Biggest WA bear by weight and length

[True Sportsman]

Hey guys and girls. I'd like to see the biggest bears killed in WA. Weights if you know them, pics if you have them.

When I first started hunting, years ago, I had yet to kill a bear. I decided to go scouting up in NE WA in late May. I did not have a rifle or pistol with me and I decided to do some scouting. I hiked into a meadowy area that had a creek running meandering through the middle. I walked around looking for sheds. After a couple hours, I noticed about 250 yards ahead of me a large black bear, meandering through the same meadow I was in. He never saw me, and I got the hell out of there. I wasn't the best judge of size, but I had seen a few bears and that one looked like a large boar (better than average about 250lbs). Still scared the crap out of me...

I decided I had enough of hiking, and I though i"d drive around and scout some new areas. On the way to another area, I saw the biggest bear I have ever seen. It was a reddish black bear. I was driving down a gravel road and there was a small clearcut on the side of the road. I the middle was this huge bear. When the bear seen my truck, it ran to the edge of the clearing. I know the bear was big because its ass muscles rippled when he bounded through the clearcut. He looked like a giant bear in the zoo, thats been gaining weight all his life. As he got to the edge of the clearcut, he felt comfortable and he slowly moved through the trees for a bit. I watched him for a couple minutes total through binocs.

This was one of the most amazing things I have seen in WA. I've killed 3 bears the biggest about 200lbs and I guided my dad to his first bear that weighed 270lbs, so I know bear size a little.

The reddish bear I saw had to be in the 500lb range.

Lets see some pics and hear some stories of some monsters!

[brew]

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"

[BENCHLEG]

big bear thanks for sharing . j

[HighCountryHunter88]

I got spoiled on my first bear, thank god i could drive my truck within 50 yards of him, it took my buddy and i 30 min to drag him with ropes the 50 yards and could barly get him into my ranger. nose to tail 6'4 18 11/16 in skull. i literaly had to shave inches of fat off this guy. he had a broken ear, and where i shot him there wasnt a tree from miles and miles...

[JackOfAllTrades]

Well... I've only brought one home.  +6' square. 300+. Belly nearly draggin the ground. OK, he had short legs. But that ain't nothing compared to a few of the 7' bears I know that members here have harvested.  C'mon guys, post the 'well above average ones'!

-Steve

[ICEMAN]

All I have shot are scrawny bears. Waiting for more pics! 
 
Nice bear Drew! HighCountry, what area? I have yet to find a bear that far from the woods before...

[birdwacker]

Riding dirt bikes in the Sultan watershed maybe 15yrs ago came around a corner and big ben was sitting in the road 10ft in front of us his sides rippled as he got up and walked away from us. Some guy out here in Kitsap county shot a 800# with a slug gun a couple years ago.

[3nails]

 My two biggest. The black one was measured out at 400lbs. 20 7/8" skull. (1/8" off!) Didn't measure out the brown one but he was a beast too.

[D-Rock425]

Nice bears guys those are some giant black bears.

[HighCountryHunter88]

Iceman pm sent

[Guy]

Didn't somebody kill a monster of a bear over by the Hood Canal a year or two ago?

[jackelope]

Didn't somebody kill a monster of a bear over by the Hood Canal a year or two ago?

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,13076.90.html

[True Sportsman]

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"

That 3 legged bear was a warrior! I'd love to know the story on that...

[buckhorn2]

Boy shot one by raymond that weighted 432 on certified scales and stollers in raymond did a mount for him.

[high country]

I shot this springer a few years ago. I still have not beat it. he would have been a true fatty in the fall. I am 6' and 270# in the pic.