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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: wabearhunter on August 21, 2010, 07:24:53 AM

Title: biggest bear you've taken
Post by: wabearhunter on August 21, 2010, 07:24:53 AM: what's the biggest bear you've taken? (live weight) :drool:
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Post by: rasbo on August 21, 2010, 07:31:41 AM: never was able to weight them alive,350 no guts for mine..
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Post by: h20hunter on August 21, 2010, 08:17:05 AM: Well, this one gal I knew.......

No really, still looking for my first. How about a pic if you got it to go along with your bear. Good post.
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Post by: buckhorn2 on August 21, 2010, 08:22:52 AM: Our biggest weighed 434 on the cannery scales.
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Post by: casey58 on August 21, 2010, 01:00:49 PM: mine was 310 cleaned out 6 hours after I shot it. will not shoot one in that hole again :bdid:
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Post by: woodman on August 21, 2010, 01:24:16 PM: Mine was #360 field dressed at the meat locker.

The second pic I don't have a weight on.
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Post by: 7mm short mag on August 21, 2010, 02:52:30 PM: this one is 480 dressed.
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Post by: Lightning_Rider on August 21, 2010, 03:04:10 PM: Holy crap that thing is hog!!!
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Post by: GoldTip on August 21, 2010, 03:48:06 PM: Never weighed a bear I've killed. We just measured them in MT, killed a couple here as well. Biggest I've killed was 6'9" nose to tail.
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Post by: huntnnw on August 22, 2010, 02:48:07 PM: Where I hunt bears don't come out whole
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Post by: boneaddict on August 22, 2010, 02:51:54 PM: I have that problem too...the bigger they are, the farther from the road they are. Interesting correlation huh? :)
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Post by: casey58 on August 22, 2010, 03:03:18 PM: ya mine I had to weigh in 3 pieces so hard to say how accurate that was
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Post by: huntnnw on August 22, 2010, 07:18:43 PM: No kidding, bears are the most awkward animals to move. What really gets me is an outfitter that has all pics of whole bears at the lodge. Sorry but we have killed a ton of bears up here, u just. Don't move a 250lb bear out whole. Fishy fishy stuff
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Post by: Houndhunter on August 22, 2010, 07:26:51 PM: the head and the meat is usually all that comes back with me, but my best is 5'8'' nose to tail which aint much
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Post by: BLUEBULLS on August 23, 2010, 07:40:27 AM: Not sure the weight but he was pretty much right at 7ft.
He sure did have a ton of fat for a spring bear, probably 5 inches thick in spots.

what do you guys think a weight could be?
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Post by: wabearhunter on August 23, 2010, 07:47:11 AM: maybe around 375-400 lbs? :dunno:
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Post by: demontang on August 23, 2010, 12:59:21 PM: Only shot one bear but it was guess at 300-320 live by the meat cutter. it was 200 with no head/hind ect, the head was heavy as heck and the paws where 5.5inchs across and the skull would just make the books but it cracked :(
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Post by: high country on August 23, 2010, 03:34:16 PM: I am 265lbs in the pics, 6' even. this was a spring bear so he was low on fat...but plenty heavy.
pictured is a pair of 8x42 leica's and a bag you would get oranges in filled with morels. I never got an actual weight because I never really cared, but now I am curious.
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Post by: snocobearhunter on August 23, 2010, 04:26:59 PM: didn't get a wieght on hime had to bone him out in the field but he's 7 ft. from nose to tail and 7 ft. from paw to paw
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Post by: seth30 on August 23, 2010, 04:30:49 PM: Snocohunter, your bear pics never cease to amaze me. :tup: :tup: :tup: :tup:
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Post by: snocobearhunter on August 23, 2010, 04:45:28 PM: well glad you enjoy em if i didn't miss one yesterday there would be another photo goin up
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Post by: lokidog on August 23, 2010, 04:58:53 PM: For those who can't/won't pack one out whole, I think there are some good girth to weight tables to figure it out.

My best was 7'2" spring bear with about an 18" skull. Estimated weight was 450 based on length/girth chart (in 1984), and we did haul it out whole.... It took 6 of us to drag it on flat ground on a tarp about 150 yards and then used a come-along and ramp to get him in the truck. The rug got stolen last fall :bash:
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Post by: Ray on August 23, 2010, 05:27:32 PM: Those are some real nice brutes.

I'm in the dept. with boneaddict. They don't come out whole where I normally hunt. Even if they did, I wouldn't bother weighing them.

This is the largest bear I've got. It was over 18 inches on the skull.
Not nearly as big as some brutes on this topic...

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Post by: yelp on August 23, 2010, 05:56:57 PM: In 1998 I shot my biggest black bear in Washington State..it weighed 429 lbs..6'9" from nose to tail. Shot near Loomis, WA. Skull was over 19.5" I have a bad pic of the rug at the taxi. That is my hunting partner in the pic.
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Post by: Black Bare on August 24, 2010, 11:52:11 AM: 20 9/16th Skull. Arizona black bear.
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Post by: let.it.fly on August 24, 2010, 12:07:01 PM: 240 with no head cape or guts. i duno what that would wieght out on the foot. maybe 300.
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Post by: tony04 on August 27, 2010, 07:42:53 PM: high country, your last pic sure made me laugh. very nice bear!
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Post by: bowhunterforever on August 27, 2010, 11:51:44 PM: I don't go out very often to just target bears, (i just shoot them when i see them and season is open) but mine is 150- 225 no guts. Some of you guys have shot some bruiser bears :drool:
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Post by: Kent Hunter on August 28, 2010, 07:07:52 AM: Don't have any live weights, but I shot two bears up in B.C. about 7 or 8 years ago that both squared at just over 7 foot. One was 7 1/4 in and the other was 7 1/2 in. We went up on a guided hunt for the first time to B.C. and there was 8 people in camp. You are allowed 2 bear each. Everyone had 2 bear tags except for 1 person. So, we had 15 bear tags. We killed 15 bears in 4 days!! It had to be one of the most fun hunts that I have ever been on. Spring bear hunting in B.C. is nothing short of fantastic!!
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Post by: Axle on August 28, 2010, 07:32:19 AM: My biggest one got away :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: Maybe next time I should pull the trigger instead of looking at it for so long.

The other one was small and easy to pack. My wife thought it was the best wild game I ever brought home. While I didn't fully agree, it was darn good eats!
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Post by: PolarBear on August 28, 2010, 07:58:28 AM: Somewhere around 400-430. I arrowed it above Yahoo Lake at Clearwater during early archery elk and by the time I got it packed out the damn thing was spoiled hide and all. I was sick! That was the last time that I ever hunted bear in warm weather.
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Post by: DaveBTS on August 28, 2010, 08:13:31 AM: I got my biggest bear last year down in the Gorge, 7'-3", 450 lbs.
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Post by: epq21 on August 28, 2010, 10:21:38 AM: Not worth weighing after all the sows milk drained away and splattered... :chuckle: :chuckle: On a serious note I learned last year not to guess weights as people seem to take it personal and I didn't have a scale handy to weigh them prior to processing, so the only two bears I have gotten were classified as, "good Bear" and "Great Bear" both of which were yummy in the tummy.
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6ft 2 nose to tail.