800lb Black Bear LOL

[bankwalker]

I seen one bear over 400lbs, I stalked within 50 yards of it this year so I had a very good look at it. I passed up shooting it because I was by myself, no pack frame, and on the Olympic national park boundary quite a hike from my vehicle.
And a bear that size deserves a lot better chase of not going to waste/spoiling while I gave a pathetic attempt to get it off the mountain

I do admit though, I was very bad at judging bears in the past (still not the greatest)...but after joining this site and seeing a good number of bears posted along side the guys who killed them it helps give a honest size comparison

Beside that one huge bear. I doubt I have seen more than one other bear over 300lbs. The biggest I've looked to be about 200-250 at very most. Most look like average size dogs

[johnr060]

Lots of monster bear stories out there. My good buddy shot a 300 pounder two years ago and that was the biggest bear we had seen in two seasons of hard hunting. This year i saw this guy in person once and about sh** myself. Biggest bears ive seen anywhere in the state have been in kitsap county.

[inchtowntracking]

We have caught one bear at 468 weighed. And maybe two more in the fours and ten in the threes most bears we catch are 250 and lower. Just not enough food or long enough of a season for them to gorge themselves. To get really big. ( just in my opinion)

[Dan-o]

Laugh if you want, but I've seen several 800 pound bears, and have gotten pics of a couple of them.

I'll prove it to you.  As soon as I find my camera, Ill upload the pics.

[Dan-o]

And if you don't believe me, just check the Big foot thread.   

My Big foot pics are LEGEND!!!

Speaking of 800 pound bears, I rarely shoot anything smaller.   Carry on.

[SemperFidelis97]

And if you don't believe me, just check the Big foot thread.   

My Big foot pics are LEGEND!!!

Speaking of 800 pound bears, I rarely shoot anything smaller.   Carry on.

Is that anywhere near c-post by any chance (sorry had to say it since Rtspring, or miles hadn't yet)

[Dan-o]

There is tons of 800 pound black bear sign all aound C-Post.   How did you know?

[Huntbear]

Damn bear can be anorexic and weigh 150 lbs. as long as he has a 23 in. skull!!   

[Ripper]

  I used to work with a young guy that told us all with a straight face that he wont even consider shooting a bear under 400 lbs. He swears that he has shot a bunch but he has no pics to prove it. Hunts near Quilcene. Say's his ex-wife took all the photo albums. Had some great stories also. This is the same person who swears on his families life that over near Curlew he see's a thousand deer a day. All you have to do is show up and pic your deer. He never did take one of us hunting with him. Some people have all the luck!    Even if it's just in their heads!

[shoot-em-dead]

So I buy the tag every year but have only made it out bear hunting once. No expert   I grew up in upper Michigan and I remember people talking about big bears all the time. 400-800 lbs.   Do they get bigger up there or do the people have the same hard time guessing size?
 

[CoryTDF]

My buddy shot a bear last night. Took it to the truck scales and it went 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000lbs. No *censored* no lie.


seriously though he shot a really nice bear with a hollow white diamond on it's chest. Very cool looking bear thinking it weighed a little over 200# cant be sure as it never hit a scale but that is my best guess.

[ouchfoss]

Wasnt there one killed last year in Minnesota or some place that direction that actually was an 800 pounder? It was killed in a wheat field by a farm or something to that extent. I remember reading the article on here about it because it was in the news about how F-ing huge it was.
I have seen a few in the wild that I would guess are in between 300 and 400 and that is a SCARY huge bear but a 800 lbs one I would assume would look like a VW beetle walking thru the woods and I have yet to see one to verify they exist, ... yet 

[NWWABOWHNTR]

I seem to go the opposite and underestimate bears.  I have passed bears because they were "too small", only to help someone pack out bears that were the same size, and scaled 175 after being gutted.  My buddy shot one from a tree stand last week,  he called on the radio and wouldn't get out cause there were other bears growling and carrying on ( he had his bow) and it got dark.  So we walked into his stand, with guns drawn, and got him out.  Tracked the bear 40 yards and it was piled up.  WHen I came under the branches and seen it, looked like a 150lb sow piled up.  When we started rolling it over to gut it, well it was a boar well over 200, nice fatty and 5'8" nose to tail.  Pretty bear too a  nice dark cinnamon. 

[CoryTDF]

Found this but have to realize these are rare. I got the information from
http://www.americanbear.org/Size.htm 
I dont think we will be seeing anything like this in Washington state.

What is the record weight of an American black bear?
The world record weight for an American black bear is 880 pounds. This was the recorded weight of a 10.75 year-old male bear shot in North Carolina in November 1998.

A black bear was hit and killed by a car near Winnipeg Canada, in 2001. The official recorded weight was 856.5 pounds, but it is estimated that the live weight of this large male was more than 886 pounds. The driver was not injured and there appeared to be little damage to the Mazda.

An 805-pound male American black bear was shot in Manitoba Canada, and in Pennsylvania males fairly consistently reach the record weight of 800+ pounds.

[Austrian Hunter]

Not to jack the thread but can you guess the score and weight from the skulls?  Left was my 2011 Bear and right my 2010 bear.  Both bears are on this site.