Official Pope and Young score 19 15/16 this year. (Updated with skull pics)

[jessie88]

And also how big of a skull did he have?

[DOUBLELUNG]

Would love to see a picture of the clean skull

[jessie88]

He's not cleaned yet just beetled and this is the only pic I have at the moment.

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

 

[tgomez]

what a toad. I can't wait for the sportsman's show so I can have mine scored

You dont have to wait till the show. Get on boone and crocketts website, there are several scorers in Washington. The website and find an offical measurer near you. Simple as that!

[pianoman9701]

Damn, what a great bear. Jealous!

[TrailTreker85]

what a toad. I can't wait for the sportsman's show so I can have mine scored

You dont have to wait till the show. Get on boone and crocketts website, there are several scorers in Washington. The website and find an offical measurer near you. Simple as that!
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I did all that and more to find someone close to me as I am in Vancouver. All have some distance to get to and time like that is hard to get with having a new born and an open deer tag . 

[carpsniperg2]

That is a pig! Take it up to the Sportsmens Show and enter it in the contest. I took mine up and ended up getting a rifle for 2nd in show.

Wow really!? What kind of rifle? I will definetly enter it. How do I go about doing that? Just bring it by when the sportsmen show starts I'm assuming and the comp is at a certain time?

I think its the first 4 days of the shows like in Portland. Then the winners are announced the last day of the show. Last couple of years some have been ruger americans. Most of the time first 3 places get guns. Then there are a lot of other prizes for the other spots. Its just a fee to enter them into the books and the contest.

What they do is compare each animal to the current state records and that gives them a number. So your black bear will go against elk and mule deer and etc.

[jessie88]

Just got my skull back. Looks great! The smaller one is my 17 1/2 inch female bear I arrowed 3 years ago.

[tgomez]

Jessie that skull is huge! It looks very nice and pearly white. Definetly something to charish and be proud of. Congradulations!

[robertsjd]

awesome bear man congrats

[jessie88]

so i got my tooth age report for this bear.. 8 years old. young for a bear that big??  the taxidermist guessed he wasnt any older than 7 or 8 because his teeth were so nice. but he said that is decently young for a 450lb 20 inch skull bear...

[pianoman9701]

Beautiful bear. Congratulations.

[tgomez]

so i got my tooth age report for this bear.. 8 years old. young for a bear that big??  the taxidermist guessed he wasnt any older than 7 or 8 because his teeth were so nice. but he said that is decently young for a 450lb 20 inch skull bear...

Jessie, black bear are fully mature around 6.5 years old. Your bear is a fully mature boar, I'm sure if you didn't harvest him he would have been real close to 480-500 lbs by the time he hit the den for winter. Don't know for sure if skull would grow too much more than that, but may have gotten bigger weight wise in years to come. That is a great bear, congradulations once again Jessie.

[Eli346]

It's amazing when you put 2 skulls side by side and see the difference that only a couple of inches makes! I put my bear next to my buddy's bear and only 1 1/2" makes a big difference. His weighed about 100 lbs more than mine but he got his in Nov. and I got mine in Aug. Great bear Jesse. I knew you had a winner!