Author Topic: biggest bear you've taken (Read 10728 times)

wabearhunter · « **on:** August 21, 2010, 07:24:53 AM »

what's the biggest bear you've taken? (live weight)

rasbo · « **Reply #1 on:** August 21, 2010, 07:31:41 AM »

never was able to weight them alive,350 no guts for mine..

h20hunter · « **Reply #2 on:** August 21, 2010, 08:17:05 AM »

Well, this one gal I knew.......

No really, still looking for my first. How about a pic if you got it to go along with your bear. Good post.

buckhorn2 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 21, 2010, 08:22:52 AM »

Our biggest weighed 434 on the cannery scales.

casey58 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 21, 2010, 01:00:49 PM »

mine was 310 cleaned out 6 hours after I shot it. will not shoot one in that hole again

woodman · « **Reply #5 on:** August 21, 2010, 01:24:16 PM »

Mine was #360 field dressed at the meat locker.

The second pic I don't have a weight on.

7mm short mag · « **Reply #6 on:** August 21, 2010, 02:52:30 PM »

this one is 480 dressed.

Lightning_Rider · « **Reply #7 on:** August 21, 2010, 03:04:10 PM »

Holy crap that thing is hog!!!

GoldTip · « **Reply #8 on:** August 21, 2010, 03:48:06 PM »

Never weighed a bear I've killed. We just measured them in MT, killed a couple here as well. Biggest I've killed was 6'9" nose to tail.

huntnnw · « **Reply #9 on:** August 22, 2010, 02:48:07 PM »

Where I hunt bears don't come out whole

boneaddict · « **Reply #10 on:** August 22, 2010, 02:51:54 PM »

I have that problem too...the bigger they are, the farther from the road they are. Interesting correlation huh?

casey58 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 22, 2010, 03:03:18 PM »

ya mine I had to weigh in 3 pieces so hard to say how accurate that was

huntnnw · « **Reply #12 on:** August 22, 2010, 07:18:43 PM »

No kidding, bears are the most awkward animals to move. What really gets me is an outfitter that has all pics of whole bears at the lodge. Sorry but we have killed a ton of bears up here, u just. Don't move a 250lb bear out whole. Fishy fishy stuff

Houndhunter · « **Reply #13 on:** August 22, 2010, 07:26:51 PM »

the head and the meat is usually all that comes back with me, but my best is 5'8'' nose to tail which aint much

BLUEBULLS · « **Reply #14 on:** August 23, 2010, 07:40:27 AM »

Not sure the weight but he was pretty much right at 7ft.
He sure did have a ton of fat for a spring bear, probably 5 inches thick in spots.

what do you guys think a weight could be?

wabearhunter · « **Reply #15 on:** August 23, 2010, 07:47:11 AM »

maybe around 375-400 lbs?

demontang · « **Reply #16 on:** August 23, 2010, 12:59:21 PM »

Only shot one bear but it was guess at 300-320 live by the meat cutter. it was 200 with no head/hind ect, the head was heavy as heck and the paws where 5.5inchs across and the skull would just make the books but it cracked

high country · « **Reply #17 on:** August 23, 2010, 03:34:16 PM »

I am 265lbs in the pics, 6' even. this was a spring bear so he was low on fat...but plenty heavy.
pictured is a pair of 8x42 leica's and a bag you would get oranges in filled with morels. I never got an actual weight because I never really cared, but now I am curious.

snocobearhunter · « **Reply #18 on:** August 23, 2010, 04:26:59 PM »

didn't get a wieght on hime had to bone him out in the field but he's 7 ft. from nose to tail and 7 ft. from paw to paw

seth30 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 23, 2010, 04:30:49 PM »

Snocohunter, your bear pics never cease to amaze me.

snocobearhunter · « **Reply #20 on:** August 23, 2010, 04:45:28 PM »

well glad you enjoy em if i didn't miss one yesterday there would be another photo goin up

lokidog · « **Reply #21 on:** August 23, 2010, 04:58:53 PM »

For those who can't/won't pack one out whole, I think there are some good girth to weight tables to figure it out.

My best was 7'2" spring bear with about an 18" skull. Estimated weight was 450 based on length/girth chart (in 1984), and we did haul it out whole.... It took 6 of us to drag it on flat ground on a tarp about 150 yards and then used a come-along and ramp to get him in the truck. The rug got stolen last fall

Ray · « **Reply #22 on:** August 23, 2010, 05:27:32 PM »

Those are some real nice brutes.

I'm in the dept. with boneaddict. They don't come out whole where I normally hunt. Even if they did, I wouldn't bother weighing them.

This is the largest bear I've got. It was over 18 inches on the skull.
Not nearly as big as some brutes on this topic...

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yelp · « **Reply #23 on:** August 23, 2010, 05:56:57 PM »

In 1998 I shot my biggest black bear in Washington State..it weighed 429 lbs..6'9" from nose to tail. Shot near Loomis, WA. Skull was over 19.5" I have a bad pic of the rug at the taxi. That is my hunting partner in the pic.

Black Bare · « **Reply #24 on:** August 24, 2010, 11:52:11 AM »

20 9/16th Skull. Arizona black bear.

let.it.fly · « **Reply #25 on:** August 24, 2010, 12:07:01 PM »

240 with no head cape or guts. i duno what that would wieght out on the foot. maybe 300.

tony04 · « **Reply #26 on:** August 27, 2010, 07:42:53 PM »

high country, your last pic sure made me laugh. very nice bear!

bowhunterforever · « **Reply #27 on:** August 27, 2010, 11:51:44 PM »

I don't go out very often to just target bears, (i just shoot them when i see them and season is open) but mine is 150- 225 no guts. Some of you guys have shot some bruiser bears

Kent Hunter · « **Reply #28 on:** August 28, 2010, 07:07:52 AM »

Don't have any live weights, but I shot two bears up in B.C. about 7 or 8 years ago that both squared at just over 7 foot. One was 7 1/4 in and the other was 7 1/2 in. We went up on a guided hunt for the first time to B.C. and there was 8 people in camp. You are allowed 2 bear each. Everyone had 2 bear tags except for 1 person. So, we had 15 bear tags. We killed 15 bears in 4 days!! It had to be one of the most fun hunts that I have ever been on. Spring bear hunting in B.C. is nothing short of fantastic!!

Axle · « **Reply #29 on:** August 28, 2010, 07:32:19 AM »

My biggest one got away

Maybe next time I should pull the trigger instead of looking at it for so long.

The other one was small and easy to pack. My wife thought it was the best wild game I ever brought home. While I didn't fully agree, it was darn good eats!

PolarBear · « **Reply #30 on:** August 28, 2010, 07:58:28 AM »

Somewhere around 400-430. I arrowed it above Yahoo Lake at Clearwater during early archery elk and by the time I got it packed out the damn thing was spoiled hide and all. I was sick! That was the last time that I ever hunted bear in warm weather.

DaveBTS · « **Reply #31 on:** August 28, 2010, 08:13:31 AM »

I got my biggest bear last year down in the Gorge, 7'-3", 450 lbs.

epq21 · « **Reply #32 on:** August 28, 2010, 10:21:38 AM »

Not worth weighing after all the sows milk drained away and splattered...

On a serious note I learned last year not to guess weights as people seem to take it personal and I didn't have a scale handy to weigh them prior to processing, so the only two bears I have gotten were classified as, "good Bear" and "Great Bear" both of which were yummy in the tummy.

saylean · « **Reply #33 on:** August 28, 2010, 10:45:53 AM »

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,26520.0.html

6ft 2 nose to tail.

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