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That dog is not to happy about that bear...

Deerstalker, that's a funny one. I've never seen one that big hunting or scouting ... maybe I should just start changing your oil!

A Big Idey Ho bear for sure.

Easy.....a winch and five miles of cable in the back of a truck.

Must have had an uberlanche.

^^^ This! ^^^

Not to say that the bear that started this thread isn't a dandy, especially for Montana.

But I would like to see what one of the north coastal blacks with a hide pushing 8' would weigh if he lived by corn fields all summer.

Did anyone notice that the rifle used was.....a Tikka T3

Corn feeds them up nice, but the northeast corner of Pa. grows some big fat old boars that have good head measurements from dumpsters, landfills and handouts........ 600 lbers. fairly common , 700 lbers not unheard of, and a few 800 lbers for good measure. There is one there that used to wander my old neighborhood close to 900 lbs. big long and as fat as could be. Any bear over 500 is truly awesome, anything bigger regardless of how he got that big is just more awesome!!!!!

Yeah no kidding. Maybe they could put some coins on it's eyes and put a phoucing dress on it for cripes sake. Nobody wants to see blood on a dead animal.

Be nice to him BGG. He's from Oregon and can't help himself.

I can see the point if it's guts are all blown out and dragging behind it or something. But some blood on the muzzle? Really? Give me a phouking break.

As I said....Oregon......

It weren't me that minds the blood. Make plenty of bloody corpses myself.

No kidding, the bear hunting in MT must be a lot easier than the places I hunt bears. We can't get 'em out without caping and boning them first! How the heck do you get a truck to a bear?

Did you miss the part about it being in a corn field?

Actually, he is pretty close. Largest taxpayer here in our district.

Yes, I did. Was I supposed to read that attached article or just look at the bear photo with blood all over it?

I need to hunt cornfields again I guess!

Tarkio, is there any chance that you could try to follow up on this over time and post the length of the hide and the skull score measurements? I'm curious as to how these heavy weight bears score. Call it a public service on your part!

There is a disconnect between those who weigh bears and those who measure skulls and squared hides. We have no way of knowing how a 600 lb. bear compares to a 7 footer with a 21 inch skull. A big bear can add easily 100 lbs. or much more of weight between spring and Fall.

It's kinda like: I got a whitetail with 4 inch long hooves.

she is a fair sized bear for here. largest I have seen taken around here was 475 lbs. with a Thompson center 30-06 pistol.
if you look close at that picture you can see her cub just behind her head. as to the oil change, its my gun shop not auto shop.

The Portlandians get a little woozy.

Tell him they ran it with hounds and shot it out of a tree, it'll take a double-dose of Midol to cure the cramping and bloating.