Minnesota black bear season has been hot this fall,report from earlier this month has a monster in the books~
Duluth News Tribune
Hunter shoots 700-plus-pound bear in northwest Minnesota
By Brad Dokken on Oct 15, 2017 at 7:00 a.m.
Jan Johnson of rural Roseau, Minn., shot this bear Oct. 1, 2017, in the Malung-Pencer area of Roseau County in the No-Quota Hunting Zone. The bear weighed more than 700 pounds live weight on two different scales and 602 pounds field-dressed. Photo courtesy of Jan Johnson
ROSEAU, Minn. — Jan Johnson knew the bear was in the area, and he knew it was big.
He was right; it was.
Johnson, of rural Roseau, toughed out a gloomy, rainy afternoon of bear hunting Oct. 1 and came home with a black bear that unofficially weighed 721 pounds live weight.
Duluth News Tribune
Hunter shoots 700-plus-pound bear in northwest Minnesota
By Brad Dokken on Oct 15, 2017 at 7:00 a.m.
Jan Johnson of rural Roseau, Minn., shot this bear Oct. 1, 2017, in the Malung-Pencer area of Roseau County in the No-Quota Hunting Zone. The bear weighed more than 700 pounds live weight on two different scales and 602 pounds field-dressed. Photo courtesy of Jan Johnson
ROSEAU, Minn. — Jan Johnson knew the bear was in the area, and he knew it was big.
He was right; it was.
Johnson, of rural Roseau, toughed out a gloomy, rainy afternoon of bear hunting Oct. 1 and came home with a black bear that unofficially weighed 721 pounds live weight.