?


Spudrow from Mo

I have never seen one here in north central Mo.There is some pretty thick timber in the south west ,that is where I have heard of the population growing.I just dont know to much about bears.It would be alright to have some ,but around here we have so many cattle farms I think the rednecks would go crazy tring to kill any spotted.We have buffalo farm here and one of the bulls got out,man that was the talk of the year.The farmer told the sheriff to just have it shot cause he would never get it back in.And it was several miles from his farm.So this guy got picked to do the shooting,he used a .270 win it took him 5 shots to kill it.I couldnt belive how dumb they were about it .There was a crowd standing around it like a game.I even offered them my 45/70,.338wm,& my .50bmg but they said the .270 was more then enough.I dont recommend head shooting buffalo with a .270win.

We have a farm in Marion/Lewis county and some of the neighbors have reported seeing a black bear in the past. Nothing would suprise me in Missouri, we've seen a cougar and a caribou on our farm during the past 17 years.The news also reported someoneshooting a red stag a few years ago.

I hunt in Benton county, N.E.TrumanLake. I sawoneabouttwoyearsago during firearms season. My hunting buddy and I looked for tracks were it had looked like it crossed, but did'nt find any. He lives down there and has been hearing of a fewmore sightings

Haven't seen any bears yet, but my dad did see 2 bobcats during turkey season. We hunt in Putnam county, and the farmers are always talking about seeing rather large cats, way bigger than a bobcat, and finding tracks that they say looked like a bear's.