Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fred Bear crouches behind a rock, arrow nocked. I have killed five bears above the black-bear class with a bow in the last six ...

STANDING ON a brushy knoll, looking meaner and madder by the minute, loomed the biggest black bear I'd ever seen in the Maine woods. He was searching for the rotting cow's head he had hidden among ...

A New Jersey bow hunter just set a state record by killing a 770-pound black bear — a beast he’d been eyeing over the past two bear hunts. Brian Melvin, 39, first spotted the bear three years ago ...

A New Jersey hunter set a state record on Tuesday morning when he used a compound bow to kill a 770-pound black bear in Morris County. Brian Melvin told NJ Advance Media he first saw the massive bear ...

LeFLORE COUNTY, Okla. -- Years of training and persistence paid off for an Oklahoma hunter after he harvested a 300-pound black bear using a primitive bow, string, arrow and stone point earlier this ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Florida’s first bear hunt in a decade drew more than 160,000 applicants for a far more ...

Waving signs that read “Killing Is Not Conservation,” Florida black bear advocates rallied over the weekend in Central Florida and elsewhere and plan to caravan to a state wildlife meeting Wednesday ...

"I recognize this is a tough thing to talk about. It's hard. There's a lot of emotions about it. But emotions don't drive wildlife policy." That was Travis Thompson speaking in support of a bear hunt ...