My wife and I dicided to scope out a new deer hunting area within the South Mountain Game Lands and the area looked really promising - white oak acorns everywhere, but hardly any deer tracks at all. After hiking for a couple hours, and not seeing much deer sign, we ran across an old fire road littered with tracks, but not the kind we were looking for. They were all over the place going in all directions. We think we may have spotted several dens but since it was getting late in the afternoon, we bugged out and headed back to our vehicle. We saw cub tracks, with bigger ones alongside them, and those to were going in all sorts of directions. Then we saw some really nice tracks, with no signs of cub tracks accompanying them. My shoe size is 11 and is roughly 5 inches wide. I'm curious if there's a way to estimate the size of a bear by its tracks? The first pic are some of the bigger ones we saw. The next several were a little different, adjacent to my wife's size 9 keen boots. FWIW, the rain stopped roughly an hour or two before we started our scouting trip. Any input would be greatly appreciated. My wife and I may take up bear hunting
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