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lets see your spring bears!
« on: March 24, 2012, 06:38:25 PM »
I'm gettin pumped for my monroe hunt and want to see some success photos! Post em up!
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2012, 07:10:42 PM »
You mean to tell me there are no successful spring bear hunters out there? Come on now, lets see some pics! I know you guys like to show off!!   I'd post some IF I had some.
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2012, 08:33:12 PM »
Guess I'll go first....6'2" nose to tail, 18 1/4" skull. 2009

Link to original thread....
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?topic=26520.msg303961#msg303961

Lets see some of them other springers!

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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2012, 08:41:14 PM »
nice one saylean! i can only hope to get one that nice! :tup:
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2012, 08:46:05 PM »
nice one saylean! i can only hope to get one that nice! :tup:
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2012, 08:53:29 PM »
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2012, 09:00:11 PM »
Nice bear!    Good luck!
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2012, 09:04:56 PM »
they taste any good this early? Im assuming/hoping you eat them.

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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2012, 09:06:04 PM »
now were cookin!

nice one carp. :tup:
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2012, 09:11:11 PM »
they taste any good this early? I'm assuming/hoping you eat them.

Yeah you can't waste them you have to take the meat. I don't care for bear much, I will eat it because I killed it and it is a big game animal. He was a older boar and I figured he would eat like crap! I was dead wrong! he was the best eating bear I have ever ate. He was the first spring bear I have killed and ate. The meat had a really nice smell to it. The fall bears get that fat that makes them gamey tasting.
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2012, 09:15:15 PM »
I eat all my bears, summer sausage, pep sticks, bfast sausage...roasts..its on!

Oh and Carp....im taking that trophy this year!

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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2012, 09:19:19 PM »
seems you said that last year. :chuckle:
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2012, 09:20:38 PM »
seems you said that last year. :chuckle:

oooh....think your right......but i ment to say this year...meaning last year, meaning...wait... :chuckle: :dunno: :tup:

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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2012, 09:22:28 PM »
I will be trying my hardest to keep it for 2 years in a row. I hit the jackpot on skagit 2 years in a row. The chances are so slim! I will try my best to shoot another toad. I will also be looking for a nice colored bear. I will shoot a smaller colored bear. If not I will try to shoot a big black again. There is a ton of spring bear tag holders on the site this year!

I look forward to seeing all the bears hitting the dirt...
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2012, 10:15:10 PM »
The only bear i shot was a 130# cinnamon. She was on a creek eating humpies. That thing stunk so bad it took forever to gut out due to the vomit factor :yike:. I could'nt escape the smell for days.
 I had it cut & wrapped at the butcher. That thing was terrible eating no matter how or what i cooked it with.
 Three years ago my friend shot a nice bear up higher that had been eating mostly black berries. He gave me a steak so I could see if there was any difference. I could'nt believe how much better it was.
 So I have been putting in for spring bear the last three years, but havn't had any luck.
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #15 on: March 26, 2012, 10:35:25 PM »
Yeah a lot of it depends on the bears diet and the area. Some of those early bears can get into that skunk cabbage! YUCK!

That would be even hard to eat is summer sausage or pep!
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #16 on: March 27, 2012, 12:32:09 AM »
The last spring bear hunt for me was 2009.  It was successful in that I saw plenty of bear.  Just none I felt like shooting.  The first bear was one we named "Britches".  Thought I was going to need to shoot him as he charged within yards of us five times.  Probably the reason I could never hold the camera still  :bash:.  Later realised we were between him and his lunch - the two cubs.  The second bear is another Cinnamon boar within about 20 yards.  Again too excited to use manual focus and hold the camera still.

Spring bear are sure exciting!  Even if all you do is shoot with the camera it's a great and successful day in May.
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #17 on: March 27, 2012, 01:44:28 PM »
Good start, now keep them coming. I plan on taking the trophy this year, sorry guys!
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #18 on: March 27, 2012, 01:51:22 PM »
Nice bear saylean! I hope to get one like that soon.  I cant believe how much you look like Ron Howard you must get that all the time

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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #19 on: March 27, 2012, 02:30:47 PM »
Nice bear saylean! I hope to get one like that soon.  I cant believe how much you look like Ron Howard you must get that all the time

buahahahah! I wear hats all the time...black ones usually...I opened a magazine once during break at a refinery...bout jumped out of my skin...looked like a mirror...I held it up and people thought it was great. Opie stuck with me.

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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #20 on: March 27, 2012, 03:49:56 PM »
Well its been a few since I drew a spring tag.....but this is the last one. He's a 50# baby. I am a 250# 6' dude.


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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #21 on: March 27, 2012, 03:55:12 PM »
Oh.....now this is a bear!!

That is a big fella.

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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #22 on: March 27, 2012, 04:24:42 PM »
I just went from six to midnight looking at that bear  :chuckle:
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #23 on: March 27, 2012, 05:58:31 PM »
I remember that bear. Still a dandy! :tup:

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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #24 on: March 27, 2012, 07:26:07 PM »
That is a dandy! I can't wait to get out there.
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #25 on: March 28, 2012, 08:09:48 AM »
2009 dayton 6' nose to tail 20 1/16" skull
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #26 on: March 28, 2012, 10:55:23 AM »
Gorgeous! :tup:

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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #27 on: March 28, 2012, 02:11:44 PM »
Nice, do you have any more pics of him? I'd like to see more.
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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #28 on: April 01, 2012, 09:40:51 AM »
Nice, do you have any more pics of him? I'd like to see more.

me too. that is a good lookin bruin.

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Re: lets see your spring bears!
« Reply #29 on: April 01, 2012, 02:02:35 PM »
Yeah a lot of it depends on the bears diet and the area. Some of those early bears can get into that skunk cabbage! YUCK!

That would be even hard to eat is summer sausage or pep!


Thats very true...in most parts of AK you can kill 2 black bears a year on a general hunting license. If you shoot them before a certain date in June i think, you have to take the meat. If you shoot them after that date you do not have to. Pretty much all of the bears up there consume dead/rotting salmon as a big part of their diet and they are gross as hell. No one I know eats them, they might take the backstrps and thats all. I've smelled bear meat shot by a buddy of mine up there in Sept and holy crap it smelled so bad and he took really good care of it. Dark bleack meat and smelled like burnt fur that was soaked in elk urine when it was cooking.
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