Bear tooth data available

[Gutpile]

I was always told by others that there is no feedback on tooth samples you send in but when I stopped by fish and wildlife so they could remove the teeth from my Palouse late season buck they informed me that that is incorrect. Maybe you already knew this but I figured I'd share just in case

I'm not sure if any of you care but you can check you bear and deer ages if you've ever sent in a successful tooth sample. If there are no results its because the tooth was insufficient for results.

I was sort of curious what the average ages for you seasoned bear hunters were.

I don't have results of the bears I've shot unfortunately. I'm still waiting on this years bear.

http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/tooth_age/search.php

[50CalJim]

I just happened to look about a month ago & they already had the estimated age of my spring Bear up. 4 yrs old.

[billythekidrock]

I was always told by others that there is no feedback on tooth samples you send in but when I stopped by fish and wildlife so they could remove the teeth from my Palouse late season buck they informed me that that is incorrect. Maybe you already knew this but I figured I'd share just in case

I'm not sure if any of you care but you can check you bear and deer ages if you've ever sent in a successful tooth sample. If there are no results its because the tooth was insufficient for results.

I was sort of curious what the average ages for you seasoned bear hunters were.

I don't have results of the bears I've shot unfortunately. I'm still waiting on this years bear.

http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/tooth_age/search.php

Somewhere I still have most of the cards they used to send out, (they went electronic many years ago) and I think the average was about 5.5 years over 16 bears. Mostly due to one at 23.5 and one at 14.5

[Gutpile]

What were the size of those bears? That's incredible. 23.5? That's an old warrior right there.

[go4steelhd]

I'm  Not sure how accurate they are for bear. One of the ones I sent in said it was a 5 year old female. But it was a male bear that I shot.

[billythekidrock]

I'm  Not sure how accurate they are for bear. One of the ones I sent in said it was a 5 year old female. But it was a male bear that I shot.

They do have an additional alph-numeric category that gives a plus or minus in years but I the sex of the bear is determined by the person submitting the tooth, unless the analyst made a mistake.

Years later I was talking about my 23.5 year old bear to a bio and he said that he remembered it and that it could have plus or minus of 5 years.

[Boss .300 winmag]

My average is 9.16 years old from three bears.

1.5 sow
10.5 boar
15.5 boar

[billythekidrock]

What were the size of those bears? That's incredible. 23.5? That's an old warrior right there.

About 250 live weight. I did not square or measure it but the skull is about 19 inches or so. It was a short stocky bear that appeared to be in great health except for it's teeth.



I would have to look but I think my largest bear was 11 year old spring bear. It weighed 385 gutted and scored 20 even.

[bear hunter]

I looked up my spring bear for this year and she was 20 years old.