Some big bear in Virginia too. No 800 pounders but quite a few in the 500-600 pound range. I passed up 3 different ones the 2nd week of muzzleloader season. One of those was easily 450-500.
The bears in the Rockies and much of the interior west generally have a larger, rangier skeletal size but carry a lot less weight. The skull on a 350 lb Rocky Mountain bear can qualify for B&C while a 500 lb bear in the mid-Atlantic states won't. The speculation is the bears in the west need to be rangier to negotiate the terrain.
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The bears in the Rockies and much of the interior west generally have a larger, rangier skeletal size but carry a lot less weight. The skull on a 350 lb Rocky Mountain bear can qualify for B&C while a 500 lb bear in the mid-Atlantic states won't. The speculation is the bears in the west need to be rangier to negotiate the terrain.
Don't forget hibernate 5 months of the year
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The highest scoring B&C bear I ever helped take was a desert bear above Canyonlands National Park in southern Utah, and I doubt this bear weighed much over 300 lbs. He was an old lanky, skinny boar but his skull measured over 22 inches.
