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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 »
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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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