They Are Coming To Pork Roll Country

[BHC]

More and more every year you get more, give it time you just might have a bear season

https://www.jerseyshoreonline.com/southern-ocean/runaway-bear-spotted-in-little-egg-harbor/?fbclid=IwAR0zPjb-aWCGNTJrxajasoahzPAvAukhYqhiCJJvPdn5cAkCcKPc_tM6-FU

[Bonefreak]

Lol. 

Ol Yogi is also tired of it being called Taylor ham and is moving on down to the land of the pines!!

Saw that news in Stafford twp n forgot to post it!

Just in time for blueberry season!!

 

[vdep217]

I have this trail cam pic from 2013.  He was around till about mid october than dissapeared .  Was in colliers mill

[deadonshot2]

9 minutes ago, vdep217 said:

I have this trail cam pic from 2013.  He was around till about mid october than dissapeared .  Was in colliers mill

There is actually two them. My mechanic had them on his trail cam two nights in a row in the mill last year.

[Tarhunt]

Lock up your garbage cans. You can thank me later. 

[Deer&Beer]

Police just did a bear patrol past my house.  The bear close to home.

[Mixbaghunter]

If they don't open season on state land there will more and more down south

[Deer&Beer]

Police just did a bear patrol past my house.  The bear close to home.

[Swamprat]

I think theirs more bears down here than some think.  

I think the farmers get rid of them.  Can't have bears chasing their seasonal workers. Lol. So I've heard.  Lol. 

[Woodsman416]

It's perfectly normal for this time of year. Most are adolescent males that have just been kicked out by their mothers so she can breed again. More dominant males push them from their territories and they wind up in some pretty strange places.

Edited June 6, 2020 by Woodsman416

[Bucksnbows]

Pork rollers, how many more do you want?  We’d be happy to ship some downstate! 

[mazzgolf]

7 minutes ago, Bucksnbows said:

Pork rollers, how many more do you want?  We’d be happy to ship some downstate! 

 Please keep them up there. If you send them down here, we'll be forced to retaliate and send some chiggers up your way.

 

[Bucksnbows]

5 minutes ago, mazzgolf said:

 Please keep them up there. If you send them down here, we'll be forced to retaliate and send some chiggers up your way.

 

We’ll keep the bears 

[BowhunterNJ]

They probably got a taste of pork roll and said F that Taylor Ham crap.  

[mazzgolf]

I always wanted to bring this up but didn't want to be laughed at   But this thread is an appropriate time.

Now, before I say anything, let me show you these pics - they are pictures of the rear window of an SUV during spring time. And **before you read anything below** take a look at these pictures and ask yourself, "What do I think these are a picture of?" Side note: I'm not 100% sure what they are myself. What do YOU think they are?

 

 

 

OK. Now the story.

This happened my first year hunting (actually, my first season hunting anything - this was spring turkey season 2013, it was literally like my 3rd day of hunting - my Mazz stories started early. )

Now, the important part of this story (and what makes it weird) is the location - this is Gloucester County. Not "Cape May" South Jersey, but it's South Jersey. And it's not deep in the Pinelands either. To you guys up north, listening to this story you'll be like "so what?" but to us in the south, it's a big deal (it is to me anyway, especially at the time being my first hunting experience).

Me and a friend are hunting another buddy's private place. We parked in a small parking area next to some buildings and set up a blind no more than 150 yards away from where we parked. Early morning, in the blind, my buddy whispers to me, "Look over there, I think I see one. I saw a black blob moving." [remember,  we're spring turkey hunting]. Well, we never saw anything after that, and never heard gobbles or clucks, nothing. But the movement was in the direction where we parked. Several hours pass, and we pack up to go home. We get to where we parked the SUV, and on the SUV's rear window we saw what you see in the pictures above.

Now - does that not look like bear paw prints to you? Not a large bear to be sure, but it looks like a bear. As if the bear stood up on its hind legs, put its front paws on the window, and looked inside the window to see if there were any goodies inside? And the green is the spring time pollen sticking to the morning dew on the window, which is how the prints stuck there.

That's the first thing that came to our minds when we saw it - and then we remembered my buddy seeing this "black blob" moving around earlier that morning and we thought, "Did we just have a black bear walking around here?"

We showed the pix to our friend who owns the property and he thought we were joking around (by his reaction, I realized it wasn't HIM trying to play a joke on US). But we swore those prints were legit.

I've never seen (nor heard anyone else seeing) a black bear down here. I know it isn't unheard of, but a black bear in Gloucester County would seem to be a big deal if it really happened.

Anyway, as I say, you guys up north are probably rolling your eyes, but to me it was a big deal. And I swear if I ever saw a bear in the flesh while walking around in the woods, I'd pee myself.