Samuel Wiltzius from Marquette shot one of the heaviest black bears killed in Michigan during the 2022 season while hunting over bait in the Carney Bear Management Unit in the southern U.P.
It was the biggest bear entered in the annual Big Bear Award Contest sponsored by the Michigan Bear Hunters Association.
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