Texas Bear?

Didnt kill a deer this weekend but did get a very interesting picture on my camera. Im 99.9% sure its a bear, that or a man in a bear suit! What do yall think? This is south of Sheffield Texas!

Hog. Look at the curly tail.

Dont think it is a bear though.

You will be 99.9 percent next time you go and your feeder is all jacked up like youve never seen.

Lots of bear pics this year

That appears to be a bear. Nice lil something extra to think about walking out to the stand opening(every) morning

Hog??? it has paws!! Are you serious?

Look at the feet. Not a hog for sure. Almost looks photoshopped but there are bear in that area from time to time.

If that's a hog, it's got the funkiest hooves ever.

Bear for sure. Cool pic, hope he doesn't screw everything up.

I can assure you its not photoshopped, i have better things to then get on here and trick you guys

How far south of Sheffield? Those are some big oak trees in the background? You bowhunting that feeder?

That's a bear!

Yes im bowhunting that feeder, the bear walked about 10 yards in front of my tripod

Gonna make that next morning walk in pretty exciting I can tell you that.

Yes it did, dont know if yall remember the thread about the lion we called in at night but this is the same place. Now i have lions and bears to think about!

LOL! Seriously! Hunt much?

The walk would be exciting...but the wait in the stand before first light would probably get me more. Every critter that crinkles a leaf would send a shiver down my back

I hunted about 15-18 miles north of Sanderson towards Ft. Stockton just west of were the Hwy turns toward Sheffield in 1994 for mule deer. One of the guys had a corn feeder in draw called Big Draw close to the Longfellow. He said just before dark a large black animal come in between him and the feeder, run the deer off and then turned towards him and stood up on its hind legs. Was 100% sure it was a bear but ground was to hard to see tracks.

Surprised nobody has chimed in with "Chupa!" by now. So I will...

It's a Chupa!

Pretty crazy, you get emails about a bear from time to time in that country but never guessed i would have a picture of one when i pulled my sd card

It's an escaped Snow Monkey!!!!!!!! Lol!

The biologist on the ranch we hunted said that they had started to move into Texas from Mexico a few years before that one was spotted out there due to the bad drought in Northern Mexico. Now with trail cams there are more and more of them being seen.

has anyone else seen any bears in those parts??

say goodbye to your feeders! You think coons are a problem, wait till the bear gets through with your feeders.terrell county

Nice bear trap. Need to tie a rope onto that rock so when that bear pulls on the rope he gets a headache.

on the positive side, there are people paying good money to shoot those up north! man how cool would it be to harvest one of those with a stick n string in your own back yard!

Me and a buddy saw one near there going to del rio a couple of years ago

Let them feed and breed and eventually in 10 or so years

Where at South of Sheffield? I've seen them on the Poulter, Turk, and my cousin sees them on her ranch periodically (Packingham). These ranches all kinda border eachother. Also, across the road south of "terrell plant road" we had pics of them on the Brown ranch. Went out one morning to find my box-blind flipped over and huge claw marks on it. I just went back to camp.

bear

Cool pic

If the picture was from Africa I would say gorilla. I guess a bear?

That has to be a joke!!


Looks like a bear to me!

That's pretty cool. Was watching the Today Show this morning while getting ready and they had a story about a bear getting in some folks house. That couple was pretty torn up.

Those morning walks will be very interesting!

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LMAO!

And I thought the coon trying to crawl in the tree with me this weekend was bad .... might want to invest into a Chloe won't be much help this year but next year you can be a lil more protected.

Nah it's Big Foot hes so tired from coming from the north hes trying to walk on all 4's

You might check before you pull the trigger i talked to a game warden about this one time and he said at one time black bear were native to texas and since there is no hunting season for them they are illegal to shoot

Bears are cool too, unless there trying to eat you !

I didn't know there were liveoaks near Sheffield,that is definitely a bruin though.

Ive seen a Bear in Red river County.

Red river has quite a few sightings each year.I think that's pretty cool.Wouldn't be cool trying to keep them from your feeder though.

I hunt a couple of counties over in Sutton. This spring we had several miles of old pipeline pulled up out of the ground by the state. While pulling the pipe the guys working the backhoes claimed they saw a couple of bears on our lease. I think it's very possible we may see more bears in that area in the years to come.

We've got bear warnings posted here in Cass county

it's a bear!

Boobie-trap!!

black panther!!!!

I hunt between Sheffield and Sanderson off of 2400. Where is your place?

never seen a HOG with PAWS

It's illegal to hunt them, but no one can say anything about self-defence!!! If it was my stand, my new concealed gun would be a .44 mag!!

Legit Bear Sighting...

its a bear , but dont shoot it might cost you a big ticket , plus if they keep breeding they will open a bear season sooner or later

I can vouch for there being oak trees in Sheffield, I actually peed on the far left one in that pick...have fun walking Jones

Many times I walk to my stand without using a flashlight, but I would change my ways if I found that on my camera.

CHUPA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hunt by Big Bend and I know they are trying to reintroduce them in that area and from what I hear they are doing just fine and spreading out.

Big ole bear!

It's definitely a bear, but those have got to be the biggest trees in Pecos County. Good to see bears in that country.

We have bears in red river co. Never messed with the feeder

Added some lighting and cropped the pic. I'm voting bear!

Smokey on patrol LOL.

You just need some tigers and you'll be set.
Lions and tigers and bears. Oh My!!!

Are you kidding me? Look at the ears.

Clearly an elephant.........

We have a place a few miles north of Sanderson and got several pictures of the same bear the past couple of months. Talked to the biologist and back in March there were some big wildfires in the mountains in Mexico just south of Sanderson and it pushed a lot of bear up.