Man breaks 30-year record for largest black bear ever harvested in Western North Carolina

On Oct. 18, 2022, a Haywood County man, Caleb Henry, part of a larger hunting party, killed what is now the largest bear harvested on record in the western region of North Carolina, as recorded by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. The male black bear weighed in at 695 pounds, smashing the prior record of a 688-pound bear killed in the early 1990s in Madison County. (Photo courtesy: Jeff Teague/Chime In)