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That's a good one Sitka. I remember back in the 60's, a friend and I took two girls that were working working at Fishing Bridge to the West Yellowstone dump to see the Grizzlies. Boy were we impressed! Those buggers came in to the dump and the Coyotes and the Black Bears took off running. One walked right next to the car and had to look down to see in the window of our 1958 Bel Air. It was not long after that the dumps were moved or made bear proof. I think shrapnel can come up with the dates. It was 1966 when we went there.
Now back to the monster pictured..
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I’ll bet the wolves hate to see him coming.
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I would cshit a white blackbird if I ran up on a Bear. I would probably freeze and become a scrawny snack.
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jeez.........big sob........and fat
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Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH
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Time to break-out the “Creedmoor”! memtb
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From that angle he doesn't look like a spring bear....might be the way the picture is taken. A picture is necessarily accurate anymore.
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From that angle he doesn't look like a spring bear....might be the way the picture is taken. A picture is necessarily accurate anymore. That is definitely spring snow
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I wonder how much that bear would weigh. I wouldn’t have a decent guess. Maybe 800??
I suck at guessing feral pigs weight.
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DAMN! he must have eaten an elk before his nap, just got a Shiloh rebarrel to 45 3-1/4" SS off the brown truck yesterday I'd love to use on one of those. A pard killed one on Kodiak a few years back with his Sharps 50-140 Gunner. Shot a 400gr Barnes Original into his left eye socket from about 7 yards when they surprised each other. Bear squared 9’10” but his skull wasn’t measurable due to the whole eyeball shot thing.
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This bruin came out of his nest early and is looking for food, not far from West Yellowstone, MT... They grow them big in that area. Watched a big silver backed grizzly ripping a hole in the ground in Park Creek one year I was hunting up there.
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The Wyo. G &F had to kill a big bore about 15 or so years ago, just out of Meeteetse. The bear was weighed on a local scale, that had an 850 pound maximum.....the bear exceeded that! A full mount was made.....he’s in the Meeteese Museum! A pretty impressive bear! memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
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boar....
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boar.... Don’t ya just love these d@£n computers that know better what you want to say than you do! So.......don’t “boar” me with details! memtb
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Most bears are quite fat when they first come out in early Spring. They actually lose very little fat during torpor.
The odd lucky bear may find a winterkill, but most will be using their fat stores while stuff greens up.
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I bow hunt in island park. We get a lot of big griz in the area during bow season. I think some are locals and some come from the park for gut piles. Someone always has pics of big ones on their trail cams. My hunting partner got charged by a big one a few years back. He won't hardly bow hunt the area anymore.
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Most bears are quite fat when they first come out in early Spring. They actually lose very little fat during torpor.
The odd lucky bear may find a winterkill, but most will be using their fat stores while stuff greens up.
Ted Ted I mostly agree with you, but I have seen many circumstances where spring brown bears had opportunity to eat meat and passed. In fall they will eat their own kind immediately but not so much in the spring. They seem to want to run some grass through to restart the processing properly.
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DAMN! he must have eaten an elk before his nap, just got a Shiloh rebarrel to 45 3-1/4" SS off the brown truck yesterday I'd love to use on one of those. A pard killed one on Kodiak a few years back with his Sharps 50-140 Gunner. Shot a 400gr Barnes Original into his left eye socket from about 7 yards when they surprised each other. Bear squared 9’10” but his skull wasn’t measurable due to the whole eyeball shot thing. SHEET!, glad your Bud kept it together and made a good clean hit, I got too see a big silver sided grizz hunting elk in The Thorofare one year, ranged after he left at 88 yards across a draw, that 338 in my lap looked like a damn water gun, a cinnamon colored black bear was shot in his left eye socket bow hunting elk and mule deer back in the 90's, I couldn't scare him off, less than 20 yards is close enough, I shot him with my right knee on the wet black dirt, after the shot, I jumped up so hard and fast I ripped the tail end out of my hunting pants, when he fell in the tall yellow grass and I couldn't see him, I really got a case of the heebs!
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You eastern tender feet are funny. This is nothing more than a average size boar. I spend 30+ days a year in grizzly country and have seen plenty. Guys miss judge the size of bears all the time, especially grizzlies.
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