Author Topic: Dirt nap for a Big East Side Bear (Read 12207 times)

RubblesPH · « **on:** September 30, 2008, 09:25:14 PM »

Here's a couple of pics of a bear that we took last weekend. The guy laying down is 6'4", weighs approx 330lbs and wears size 15 boots....to put it into perspective.

The bear green scores 19 12/16" green.

Rubbles

jackelope · « **Reply #1 on:** September 30, 2008, 09:27:36 PM »

damn thats a great bear. congrats to the hunter.

saylean · « **Reply #2 on:** September 30, 2008, 09:31:00 PM »

Studly for sure. Nice head, great color. Very cool. Thanks for the pics...grats to the boys.

Jackjr · « **Reply #3 on:** September 30, 2008, 09:31:30 PM »

Curly · « **Reply #4 on:** September 30, 2008, 09:33:58 PM »

That's a big melon on that bear. I like the last pic with his arm up in the air.

BC CHASER · « **Reply #5 on:** September 30, 2008, 09:39:18 PM »

Awesome bear man!

MuleySniper · « **Reply #6 on:** September 30, 2008, 09:46:25 PM »

What a bruiser!!! That's the first time Ive ever seen someone spoon a bear too

MS

General Disarray · « **Reply #7 on:** September 30, 2008, 09:49:48 PM »

good to see Mike get out and enjoy himself a little bit! He puts so much time into his store and into the community, he deserved that animal!

50CalJim · « **Reply #8 on:** September 30, 2008, 10:20:19 PM »

Congrats on a great Bear, Really like the color. Did you guys weight it? Better enter it in the Hunt-Wa Head competition it could be a winner.

Machias · « **Reply #9 on:** September 30, 2008, 10:39:38 PM »

What a toad!! Congrats!!

billythekidrock · « **Reply #10 on:** October 01, 2008, 06:04:41 AM »

NICE!
What a pig.

DeKuma · « **Reply #11 on:** October 01, 2008, 06:06:53 AM »

That's what I am talking about!! Great bear.
What area was he in? I cannot wait to get over to our property and tag one!

NW-Eric · « **Reply #12 on:** October 01, 2008, 07:11:37 AM »

thats a sweet bear nice job baggin that one

WDFW-SUX · « **Reply #13 on:** October 01, 2008, 07:17:49 AM »

Wow Nellly.............

bucklucky · « **Reply #14 on:** October 01, 2008, 08:27:25 AM »

Dang nice bear!

klikboom · « **Reply #15 on:** October 01, 2008, 10:02:50 AM »

thats a beaut! and GINORMOUS.

rasbo · « **Reply #16 on:** October 01, 2008, 10:06:40 AM »

saaaweeet!

saylean · « **Reply #17 on:** October 01, 2008, 11:33:21 AM »

how did ya pack that out whole?

NoBark · « **Reply #18 on:** October 01, 2008, 11:36:22 AM »

Run into any trouble skinning out that guy next to the bear?

X-Force · « **Reply #19 on:** October 01, 2008, 11:38:58 AM »

Thats a big boy.

Houndhunter · « **Reply #20 on:** October 01, 2008, 01:38:56 PM »

nice bear im amazed you got him out whole, not even gutted

jkononen · « **Reply #21 on:** October 01, 2008, 02:00:44 PM »

bear $%#&!$ do you need assistance?

It looks like they used a quad to get it out whole

Wea300mag · « **Reply #22 on:** October 01, 2008, 05:48:29 PM »

That bear is freakin huge!!! Congrats.

robb92 · « **Reply #23 on:** October 01, 2008, 05:52:18 PM »

Vary nice bear!!! Thanks for posting the pics!!!

Hunting Cowboy · « **Reply #24 on:** October 01, 2008, 06:12:28 PM »

One to be proud of! What a beaut.

Ray · « **Reply #25 on:** October 01, 2008, 06:39:11 PM »

I saw this earlier but got distracted. Fantastic bear!! Wohoo!

RubblesPH · « **Reply #26 on:** October 01, 2008, 09:08:48 PM »

Thanks for all the comments! He is a really great bear and Mike's biggest yet.

For you guys that want to know how and why we took him out whole.......We rolled him down the mountain about 200 yards and stopped him on a step embankment located on a skidder trail. We took some pics and I backed up my 4-wheeler (Honda Foreman 450) and decided that it wasn't going to be big enough so we decided to use the back rack on the Arctic Cat. Since there was a gap between the hillside and the rack, I placed logs from the hill onto the rack and we rolled him onto the 4 wheeler. We secured him with tie downs, rope and bungee cords and then we got him off the mountain back to base camp.

From there we rolled him off the 4-wheeler onto the tarp, took some pics, and then full body skinned him for a standing mount. We took the nice clean quarters, backstrap, cape, etc. and put them directly on ice, loaded the carcass back onto the 4-wheeler and drove it back into the timber where we cut out the liver and checked the stomach contents. Nice clean job with direct access to ice and cold refreshments

yelp · « **Reply #27 on:** October 01, 2008, 09:19:13 PM »

which one was the bear...

Just kidding great bear..look at that pus gut.. great coat too. Congrats.

X-Force · « **Reply #28 on:** October 01, 2008, 09:31:01 PM »

It sounds like a hunting show on TV, in being a hundred or so yards from a road when the animal is taken and loading the animal whole onto a quad, truck ect. Then bringing the animal back to the shop to gut, skin and butcher

I'm just giving you a hard time. He's a beast. Let us know what the final score is.

norsepeak · « **Reply #29 on:** October 01, 2008, 09:59:57 PM »

I like doing it that way...that's how I got mine this year...about two hundred yards from the trail where my wheeler was parked. It's very nice skinning in a clean shop with a cold frosty in hand!

saylean · « **Reply #30 on:** October 02, 2008, 10:54:32 AM »

He looks like a butter ball...I bet he rolled down that hill nicely..

Grats again man. Very cool bear.

RubblesPH · « **Reply #31 on:** October 02, 2008, 11:16:35 AM »

He rolled pretty good and cleared a considerable path down the hill side, but he did get hung up in the brush a couple of times and then got lodged under a blow down....spent some energy getting him dislodged!

Wish I had a pic of the bear tied on the rack of the 4-wheeler. Between the bear and the large individual driving the machine, it looked like the rear wheels were gonna come off

Broken Arrow · « **Reply #32 on:** October 02, 2008, 11:44:46 AM »

Nice job Drue!

RubblesPH · « **Reply #33 on:** October 04, 2008, 07:19:07 PM »

Thanks Troy.....Mike made a great shot on a great bear.

You didn't even have to help pack this one out! Hopefully I'll need you again this Spring though.

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