An enormous black bear broke a state record for heaviest harvested bear on the first day of hunting season, Maryland wildlife officials said.
A Garrett County woman hunted down a 643-pound male black bear, making it the largest bear on record to be killed during the state’s hunting season, according to an Oct. 25 Facebook post from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
The previous state record for the largest harvested bear was a 615-pound male, Maryland Department of Natural Resources game mammal section leader Jonathan Trudeau told McClatchy News in an email. A bear the size of the one caught in Garrett County this year is “very uncommon,” Trudeau said, and it would be “extremely unlikely” that another bear heavier than 643 pounds would be harvested in 2023.
If this bear ate from trash cans and dumpsters he was probably a diabetic.
Should have taken the bear’s picture and let it live. Wild animals just want to survive too, like that reader that post every Friday.
That’s bear stew for a year. If you kill it, you eat it.