Black or grizzly

[trophyslayer]

I went up to chipmunk creek (lower bench road) yesterday and seen aproximently a 4 1/2ft bear I glassed it for a few minutes and he had the coloration of a grizzly dark brown legs and he got blonder as his coat went up his back it got very blonde on the top of his shoulders i couldn't tell if he had a hump though. My buddy from heads above the rest taxidermy was up in boston bar last saturday and seen four grizzly's coming down into a farmers field and I have also seen Grizzly up in the coquihalla forest close to he toll booth so I didn't shoot him I'm just wondering if anyone else has seen this before.

[bruin]

I also saw a bear with that coloration in the same area a couple of years ago, it was a black bear, no question.

[Mr. Dean]

Good call.
Better to keep wondering than having too deal with "OOP'S".

Ray has had his head stuck in that tanning tank, for too long... Grizz in the B Bar - Yeah,,, right. :wink:

[hunter1947]

In the cranbrook area two years ago I saw a grizzly bear that looked in color figurations the same as what you have just described ,good call on your part to pass on it.

[Steeleco]

I know of some guys that took a grizz on the east side of Harrison some time back. And I saw a young grizz walking through the parking lot at the Lightning lakes camp site in Manning.

So anything is possible??

[BiG Boar]

I camp at chipmunk 10 weekends a year. I have never even seen a bear! Good on ya for seeing it! Friends of mine saw a small one last year. Very little sign up there. It would be cool if they came back there again.

[browningboy]

Colour don't mean shit really, they're all different phases in both bears, a easy indication is the pumpkin (head), the hump etc.

[sawmill]

I saw the most beautiful black I`ve ever seen in 30 years of hunting last spring,a blonde with chocolate legs and a slightly darker mantle over her neck and shoulders with 2 jet black cubs.My first thought was Grizz but she was a black bear,just crazy pretty was all.You gotta look hard sometimes.

[Blainer]

Lot's of times these tri colored bears are actually rubs or bald spots that give the impression of different colors.
Unfortunately it is not discovered untill after they are shot.

[RiverOtter]

I've seen a few "fudge dipped" blonde bears, all sows. They are very cool looking and I dream of running into a 7' boar with those markings. Good luck, I know, but hey a guy can still dream.

RO

[Ambush]

I've found that you may mistake a black for a grizzly, but you will seldom mistake a grizzly for a black.

[Sunny]

sometime black bear have gold hair too.

[trophyslayer]

I have just talked 2 a buddy who's knows the C.O up by hope and he was saying that last fall there were 5 different grizz spotted in the skagit 3 on the american side and 2 on the canadian side. So that is getting pretty close to chipmunk

[boxhitch]

Time for the annual link to show up. See new thread.

[mud-dog27]

its too bad both of us forgot cameras