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Re: Bear Weight--Need Your Help
« Reply #60 on: May 16, 2017, 09:29:47 PM »
Great thread. I've shot bear and always cut up to getem out. I've got a scale and hoist which I hope to have onsite of the next kill. It's just hard to have in the back country.  But really the only truthful  way to get a proper weight.
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Re: Bear Weight--Need Your Help
« Reply #61 on: May 16, 2017, 09:33:52 PM »
Timberstalker it was 2002 . Why do you
Say 1980 ?

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Re: Bear Weight--Need Your Help
« Reply #62 on: May 16, 2017, 09:38:03 PM »
Timberstalker it was 2002 . Why do you
Say 1980 ?

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Re: Bear Weight--Need Your Help
« Reply #63 on: May 16, 2017, 10:18:14 PM »
This thread came to light in lieu of various weight discussions after having a knife in less bears than some but more than many, across a wide range of sizes. All having come out in pieces. I'd just like to see everyone come together and grow our collective knowledge.


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Re: Bear Weight--Need Your Help
« Reply #64 on: May 16, 2017, 10:40:36 PM »
"Hey, how big was your bear/deer/fish/turkey/sage rat?"

"Big enough."

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Re: Bear Weight--Need Your Help
« Reply #65 on: May 17, 2017, 04:46:48 AM »
This thread came to light in lieu of various weight discussions after having a knife in less bears than some but more than many, across a wide range of sizes. All having come out in pieces. I'd just like to see everyone come together and grow our collective knowledge.


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Re: Bear Weight--Need Your Help
« Reply #66 on: May 17, 2017, 06:27:17 AM »
Based on an educated guess relying on distress data sent from my shoulders and lower back, the Bear I packed out came in somewhere between 600 and 700 lbs, respectively.
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Re: Bear Weight--Need Your Help
« Reply #67 on: May 17, 2017, 06:28:49 AM »
I dont have to worry about the weight of bear, being as I have never killed one.   :chuckle:
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Re: Bear Weight--Need Your Help
« Reply #68 on: May 17, 2017, 06:31:57 AM »
Based on an educated guess relying on distress data sent from my shoulders and lower back, the Bear I packed out came in somewhere between 600 and 700 lbs, respectively.

It's funny when guys that can clean 300# grab a sack of jello bear and suddenly need two buddies to help move it.

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Re: Bear Weight--Need Your Help
« Reply #69 on: May 17, 2017, 06:32:45 AM »
My last bear measured 72" long with 47" girth. The taxidermist said it probably weighed about 300-325 live weight. I had 110 pounds of cut and wrapped meat.

Your chart would be close but multiplying the bone in quarters by 3.25 looks like a bunch of crap.

Got a picture?

Also was that 110 pounds brought in or after mixing with pork?


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Here's a picture of the mount that I took this morning. It's also the bear in my profile picture.

The 110 pounds was cut and ground without any additives just bear meat by me not a butcher. Also was a bear killed in September, guys who are weighing spring bears would obviously see less meat and more bone.
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Re: Bear Weight--Need Your Help
« Reply #70 on: May 17, 2017, 07:37:09 AM »
How many of these bears were grizzly bears?
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Re: Bear Weight--Need Your Help
« Reply #71 on: May 17, 2017, 07:47:09 AM »
How many of these bears were grizzly bears?


These were.


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Re: Bear Weight--Need Your Help
« Reply #72 on: May 17, 2017, 07:49:11 AM »
And so was this....this thing dug that far in a couple of minutes tops.


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Re: Bear Weight--Need Your Help
« Reply #73 on: May 17, 2017, 08:15:58 AM »
How many of these bears were grizzly bears?

I've been doing math all morning with this formula.  My 2014 bear, pictured here comes out at 402#. :tup:
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Re: Bear Weight--Need Your Help
« Reply #74 on: May 17, 2017, 08:16:57 AM »
I'm not sure you know the difference between a black bear and a grizzly bear, Timberstalker.

Clearly High Country can. Thank God someone can.

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