biggest bear you've taken

[wabearhunter]

maybe around 375-400 lbs?

[demontang]

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]

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]

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]

Snocohunter, your bear pics never cease to amaze me. 

[snocobearhunter]

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

[lokidog]

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]

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]

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]

20 9/16th Skull.  Arizona black bear.

[let.it.fly]

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

[tony04]

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

[bowhunterforever]

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]

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]

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!