Biggest WA bear by weight and length

[Ripper]

great bears and stories guys. I can't wait for more. I hope to post a pic and storey of a nice bear this fall.

[saylean]

My biggest....

Monroe spring bear, 2009. 6'2" nose to tail.
18 1/4" skull. Gutted, it was 256 pounds (?), with its butt and back legs still on the floor...

Original link...
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,26520.msg303961.html#msg303961

[machine]

Posted this one before but here it goes again.Not sure of the specs,haven't gotten the skull or hide back yet.Not the biggest but I was more than happy with him.

[mulehunter]

Very cool stories. I can't wait to take my daugther out hound hunting bears in Idaho three years from now.  She will shoot a hog bear on ground.   

Look forward to her first bear at age 8. She start to shooting 22. With me. She is getting there by more practices.

Mulehunter. 

[3nails]

Kind of thought this thread would do better 

[RadSav]

Wife's first!  Did not get a length, but with hide on at the shop he weighted 385.  Should put it close to 450.  Back when I was guiding we had two in Oregon over 500 on the Newport, Oregon Bumblebee Tuna scales, but this is our best in Washington.

Scanner is on the fritz - sorry for the quality.  If I get it fixed I'll send a better one.

[Annette]

now that the girls have broke in...LOL I'll add my bigest of the 8 I've taken with my bow . It was a spring tag in Cowlitz co, back in 85 I think. I shot this bear at 12 yards and he ran about 40 and piled up. We weighed him in at 451 +. He had been fighting and had bite marks all over him! His dried skull measured 20 inches and was the bigest bear taken by an archer that year.

[Annette]

Rad, your wifes bear is huge!! That's awesume!
Lots of great bears on here! Hears to bear hunting

[bearpaw]

some nice looking bear ladies.... 

[RadSav]

Thanks Annette!  I have been trying to get her to shoot one with the bow.  She has taken quite a few deer and elk with the stick and string, but so far no luck on chasing the bear that way.  I'll be taking her to Canada next year for spring bear.  Maybe I'll tell her it is an archery only hunt.  If she is like me it only takes one to be hooked on up close and personal bear hunting.

[Pathfinder101]

Monster Bear Annette!

[klickitat]

I have only heard the story and did not see the bear. However about 14 years ago up on hill above Yard Birds in Chehalis a professional hunter was brought in by the state to clear out some bears. Supposedly he had gotten better than a half dozen in a weeks time with the biggest being 630 pounds.

I do not know the validity of the story, but I would think that there should be a way to check with the state.

[Annette]

Thanks Annette!  I have been trying to get her to shoot one with the bow.  She has taken quite a few deer and elk with the stick and string, but so far no luck on chasing the bear that way.  I'll be taking her to Canada next year for spring bear.  Maybe I'll tell her it is an archery only hunt.  If she is like me it only takes one to be hooked on up close and personal bear hunting.

[BOWHUNTER45]

don't know the weight as we didn't put him on a scale.  all I know was he was big enough that me and the wife couldn't drag him out of the hole I shot him in so we called my cousin who showed up with some cable and hooked it to the truck and drug him up to the road.  he only had 3 legs as his front right leg was missing at the knee and had been for some time as it was all calloused over.  not my biggest weight-wise as i shot one in colville in '93 that weighed more (guesstimate cuz it measured 6'4" nose to tail and this one was right at 6'2")  and as we were dragging him into the truck my wife was pushing the rear end when it released onto her everything it had eaten in the last couple days....wow what a mess !  she still talks about that experience and i can still remember the smell of it riding back to town with her in the back seat---yikes !  wish I had weighed them....all i know is that they were what i would consider "nice bears"

ya dat a nice one ...

[inchtowntracking]

We got this bear last year, it weighed in at 465 on a cattle scale. Here is a good example of a bear weighing alot but had a small head, I dont think he measured out to 17. He was a problem bear at the dump and was guzzling 5 gallon buckets of fryer grease when he could find them.  He had about six inches of fat on him, it took three of us moving him about an inch a time to roll him down the hill and in to the back of my truck. Oh yeah taken with dogs, treed up in maybe a 15 foot tree i thought the tree was going to break under his weight.