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The ears look to big for one over 200
Music washes away the dust of everyday life Some people wait a lifetime to meet their favorite hunting and shooting buddy. Mine calls me dad
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He's not big in inches but young and pretty well fleshed. I'd say not more than 220.
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How much does this one weigh? No not the one in yellow.
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Steelhead, he looks like a 375- 400 pound bear but I would not be too surprised if he was more. How's that for hedging my bet?
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The one bear we got out whole so we had to weigh him.
287 pounds
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He had a big head! I killed one a couple years ago that went 350 so I was going by that. Nice pelt!
Faith and love of others knows no mileage nor bounds. That's simply the way it is. dogzapper
After the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box. Italian Proverb
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People typically way overestimate a bear's size. .
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People typically way overestimate a bear's size. . Truth
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
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Steelhead, he looks like a 375- 400 pound bear but I would not be too surprised if he was more. How's that for hedging my bet? Wow steelhead must be a beeg sumbitch!!! Grin
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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People typically way overestimate a bear's size. . My younger son spent a couple of summers working where bears raided the cook tent, wandered through camp, sneaked up on him while he was working, etc. He developed an axiom for bears: All bears are huge, except for the ones that get shot and measured.
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That bear is about an inch long on my computer screen , smaller as it went away from the camera. It would be bigger if I went full screen.
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Steelhead, he looks like a 375- 400 pound bear but I would not be too surprised if he was more. How's that for hedging my bet? Wow steelhead must be a beeg sumbitch!!! Grin Someone has been talking....
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People typically way overestimate a bear's size. . Whats the old saying? Bears are heaviest the farther from a scale.
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I want to play!! How big is this one. https://youtu.be/jPrK0_2wiY8
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You have to get closer than that for an accurate guess........
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I’ve seen a Pa 500 pound + up close and going away like the one in the first video. The owner of the property said the GC tagged and weighed him, which is where the weight came from. His rear waddling away looked like the back end of an F250. He got up at spitting range and there was no doubt he was exceptional. That one isnt even close.
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We think 6’8” 430#. But we are rank amateurs. LOL.
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Back in the late 1970's I was assigned an article by what was then a major outdoor magazine on the "bear rangers" of Glacier National Park. Their job was to prevent problems between tourists and grizzly bears, and I'd follow one of the rangers (a fellow student at the U. of Montana) around for a few days and see what happened.
It just so happened that a "sub-adult" male bear was hanging out near one of the back-country chalets, where a lot of tourists hiked in and stayed. He hadn't been causing any problems, but the rangers who'd seen the bear estimated his weight at anywhere from 175 to 300 pounds. These were people who'd often tranquilizer-darted grizzlies to move them out of heavy tourist-use areas.
We found the bear very soon, within sight of the chalet. In fact people lined up with binoculars and spotting scopes to watch him feeding on glacier lilies a quarter-mile away, but the bear soon wandered off, and my buddy and I followed him.
It turned out the other reason the bear was hanging out in the area--near one of the major trails into the chalet--was a mountain goat carcass near the main trail. We had an interesting encounter with the bear on the carcass, and the head bear ranger decided to dart and move him somewhere far, far away.
I got to go along and photograph the darting, which ended up with the bear running into nearby timber, and the rangers (with me right behind, armed with only a camera) not finding the bear until half an hour later, when the boar had started to recover from the tranquilizer. The bear couldn't stand up, but when one of the rangers poked him in the butt with the muzzle of the tranquilizer gun, the bear turned and bit the muzzle, growling loudly. Whereupon he was was darted again.
There's a lot more to the story, but it turned out the bear weighed 118 pounds.
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Bumped into this one right before the season of 2016. He hung around long enough to get an idea of his size. Decided he would benefit from time if he hung around, but someone else thought different. He made just over 200.
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