Irag War Vet sets New State Record for Black Bear ....Maine !

[BOWHUNTER45]

For those who never seen a true 500 to 600 + pound Black Bear Here he is .........Holy Sheet Batman !

[silverdalesauer]

Go Maine!

That's my home state. Make me proud to be from New England. 

[Maligator]

Very cool!  Good looking rug laying there 

[ouchfoss]

wow! That might be scary to see in the woods.  Freaking huge.

[jackelope]

Some giant bears back in the northeast.

[Huntbear]

Damn Big Bear! 

[silverdalesauer]

Here's the full story:

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/field-notes/2012/09/hunter-tags-699lb-record-bruin-maine

Almost seven hundred pounds of bruin is a lot of bear, and a new record for the state Maine.

From this story in the Bangor Daily News:
Guide Jim Webber knows he’s got a bunch of big black bears visiting his bait sites. In fact, he figures that of the 22 sites he’s maintaining this bear season, about 15 of them are being visited by bruins that weigh from 300 to 400 pounds. Two other sites, Webber said, are frequented by even bigger bears. How big? “Almost as big as that one,” he said, referring to bear that one of his hunters, Pennsylvanian Matt Knox, took on Friday. Or, as they’ll begin calling it as soon as the paperwork is completed, almost as big as Matt Knox’s state-record black bear.

According to the story, Knox, who had never before been bear hunting, shot the massive bear over a bait pile on Friday. The bear's 699lb. weight surpasses the old state record by almost twenty pounds.

Stay tuned for more details and photos of this amazing trophy!


I grew up in Northern Maine where Moose, White Tail, & Black Bear hunting is awesome. I spoke with my father the other night (all my family still lives there) and he said that there have been multiple stories of hunters that have shot some really big bears this year. Most of them were between 400 - 600lbs.

[oldleclercrd]

That thing is huge.

[BOWHUNTER45]

That's why I said 5 to 6 hundred pounds ...I did not want to over exaggerate   

[saylean]

That thing is a beefcake.

[grizzlyadams]

Its a monster indeed

[silverdalesauer]

Crazy thing is that just the day before a different hunter in Maine shot a 680lb boar!

[Ripper]

Wow! Gotta love those doughnut fed bears!  They sure do grow big in the north east.

[pianoman9701]

I've done a lot of hunting around Moosehead Lake and seen some dandy bears. What a pig that one is. I have to say the one thing I miss about moving out here are the incredible big whitetail bucks back there and the size of the black bears.

[NRA4LIFE]

They get huge in WI where I'm from also.  In WI you have to bring them out whole to register them.  I helped my cousin haul out a 440 lb monster out of an alder swamp.  That was NOT easy.

[pianoman9701]

They get huge in WI where I'm from also.  In WI you have to bring them out whole to register them.  I helped my cousin haul out a 440 lb monster out of an alder swamp.  That was NOT easy.

Same in New England

[silverdalesauer]

They get huge in WI where I'm from also.  In WI you have to bring them out whole to register them.  I helped my cousin haul out a 440 lb monster out of an alder swamp.  That was NOT easy.

Same in New England

Yeah, and that goes for Moose too!

My nephew shot a moose last year in an alder swamp and had to drag it out with rope and pulleys.  They loaded into the truck with a winch. Crazy that you can't just quarter them and pack 'em out.

[CAMPMEAT]

They get huge in WI where I'm from also.  In WI you have to bring them out whole to register them.  I helped my cousin haul out a 440 lb monster out of an alder swamp.  That was NOT easy.

Same in New England

Yeah, and that goes for Moose too!

My nephew shot a moose last year in an alder swamp and had to drag it out with rope and pulleys.  They loaded into the truck with a winch. Crazy that you can't just quarter them and pack 'em out.

Suprised he didn't get a ticket for not marking an " OVERSIZED LOAD " on a vehicle....

[pianoman9701]

They get huge in WI where I'm from also.  In WI you have to bring them out whole to register them.  I helped my cousin haul out a 440 lb monster out of an alder swamp.  That was NOT easy.

Same in New England

Yeah, and that goes for Moose too!

My nephew shot a moose last year in an alder swamp and had to drag it out with rope and pulleys.  They loaded into the truck with a winch. Crazy that you can't just quarter them and pack 'em out.

You are allowed to eviscerate a moose in both ME and NH to bring it out of the woods.

[Austrian Hunter]

Question:  Are our Black Bears on the North West specifically our coastal bears bigger in average and record than the North East??