could this be a bear track....

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-an older neighbor lady said she saw a big black bear chasing a fawn...this was in my yard. This wold be very rare around here..
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No other impressions around?
Map is from 2015 article “bears on the rebound” ...oh grizzlies are making a comeback too.
Maybe carry a 10 mm, and load for bear

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Wife came running up to the shed and barns late this afternoon, wanted to see if my brother and I had our guns with us. We did. Mine a .45LC SA, his a Grudge. She had just seen a bear in the lower field and while she was watching, out cam a cub, then another, then another, then another adult and then another cub. Two sows and four cubs. Two weeks ago we had one in our backyard tearing out the posts the bird feeders were on. I did say were. One post pulled out, all feeders destroyed. I find their tracks in the mud after a rain.
 
They are plenty of Bears around here, the small community that I drive thru to go to work, had pictures posted of bears in front of the municipal building, which is on the edge of town, they normally do not bother anything, they are just looking for food.
They are just a nuisance, like deer.

My buddy RIP had bear camp where he hunted them, the problem was we would camp there on the holidays, ride four wheelers and side by sides, the sob's would trash the campsite during the middle of the night if you did not keep a huge bonfire going, looking for food.
His camp was on the top of a ridge in BFE, you had better have a 4x4 just to get up to camp on a dry day.
 
I've seen wild hog tracks like that if the rear foot steps in the front footprint.
 
ohio ..about 75 miles from PA line -they have been seen roaming in Ohio but are not considered to be living here...we are near a lot of ravines and a river..
 
They are around here all the time, one got in my neighbors garbage and one got hit on the Cumberland parkway not far from my house last year. Last week there were two in a field on the greensburg rd. Guess were going to have to get used to them being around. I hate those black buzzard's that have migrated in my area the most. There killing newborn calf's and one pecked the eye out of my friends cow last week, we used to only have turkey buzzard's here and they are harmless.
 
Probably not.

That one track is heavy and fast tho. How soft was the soil when you found it?
A bear moving fast like that would leave a pad mark.

What did the rest of the stride look like?

I'd more say big cat or more likely a dog.

What ever it was was packing at least one long claw tho...

Claw length looks like black bear the more I look at it..

To bad that leaf is over the top of the print.
 
surely there has to be a better print than that in the area as wet the ground appeared to be.
 
Come home to this! Lots of bears in the LA foothills coming down to cool off. Makes for some interesting videos....

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You say there was a deer involved. I would say that track is actually 2 tracks of a deer that are side by side with one partially on top of the other. A deer's splayed hooves would makes 2 long ruts and if it was two tracks as I described then it would look exactly like that. Seen it many times.

Jack
 
Coyote Jack you hit it on the head. We found some more (big) deer tracks not too far away - this was definitely a coupled of them on top of each other ...oh well, so much for all the excitement in the neighborhood... hey I don't want any around here anyway- enough coming up on a big coyote now and then.. I've read these ones in Ohio cross bred with wolves long time ago - seeing them up close I believe it. thanks all for input to my apparently idiotic question..
 
Coyote Jack you hit it on the head. We found some more (big) deer tracks not too far away - this was definitely a coupled of them on top of each other ...oh well, so much for all the excitement in the neighborhood... hey I don't want any around here anyway- enough coming up on a big coyote now and then.. I've read these ones in Ohio cross bred with wolves long time ago - seeing them up close I believe it. thanks all for input to my apparently idiotic question..

The only idiotic question is the one not asked. Nobody knows everything.

Jack
 
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