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Post by: jessie88 on December 01, 2015, 03:13:10 PM
That is a pig! Take it up to the Sportsmens Show and enter it in the contest. I took mine up and ended up getting a rifle for 2nd in show.
Wow really!? What kind of rifle? I will definetly enter it. How do I go about doing that? Just bring it by when the sportsmen show starts I'm assuming and the comp is at a certain time?
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Post by: tgomez on December 07, 2015, 09:06:03 AM
:tup: what a toad. I can't wait for the sportsman's show so I can have mine scored
You dont have to wait till the show. Get on boone and crocketts website, there are several scorers in Washington. The website and find an offical measurer near you. Simple as that! :tup:
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Post by: TrailTreker85 on December 07, 2015, 02:10:02 PM
:tup: what a toad. I can't wait for the sportsman's show so I can have mine scored
You dont have to wait till the show. Get on boone and crocketts website, there are several scorers in Washington. The website and find an offical measurer near you. Simple as that! :tup:
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I did all that and more to find someone close to me as I am in Vancouver. All have some distance to get to and time like that is hard to get with having a new born and an open deer tag :bash:.
Post by: carpsniperg2 on December 07, 2015, 02:19:19 PM
That is a pig! Take it up to the Sportsmens Show and enter it in the contest. I took mine up and ended up getting a rifle for 2nd in show.
Wow really!? What kind of rifle? I will definetly enter it. How do I go about doing that? Just bring it by when the sportsmen show starts I'm assuming and the comp is at a certain time?
I think its the first 4 days of the shows like in Portland. Then the winners are announced the last day of the show. Last couple of years some have been ruger americans. Most of the time first 3 places get guns. Then there are a lot of other prizes for the other spots. Its just a fee to enter them into the books and the contest.
What they do is compare each animal to the current state records and that gives them a number. So your black bear will go against elk and mule deer and etc.
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Post by: tgomez on May 04, 2016, 03:52:50 AM
so i got my tooth age report for this bear.. 8 years old. young for a bear that big?? the taxidermist guessed he wasnt any older than 7 or 8 because his teeth were so nice. but he said that is decently young for a 450lb 20 inch skull bear...
Jessie, black bear are fully mature around 6.5 years old. Your bear is a fully mature boar, I'm sure if you didn't harvest him he would have been real close to 480-500 lbs by the time he hit the den for winter. Don't know for sure if skull would grow too much more than that, but may have gotten bigger weight wise in years to come. That is a great bear, congradulations once again Jessie.
Post by: Eli346 on May 04, 2016, 08:08:26 AM
Post by: TrailTreker85 on May 04, 2016, 08:16:10 AM
so i got my tooth age report for this bear.. 8 years old. young for a bear that big?? the taxidermist guessed he wasnt any older than 7 or 8 because his teeth were so nice. but he said that is decently young for a 450lb 20 inch skull bear...
That's funny because I was total opposite. The taxi said looked to be old due to how worn his teeth where but after I got the tooth report it said he was only 4 years old.
Post by: jessie88 on May 04, 2016, 09:20:23 AM
so i got my tooth age report for this bear.. 8 years old. young for a bear that big?? the taxidermist guessed he wasnt any older than 7 or 8 because his teeth were so nice. but he said that is decently young for a 450lb 20 inch skull bear...
That's funny because I was total opposite. The taxi said looked to be old due to how worn his teeth where but after I got the tooth report it said he was only 4 years old.
weird man!! gotta just be what they are eating and how easy they were eating i would imagine
Post by: jessie88 on May 04, 2016, 09:21:30 AM
so i got my tooth age report for this bear.. 8 years old. young for a bear that big?? the taxidermist guessed he wasnt any older than 7 or 8 because his teeth were so nice. but he said that is decently young for a 450lb 20 inch skull bear...
Jessie, black bear are fully mature around 6.5 years old. Your bear is a fully mature boar, I'm sure if you didn't harvest him he would have been real close to 480-500 lbs by the time he hit the den for winter. Don't know for sure if skull would grow too much more than that, but may have gotten bigger weight wise in years to come. That is a great bear, congradulations once again Jessie.
gotcha! i still cant get over it tgomez. haha i had no idea what i had when i dropped him. knew i would do a rug but had no idea he was that big. bears are some of the hardest to judge size and weight wise.
Post by: jessie88 on May 04, 2016, 09:23:07 AM
It's amazing when you put 2 skulls side by side and see the difference that only a couple of inches makes! I put my bear next to my buddy's bear and only 1 1/2" makes a big difference. His weighed about 100 lbs more than mine but he got his in Nov. and I got mine in Aug. Great bear Jesse. I knew you had a winner!
thanks eli :tup: and i agree. putting my boars skull next to my old females skull its a crazy difference.
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