Arctic Grizzly Bear from Nome.

[Grizzlykiller]

 Hey again.
 was looking at the Grizzly track thread and put a couple pics of the feet of this bear up. Thought why not show the rest of him.
 Killed Wednesday May 13 2009 on a solo hunt. 31 miles northeast of Nome. Left from the back door on the snowmachine at 5:15 am and told my wife I'd be back no later than 3:00 because I had to work at 4:00. Got home at 2:55 and made it to work on time and was basically worthless. Used to be it took a couple days to get sore but now it's almost immediately.
 Saw five bears and a wolverine. This being number 5.






The bear was a male that had been up in the fog and cliffs and made the fatal mistake of coming down out of the fog and laying down to take a nap in the sun. Another bear most likely a female during a previous breeding season had gotten hold of him and bit the end of his nose off. Most peculiar.
 Rifle was my .300 Weatherby Mark V. 200 grain Nosler partitions loaded by my brother. Two shots from about 80 yards, he never knew I was there till I started shooting.





Measurements are front foot, 7 1/2 inches across the pad. Back foot 13 1/2 inches long.
 Neck girth 29 inches without the hide. Hide without the skull 96" long nose to tail. 108" across from paw to paw. Square is 8' 5''. Weight I have no idea. It was a pain to move him around by myself trust me. A guess would be 500 at least. By the fall he'd put another 150-200 on. It was heavy I know that.
 Green skull measurement at sealing by ADF&G was 25 11/16.
 
 

[littlebuf]

i miss Alaska, they call um snow mobiles down here 

[BLKBEARKLR]

I am so with you, I miss Alaska also. I used to hunt all over around Kotz when i was there, grizz were every where

[OneHorn]

comgrates. thats a big ass bear. Hopefully i cankill one this year. i saw 9 black bears last year and was only able to get a shot off at one and hit a stump that poked above his back about and inch higher than his back

[bucklucky]

Congrats on the Grizz! Man I want to kill one something fierce. Id sure like to mount up a lifesize for my display! Those are some awesome critters!

[Aneoakleaf]

I'm with you charlie ! I want one at 20 yards
Congradulations on the great bear!
Thanks for sharing the pictures too. GOOD JOB!

[PacificNWhunter]

Great bears, thanks for posting them.

[bowhunterforever]

Congrats on the grizz!   That would be awsome shooting one.

[GoldTip]

Dandy bear, congrats!

[10Key]

Nice work! I have spent some time in Nome, I love it up there.

[zackmioli]

those sure are some huge animals! congrats! i wanna go to alaska so bad!

[skybusterbo]

Nice bear. Great job by yourself. That's a lot of work, but I'm sure it was worth it. AWESOME.

[saylean]

Now thats a bear...congrats on the hunt. What an animal! One day...one day...

[Huntbear]

Now thats a bear...congrats on the hunt. What an animal! One day...one day...

 

[TeacherMan]

What do you do with the bear? I noticed you just skinned him. I've been told they are not worth eating. Once you shot it did the bear run?