Guide Jim Webber knows he’s got a bunch of big black bears visiting his bait sites. In fact, he figures that of the 22 sites he’s maintaining this bear season, about 15 of them are being visited by bruins that weigh from 300 to 400 pounds.
Two other sites, Webber said, are frequented by even bigger bears.
How big? “Almost as big as that one,” he said, referring to bear that one of his hunters, Pennsylvanian Matt Knox, took on Friday.
Or, as they’ll begin calling it as soon as the paperwork is completed, almost as big as Matt Knox’s state-record black bear.
Records are maintained by The Maine Sportsman newspaper.
Webber said Knox, an Army veteran who has served in Iraq and lives in Waynesboro, Pa., booked a trip through the business he and guide Steve Monroe own: Grand Slam Guide Service.
“He’d never been on a bear hunt before,” Webber said. Read more….