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800lb Black Bear LOL
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Just had a conversation with a guy at work about the 800lb black bear that he almost shot last night! LOL
I love how big people say bears are. I have personally seen a 400lb. bear and it was F-ing huge. Most people would crap in their camo if they ever saw one as big as that. How often do you hear stories from people about HUGE bears? I know there are some big ones out there but lets be honest 99% of people don’t see them. I always get a laugh out of the crazy stories that I hear about HUGE bears. Found this quote while researching average bear weights and thought it was appropriate.
Adolph Murie, the famous naturalist, once said, "A bear a long distance from a scale always weighs more."
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lol, kinda sounds like the guys on kjr the other day talking about how big cougars are, around 350 to 400lbs tops!
it was pretty funny!
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I get a kickout of it too Cory. I see it all the time on here. Most now only say 300 pounders though, course they are more like 100 pounders.
A 400 pound bear in this state is an absolute giant monster.
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You hear it all the time, about all the 300lbs bears people see. My buddy put up a trail cam a few years ago over some apples. Best we could tell there were 6 different adult bears coming in. All between 100 and maybe 200 pounds. But no 300lbs bears
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I talked to one of the construction workers on Sherman pass and he said he seen a 600 pounder the other day walking down the highway the other day. This made my day.
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I've been in on a bunch of bear kills, and 85% are 200 and under. I do not think I've ever seen one over 400 in person.
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Maybe he was at the zoo and saw one of the grizzy bears
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It's funny .. We had a guy years ago tell us about a 1200 lb sow with 600 lb calico cubs!! This was in twist. He was dead serious about his story.. I could not believe what I was hearing .
I have taken 2 legitimate 375-425 lb bears.. 6'7 nose to tail before skinned
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Re: 800lb Black Bear LOL
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I don't know what people are thinking. Some of the people that post that stuff you expect it from them. Other just shock me, good hunters that just have no clue. People see a big bulky bear and swear they are all 300-400lbs. If I cant put it on a scale. I will always under guess them. I have only got one of mine on a scale and put the other ones atleast 20-50lbs under what they proabably would have come in at. It just makes people look very, well dumb to post a 150 bear and call it 300 or a 200lber and call it 400.
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Re: 800lb Black Bear LOL
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I know a guy that shot a 600+ pounder outta Kitsap county..... But yes most people over judge them.... My buddy called me last night to help him lift a 400# boar on the game cart then into his truck and then hang it at his place.... He picked me up and when we got there in the dark it was more like a 250 pounder when it still had guts in him....
Nice bear but not a 400er!!!! Close to 5' 8" from head to tail..... Didn't help that my friend is 5' 5" 135#
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The biggest bear I have seen from this state was 464 pound boar and that thing was scary big. My buddy couldnt move the damn thing after he shot it so he got on the CB (Yes, CB....it was the 80's ya know). He got a response from some loggers up higher on the mountain (Pilchuck). They said they were fogged in and the whole crew came down to help. They just about crapped their pants when they saw how big the bear was.
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We heard last fall during deer season about a 600 lb. bear taken up in the Colockum last year... We were talking to a couple that was driving by as we were hoofing it back to the truck... They seemed pretty sincere, but who knows...
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Re: 800lb Black Bear LOL
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Isn't the state average for harvested black bear in this state like 150 pounds?
We used to have some friends that always claimed to have a 300 to 400 pounder hanging....get there and find out it was more like 150 maybe 200....
Biggest bear I have ever seen alive or dead, my dad harvest back in i believe 1992.....Without being gutted out and weighed on truck scales it was 523 pounds.....Ya ya I know....Unbelievable!! They don't grow that big!!! Well, a couple guys on here have seen the rug and they could not believe the size of it (everyone that has seen it comments on how funny it's small head looks compared to rest of the bear, well the taxi that did the bear said he used the biggest head mount they make for a black bear and it is not near big enough! have another one hanging right next to it that was just over 400 pounds and they have the same size mounted head yet bodies are way different).....took 8 of us to load it into the back of a 1977 ford short box and with it's head bent around the front corner we still couldn't get the tail gate shut without further work......Still wish we could have got it measured before my simple life southern grandfather decided to get tipsy and throw out the skull with the trash!
What i find funny are all the guys that have killed 200 pound fully dressed out, hanging meat, mule deer! A butcher in Leavenworth has been doing game animals for god knows how many years and he says he has only seen i believe 3 bucks ever dress out over that mark! Yet every year there seem to be bunches of them taken!
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Re: 800lb Black Bear LOL
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I think I remember an Outdoor Life article back when I was a kid talking about swamps in North Carolina and up in PA putting out bears up to 700 pounds......Any of you ever hear anything about those claims?
Just did a short search on Google......All I can say is I want to hunt Black Bears on the east coast!!! Holy CRAP!!!!!! LoL
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Re: 800lb Black Bear LOL
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There is some monsters that grow down there. I have seen some of the videos of the carolina bears and they are some monsters. There can be big any place. Every animal out there has some with super genitics and they grown to monster size. Either in horns or in this case body weight. Skull is the only thing that matters if people want to judge the size of the trophy. Weight is so blown up now days the skull size is the only real thing to go by.
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