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Jake runs his own guide outfit Mark, not sure he is here on the 'Fire but he goes by the username BRWNBR on some other forums. Here's a link to his outfit. http://www.outdoorsdirectory.com/akpages/blackriverhunting/index.htm

Sounds like a fella that is good to know, thx for the links.

Dober

What did the skull score?

27 3/4" green

About 10% of Kodiak bears the past 5 years scored at least 28" green...

your right ...that does sound stupid and I bowhunt too. definitely major pucker factor on that bear.

Not putting Jake down as he is an internet friend.

Lots of guides shoot 10' bears. You measure from the tip of the front paw to the tip of the opposite rear paw. Tip of the other front paw to tip of the other rear paw, add and divide by two. Ten foot bear almost every time.:D

Yes, the ever popular diagonal-bear!
the guy on the TV show Northwest Hunter has a similar way of measuring his bears, IIRC.

This spring I got a bear that measured an honest 8'4". Just for the halibut we stretched it to see how much more we could get out of it. 9'7" is what we got. And then there is the aforementioned diagonal method. It goes to show how much somebody could screw with a measurement if they want to. I am not saying this is the case here, that looks like a huge bear. I think that happens a lot more than people think though.

skudrunner
Have seen lots of drumhead tight bears measured... Congratulations on staying out of that one. Nothing wrong with an 8' bear.
art

Thanks Sitka. It had a beautiful hide on it and was a lot of hard fun work to get it, and it fed a local mushers dog team. It's a trophy in my eyes regardless of how you measure it.

Dubya-Oh-Dubya


WOW! I need to come up with the time and scratch to get in on that kind of hunt!

The bear mount on display at the Anch. Airport was killed by a hunter named Will Gay in 1997 on Kodiak Island.
According to the 12th Edition of Boone and Crocketts North American Big Game Records it is listed in a four way tie for number 8 all-time with a skull measurement of 30 4/16.
An incredible specimen to be sure, in fact it is the largest Brown Bear skull to have been recorded in decades and is one of only 21 with a skull listed over 30 inches.
However the World's Record Brown Bear is still recognized as being held by Roy Lindsley. This record has stood since 1953. The bear was killed at Karluk Lake on May 23rd 1952 and was killed to be part of a museum exhibit for the Los Angeles Museum.
The bear was a mammoth specimen and I'm going to quote some measurements that are found in the excellent book by Harry Dodge III, titled Kodiak Island And Its Bears.
The bear hide weighed 157 pounds. The crew had a scale with a capacity of 100 pounds and apparently every ounce of meat and bone were weighed. 30 pounds were added for blood and body fluid lost for a total of 1,033 pounds. Add the hide and the bear was 1,190 pounds spring weight.
Imagine what he would go in the fall.
The B&C World's Record Brown Bear had the following field measurements.
8'6'' nose to tail, hind foot- 13 3/4. hide-11'2 1/2'' by 9'8 1/2''.
The skull is 17 15/16'' long and 12 13/16'' wide for a score of 30 14/16.
That is a heck of an animal no matter how you measure it.
The bear that stands in the B Concourse of the Anch. Airport is world class but not the world's record. No matter it is still an historical animal and I look at it in awe everytime I see it.
The story is published in the 23rd Big Game Awards Book published by B&C.
Very interesting and well written it gives the reader a first hand account of the hunt for a bear most hunters would love to just see much less get a scope on.
The bear had been collared at some point, was still carrying the collar when killed and was known to be a bear that would not den for the winter.
Anyway I wrote this to say yes the bear killed this fall on Kodiak proves there are some giants still roaming the Island today. Good for the guide/hunter in finding him.
I'll take mine in the grizzly variety though!

An 1190 lb. spring bear would really be amazing to see. I read in P & T's book about a similar weighing scheme where a fall bear from Kodiak went about 1600 lbs, using a similar weighing method.

Was this thread's bear the one that was taken on the road system? I had heard about a 10 footer taken this year up here, but it seems the word is that a 10 footer comes from the road system every year.

If you are visiting Anchorage lately, concourse B is closed; they moved the "Gay" bear up near Alaska Airlines ticketing and baggage check-in.

BTW sbabcock, thanks for the correction about "world's record" status.

Somehow that just dont sound right now does it?

I dunno. Seems appropriate for it to be nearer AK Air.

kid
This is the one from the American River area, from what I understand.
art

I read in the paper where ADF&G shot a sow and three cubs below the American bridge a couple of weeks ago.

Why?