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Title: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: scottfrick on March 10, 2012, 01:59:23 PM: Took my wifes bear rug in to the taxi last august. Gotta wait till august/sept of this year to get it back. Id like to see some of your guys bear rugs and how good they look on the wall.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: woodman on March 10, 2012, 03:28:29 PM: I have had some made into rugs and here is one with a great niece on it. I would show the one with my wife on it but she would kill me! :chuckle:
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: scottfrick on March 10, 2012, 03:51:28 PM: Your wife on it would help me have a better understanding on big the bears were. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Hunting Cowboy on March 10, 2012, 07:51:12 PM: Not a very good pic of the bear rug. He was 8-1/2 yrs old and 225lbs.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: bearpaw on March 10, 2012, 08:02:37 PM: I like your picture woodman.... :tup: :tup: :tup:
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: scottfrick on March 10, 2012, 08:17:21 PM: Great pictures guys. I never did get my wifes weighed. dragging it down to the road by my self and trying to load it into the truck I would guess it was probably around 200 pounds maybe a little bit more. It was a boar and had a really nice coat and a very nice tan snout.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: lokidog on March 10, 2012, 08:45:28 PM: I'd love to but some chickenshat stole it off my wall. 7'2" nose to tail and about 450 pounds spring weight (Ontario). :bash:
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on March 10, 2012, 08:55:09 PM: Here is a bunch of links to pictures of Bear Rugs that I have done. I thought it would make things easier for everyone if I posted links to pictures instead of a bunch of pictures. That way for those with slower computers it wouldn't be a download nightmare.

I've got a couple more Bear Rugs finnish. Havn't getten a chance to take pictures yet. I'll post those when I do.

5'3" Chocolate Phase Black Bear Rug
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?topic=89506.0

5'6" Cinnamon Phase Black Bear Rug (MNTaxidermy)
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?topic=88628.0

5'10" Cinnamon Bear Rug
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?topic=53339.0

6'3 Color Phase Bear Rug
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?topic=54497.0

6'5" Black Bear Rug
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?topic=53698.0

6'9" Black Bear Rug
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?topic=53342.0

Before & After Bear Rug
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?topic=28803.0
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: carpsniperg2 on March 10, 2012, 09:04:28 PM: Quote from: lokidog on March 10, 2012, 08:45:28 PM
I'd love to but some chickenshat stole it off my wall. 7'2" nose to tail and about 450 pounds spring weight (Ontario). :bash:

:o wow! You have any pics from when you shot it lokidog. That is a true giant :tup:
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: scottfrick on March 10, 2012, 09:22:03 PM: Those are all great looking rugs Michelle_Nelson. You do some really good work :tup:
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: lokidog on March 10, 2012, 09:30:42 PM: Quote from: carpsniperg2 on March 10, 2012, 09:04:28 PM
Quote from: lokidog on March 10, 2012, 08:45:28 PM
I'd love to but some chickenshat stole it off my wall. 7'2" nose to tail and about 450 pounds spring weight (Ontario). :bash:

:o wow! You have any pics from when you shot it lokidog. That is a true giant :tup:

I'll have to do some digging, luckily I had a photo of it on the wall with a 6' level leaning next to it for the insurance company. I'll have to see if I can find the original photo from when I was like 18 or 20....
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Biggerhammer on March 12, 2012, 07:55:03 PM: (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi90.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk269%2Flandonmoses%2FDSC00632.jpg&hash=d385d6529abd59579ebbee953c85d9a8c7192496)
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on March 12, 2012, 08:01:47 PM: Quote from: woodman on March 10, 2012, 03:28:29 PM
I have had some made into rugs and here is one with a great niece on it. I would show the one with my wife on it but she would kill me! :chuckle:
Thats to much :chuckle: :chuckle: Thought i was the only one who might have had one of those :chuckle: :dunno: :tup: but I did not know if i should post something like that on here ya now ? :dunno: :yike:
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: carpsniperg2 on March 12, 2012, 08:15:42 PM: I really like the trim color on that bear hammer :tup:
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: bear hunter on March 12, 2012, 08:29:02 PM: Quote from: lokidog on March 10, 2012, 09:30:42 PM
Quote from: carpsniperg2 on March 10, 2012, 09:04:28 PM
Quote from: lokidog on March 10, 2012, 08:45:28 PM
I'd love to but some chickenshat stole it off my wall. 7'2" nose to tail and about 450 pounds spring weight (Ontario). :bash:

:o wow! You have any pics from when you shot it lokidog. That is a true giant :tup:

I'll have to do some digging, luckily I had a photo of it on the wall with a 6' level leaning next to it for the insurance company. I'll have to see if I can find the original photo from when I was like 18 or 20....
:yike: :bash: :sry: No price can replace that trophy :sry:
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: billythekidrock on March 12, 2012, 08:38:34 PM: (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hunt101.com%2Fdata%2F500%2Fmedium%2FIMG_0355.jpg&hash=c034f6f400832acc67850a2ebcd5bdb92baa3929)
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: carpsniperg2 on March 12, 2012, 08:43:23 PM: :chuckle: Now that is funny :chuckle:
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Bearhunter on March 12, 2012, 08:44:27 PM: Come on willy that guy aint nothing like the milk drinker you killed with me about 14 years ago on the coast, lets see some pictures that that little feller. You still got that 5 point shed I walked right by?
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: lokidog on March 12, 2012, 08:48:13 PM: So here's the only photo I have of mine that got stolen. 7'2" nose to tail. 1982 Ontario, CA That's a 6' orange level next to it.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on March 12, 2012, 09:02:49 PM: nice one loki ...... :tup: :tup:
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: carpsniperg2 on March 12, 2012, 09:23:07 PM: DANG LOKI!!! That has got to be the widest bear I have ever laid eyes on :yike: Easy way to fill a wall when you shoot them that big :chuckle:
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: bear hunter on March 12, 2012, 10:34:25 PM: Had trouble taking pic's hand to lay on the floor and the flash spots. Well here is two of the three bear rug's and a bonus bobcat rug the cat weighed 35lbs and was shot in ferry county in "04". My buddy mounted them for me.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: carpsniperg2 on March 12, 2012, 10:38:05 PM: Good sized cat, was it a east side cat or a different state cat?
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: CementFinisher on March 12, 2012, 10:39:44 PM: Quote from: Biggerhammer on March 12, 2012, 07:55:03 PM
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi90.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk269%2Flandonmoses%2FDSC00632.jpg&hash=d385d6529abd59579ebbee953c85d9a8c7192496)

beautiful Biggerhammer
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: lokidog on March 12, 2012, 10:52:20 PM: Quote from: carpsniperg2 on March 12, 2012, 09:23:07 PM
DANG LOKI!!! That has got to be the widest bear I have ever laid eyes on :yike: Easy way to fill a wall when you shoot them that big :chuckle:

He was a hog, by measuring his girth and using a pig formula that our guide/friend had a lot of success with, we calculated that he weighed 450. This was also a spring bear. Imagine the weight if it was fall. Took five of us all we could do to drag him (on a tarp) to the truck and get him in it! His skull was just short for the books though, shot at five yards with the 30-06.

Lots of nice bears on you guys' walls.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: carpsniperg2 on March 12, 2012, 10:56:49 PM: That is really cool! I only have a half life size mount right now. It was my first bear and turned out good. He was just a small guy at like 130-140 but we called him in and he was my first bear. Michelle has my dandy spring bear. I did not want more taxi bills. My friend that helped me get him out laughed at me. I grabbed him 3 or 4 times to just take his head. I just could not do it. I HAVE NEVER! seen a coat like on my spring bear this last year. It is so beatiful an long! SO I bit the bullet and she is doing a rug for me. I probably won't kill one bigger and he made all time sci books.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: lokidog on March 12, 2012, 11:01:04 PM: Congrats on your bear Carp, look forward to seeing the pics. My first rug got eaten by bugs in someone's garage who had borrowed it from my ex for their wall, and they never put it up. :bash:

Still have the skull from the big guy though. :tup:
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: carpsniperg2 on March 12, 2012, 11:04:45 PM: It really suprises me with some bears. By the body weight you think they would have a huge Mellon on them! Then they just turn out to be small. Then small bears turn out to have a big Mellon on them! The first bear I shot was like only 130-140lbs live weight, but he had a heck of a good Mellon on him for only being 3 years old! There is no doubt in my mind he would have hit the 19" mark when he was good and mature.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: woodman on March 13, 2012, 06:38:06 AM: Another cat rug, we had fun that day with our great niece.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: boneaddict on March 13, 2012, 06:59:55 AM: Thats one of the nicest bear rugs I have seen biggerhammer, from trophy quality to hair quality to mount. Seriously a beautiful rug.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Woodchuck on March 13, 2012, 07:19:35 AM: Before and after.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: ICEMAN on March 13, 2012, 07:22:06 PM: Here is the smallest of the bunch so far...
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: lokidog on March 13, 2012, 08:04:32 PM: Cool color Ice, looks like her dye job is growing out. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: ICEMAN on March 13, 2012, 08:17:46 PM: Yeah, I was pretty excited to find this bear. It looked HUUUUUUUGGGGEEEEE in my spotter! :bash:

I do love the color.....
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Biggerhammer on March 13, 2012, 08:39:02 PM: Quote from: boneaddict on March 13, 2012, 06:59:55 AM
Thats one of the nicest bear rugs I have seen biggerhammer, from trophy quality to hair quality to mount. Seriously a beautiful rug.

Thank you, up close and personal. Maybe 20 yards with a .375 H&H. :tup:
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: ICEMAN on March 13, 2012, 08:39:45 PM: 20 yards! Wow.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Biggerhammer on March 13, 2012, 08:52:52 PM: Quote from: ICEMAN on March 13, 2012, 08:39:45 PM
20 yards! Wow.

Yep, I was standing with my GPS in both hands and my rifle on my shoulder and here he came like a ghost, didn't make a sound for being as big as he was. Dropped the GPS and went for the rifle, sight picture, BANG! That fast.. Knocked him down, slipped on the pine needles and almost slid right into him steep down hill, the second shot was point blank, 4ft off the end of the barrel and he was pissed the first shot had broke his back. He wanted a piece of me but just couldn't maneuver to do it. It was a real adrenaline rush, the type where you almost feel sick when you come down. Only experienced that feeling when I was in the military.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: ICEMAN on March 13, 2012, 08:59:58 PM: A pampers moment.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Jim the Plumber on March 13, 2012, 09:02:41 PM: (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1109.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fh427%2FJimthePlumber17%2Fbrug2.jpg&hash=6a1ab0af692455639a4ab5f90b9b2a347705b12e)
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: cedarriver on March 13, 2012, 09:24:55 PM: Beautiful bears Bighammer, Ice and Jim.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: billythekidrock on March 14, 2012, 12:10:11 PM: Quote from: Bearhunter on March 12, 2012, 08:44:27 PM
Come on willy that guy ain't nothing like the milk drinker you killed with me about 14 years ago on the coast, lets see some pictures that that little feller. You still got that 5 point shed I walked right by?

So, first off, the rug in the pic is not mine. Just an opportunity to take a silly photo.
Second, that bear was so small I did not take any pics. You asked if you could and I embarrassingly said "sure". If you got it...hold it.

Yes, I still have that shed. It is in two pieces as I cut part of it for a couple of calls.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Bluemoon on March 14, 2012, 12:43:19 PM: Here's mine
11 year old boar, 72" nose to tail. When skull dried missed B & C by 3/16"
Washington Bear out of Glacier Peak. Quite the story on this one.
300 yards at dead run, one shot, with 2 witness's to back up story.
Shooting Savage 110 30.06 Left Handed of course.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Bearhunter on March 16, 2012, 08:34:32 PM: Just giving so crap Willy, I dont think I ever got those pictures devolped or something, never did seem them... I know I have shot at least one that size :tup:
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: billythekidrock on March 16, 2012, 08:55:23 PM: Quote from: Bearhunter on March 16, 2012, 08:34:32 PM
Just giving so crap Willy, I dont think I ever got those pictures devolped or something, never did seem them... I know I have shot at least one that size :tup:

Well that one was "crap" worthy. I think it is the only one I didn't take a photo of.
:chuckle:

Wasn't much, but it ate good!
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Mandownitis on April 03, 2012, 09:38:29 AM: Here is mine.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Pathfinder101 on April 03, 2012, 10:15:53 AM: Nice rugs guys. I'll have to get to work on mine this year..
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on April 03, 2012, 12:52:21 PM: Like I said you could always leave that little guy here for me to Rug. . . . . . . oh wait you to cheap. :chuckle:

Just don't come pay for your Hide with rolled pennies. :chuckle:

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Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: buckcanyonlodge on April 03, 2012, 02:58:35 PM: Big Mike shot this one and let me hang it up at the Lodge. Nice one.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Austrian Hunter on April 03, 2012, 03:11:38 PM: 8)
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on April 03, 2012, 03:35:40 PM: Can you get a picture of it's back? I've never seen a Chocolate or Cinnamon Color Phase with that much gold on it's back.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Austrian Hunter on April 03, 2012, 04:11:36 PM: Michelle, I know the pic is not much better. But he does have a beautiful blonde stripe down his back.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on April 03, 2012, 04:16:55 PM: Thats cool. Never seen one like that.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Austrian Hunter on April 03, 2012, 04:26:22 PM: one more
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on April 04, 2012, 10:52:08 AM: Boar or a Sow? What did it measure as a rug?
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Pathfinder101 on April 04, 2012, 11:05:01 AM: Quote from: Michelle_Nelson on April 03, 2012, 12:52:21 PM
Like I said you could always leave that little guy here for me to Rug. . . . . . . oh wait you to cheap. :chuckle:

Just don't come pay for your Hide with rolled pennies. :chuckle:

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Wait. I just checked the paperwork. Doesn't say ANYTHING about not paying with rolled pennies >:(

Two more trips through the couch cushions and I should be good to go... :tup:

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Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Austrian Hunter on April 04, 2012, 03:13:30 PM: Quote from: Michelle_Nelson on April 04, 2012, 10:52:08 AM
Boar or a Sow? What did it measure as a rug?

It was a Boar! It measured 5'10" as a rug.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on April 05, 2012, 09:46:48 PM: Thats about what I figgured. I'd take a 5' Color Phase over a 7' Black.
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: MuleySniper on April 05, 2012, 09:48:31 PM: Austrian... That rug is awesome!!
MS
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: Austrian Hunter on April 08, 2012, 08:47:38 AM: Quote from: MuleySniper on April 05, 2012, 09:48:31 PM
Austrian... That rug is awesome!!
MS

Thanks Muley!
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: bucklucky on April 09, 2012, 03:08:32 PM: That sure was a pretty bear man! Nice job Austrian!
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: CementFinisher on May 04, 2012, 10:26:10 PM: My 2010 bear from rainier taxidermy completed first of last month
Title: Re: Show me your bear rugs
Post by: denali on May 04, 2012, 10:33:38 PM: this my 2010 sow