Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on September 22, 2012, 11:19:16 AM
Post by: silverdalesauer on September 22, 2012, 11:21:59 AM
That's my home state. Make me proud to be from New England. :whoo: :whoo: :whoo:
Post by: Maligator on September 22, 2012, 11:30:51 AM
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Post by: silverdalesauer on September 22, 2012, 10:54:07 PM
http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/field-notes/2012/09/hunter-tags-699lb-record-bruin-maine (http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/field-notes/2012/09/hunter-tags-699lb-record-bruin-maine)
Almost seven hundred pounds of bruin is a lot of bear, and a new record for the state Maine.
From this story in the Bangor Daily News:
Guide Jim Webber knows he’s got a bunch of big black bears visiting his bait sites. In fact, he figures that of the 22 sites he’s maintaining this bear season, about 15 of them are being visited by bruins that weigh from 300 to 400 pounds. Two other sites, Webber said, are frequented by even bigger bears. How big? “Almost as big as that one,” he said, referring to bear that one of his hunters, Pennsylvanian Matt Knox, took on Friday. Or, as they’ll begin calling it as soon as the paperwork is completed, almost as big as Matt Knox’s state-record black bear.
According to the story, Knox, who had never before been bear hunting, shot the massive bear over a bait pile on Friday. The bear's 699lb. weight surpasses the old state record by almost twenty pounds.
Stay tuned for more details and photos of this amazing trophy!
I grew up in Northern Maine where Moose, White Tail, & Black Bear hunting is awesome. I spoke with my father the other night (all my family still lives there) and he said that there have been multiple stories of hunters that have shot some really big bears this year. Most of them were between 400 - 600lbs.
Post by: oldleclercrd on September 23, 2012, 08:29:00 AM
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on September 23, 2012, 08:38:15 AM
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Post by: grizzlyadams on September 23, 2012, 08:55:16 PM
Post by: silverdalesauer on September 23, 2012, 11:13:03 PM
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Post by: pianoman9701 on September 24, 2012, 12:02:23 PM
Post by: NRA4LIFE on September 24, 2012, 12:20:01 PM
Post by: pianoman9701 on September 24, 2012, 12:21:54 PM
They get huge in WI where I'm from also. In WI you have to bring them out whole to register them. I helped my cousin haul out a 440 lb monster out of an alder swamp. That was NOT easy.
Same in New England
Post by: silverdalesauer on September 24, 2012, 12:26:45 PM
They get huge in WI where I'm from also. In WI you have to bring them out whole to register them. I helped my cousin haul out a 440 lb monster out of an alder swamp. That was NOT easy.
Same in New England
Yeah, and that goes for Moose too!
My nephew shot a moose last year in an alder swamp and had to drag it out with rope and pulleys. They loaded into the truck with a winch. Crazy that you can't just quarter them and pack 'em out.
Post by: CAMPMEAT on September 24, 2012, 12:54:07 PM
They get huge in WI where I'm from also. In WI you have to bring them out whole to register them. I helped my cousin haul out a 440 lb monster out of an alder swamp. That was NOT easy.
Same in New England
Yeah, and that goes for Moose too!
My nephew shot a moose last year in an alder swamp and had to drag it out with rope and pulleys. They loaded into the truck with a winch. Crazy that you can't just quarter them and pack 'em out.
Suprised he didn't get a ticket for not marking an " OVERSIZED LOAD " on a vehicle.... :chuckle:
Post by: pianoman9701 on September 24, 2012, 01:08:07 PM
They get huge in WI where I'm from also. In WI you have to bring them out whole to register them. I helped my cousin haul out a 440 lb monster out of an alder swamp. That was NOT easy.
Same in New England
Yeah, and that goes for Moose too!
My nephew shot a moose last year in an alder swamp and had to drag it out with rope and pulleys. They loaded into the truck with a winch. Crazy that you can't just quarter them and pack 'em out.
You are allowed to eviscerate a moose in both ME and NH to bring it out of the woods.
Post by: Austrian Hunter on September 24, 2012, 01:11:56 PM