Good lord. My buddy shot a 10'8" last fall and I thought that was huge......do they get much bigger then 11'?
Yes......hundred years ago.
There was an 11'-3" taken on Karluk Lake in spring of 81' We watched him the fall of 1980 he came up out of Ulga Bay and crossed the outlet of O'Malley Lake and straight up and over to Karluk Valley, and he was pushing four feet of snow. We thought he would roll back down the mountain.
AAA Guides and Outfitters has a small pocket of private/corporate land they pay a lot of money to guide a very few hunters on. Lots of huge bears there, but not open to public hunting. It will therefore continue to produce super high quality bears for decades.
