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Re: Spring bear here we go!
« Reply #15 on: March 06, 2014, 10:46:44 AM »
Last year's springer. Wasn't a monster, but I sure do enjoy putting arrows in em!
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Re: Spring bear here we go!
« Reply #16 on: March 06, 2014, 02:49:24 PM »
Way to go bear hunters!!
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Re: Spring bear here we go!
« Reply #17 on: March 06, 2014, 03:18:17 PM »
Some great colors on the hides ,hope to get drawn this year  :tup:
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Re: Spring bear here we go!
« Reply #18 on: March 06, 2014, 03:27:42 PM »
Nice bears guys and gals :tup:
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Re: Spring bear here we go!
« Reply #19 on: March 06, 2014, 04:02:56 PM »
Good luck to all. Not much of of chance for me this year. Here's last springs bear

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Re: Spring bear here we go!
« Reply #20 on: March 06, 2014, 05:00:31 PM »
Westside spring bear. Someday I will have to post the story.





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Re: Spring bear here we go!
« Reply #21 on: March 06, 2014, 05:10:03 PM »
Westside spring bear. Someday I will have to post the story.



Big black bear.  Looks like it was a good shoulder mount candidate.

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Re: Spring bear here we go!
« Reply #22 on: March 06, 2014, 05:52:36 PM »
My first ever WA spring draw.  Hopefully I won't have to wait so long to get the next permit.
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Re: Spring bear here we go!
« Reply #23 on: March 06, 2014, 06:01:12 PM »
Nice bear Rad, what did the skull aka pumpkin measure?

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Re: Spring bear here we go!
« Reply #24 on: March 06, 2014, 06:12:15 PM »
I have yet to measure it myself.  I was guessing around 18.  Michelle did the capping and I think she said it was shy of 18.  He's an odd bear.  Ears look like he should have a huge skull, left front shoulder had been shattered by a bullet years before, and he's older than dirt. But the skull was not anything near what I thought it would be when I pulled the trigger. 

In that picture you can see a fold in his hair over that left shoulder.  That's from the previous bullet wound.  Didn't stop him from running like a bat out of a hot place.  And might be the reason he stopped before going over the hill.  I think he ran out of poop and had to take a breather :chuckle:  Nice for me!!!  As the Accubond from the 325 Kimber dropped him in his tracks.

Not that I really care the skull size ;)  You can't tell in the pictures but he's salt and pepper (my first) with very nice hair.  Not the biggest I've killed by far, but one of the few I plan on mounting full body.
« Last Edit: March 06, 2014, 06:19:37 PM by RadSav »
He asked, Do you ever give a short simple answer?  I replied, "Nope."

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Re: Spring bear here we go!
« Reply #25 on: March 06, 2014, 06:14:59 PM »
Nice looking bears.  I hope I get drawn this year.

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Re: Spring bear here we go!
« Reply #26 on: March 06, 2014, 06:54:41 PM »
Westside spring bear. Someday I will have to post the story.



Big black bear.  Looks like it was a good shoulder mount candidate.

385 lbs gutted, 20 inch skull. I wish I had mounted that one.




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Re: Spring bear here we go!
« Reply #27 on: March 06, 2014, 07:00:12 PM »
 :yike:

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Re: Spring bear here we go!
« Reply #28 on: March 06, 2014, 07:20:50 PM »
 :tup:       

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Re: Spring bear here we go!
« Reply #29 on: March 06, 2014, 08:05:56 PM »
385 lbs gutted, 20 inch skull. I wish I had mounted that one.

And that was in spring...Oh my goodness!
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