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Glad to see that this thread has fallen victim to hijackers. 
Anyway, the return trip was interesting, to say the least. Things out there aren't much different during the day than they are at night. It was still darker than hell because the treeline on either side of the road is about as thick as mud. We ended up pulling off to the side of the road about a hundred yards from the deer, which was still there, but had obviously been run over two or three times by passing cars. The tire marks from my peel-out last night were still there, obviously. It creeped me out just seeing them.
I was going to stay in the car at first, but that lasted about fifteen seconds once the guys who went with me started walking away. We spent about two minutes checking out the deer to see if we could figure out what had happened to it. The hole in its midsection was a bit more than halfway through. It stunk to high heaven, but it looked like it had only been there for a day or so. It had to have been killed at some point yesterday. It was obvious that it wasn't a car, though. Some kind of predator had definitely done the job.
At first, we argued over who was going to climb down over the rail and down into the ditch where we saw the "thing" last night. There was a wide gap in the trees that went back about fifty feet from the road, but beyond that was another solid wall of trees. We finally just forced Joe, the guy whose idea it was in the first place, to go check things out.
He was out in that clearing for all of about sixty seconds. He looked around at the ground for a moment, stopped, kneeled down to look closer at something, and then stood up and came bolting back toward us. Of course, we freaked because we could tell that he had found something. He climbed back up the embankment, over the rail, and it was only then that I realized that he had a big stupid grin on his face.
"It was a bear. A really big bear."
At first, I thought he was shitting me, but he swore up and down that they were bear tracks. Eventually, I decided that I had to see them for myself. We all followed him back to the spot. Sure enough, they're definitely bear tracks.
We snapped a picture, which I forgot to get from Joe because he left in his Bronco and I wasn't thinking about it at the time. I was just relieved that it was at least something normal.
Still, though. There is one BIG FUCKING BEAR still out there in the woods... and I'm pretty damn sure that it tore up that deer. That doesn't sound like normal bear behavior to me.
Case closed, I guess.
I hope. 
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