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Sounds like a good one. Hope it's not rubbed. Bob

I had a buddy just last week shoot pretty nice interior grizz with his bow, taped out at 7'6" and had a 26 1/2" skull. Looking forward to the pics of your bear Tony.

Excellent! That's a big interior bear.

Guy

Yee haw! Years ago I gave brief thought to hunting grizzly with a bow... Then decided that I really like my rifles!

Guy

Vern I had several baits on the Tanana and a few in the Gerstle area, there are some big bastids hanging around in that area, not your average 6-7’ Toklats you see often. We had one we named Satan bear that was every bit of 8’. When a bear takes a 55 gal drum chained to a 30ft 12” diameter fallen white spruce and drags the whole mess 30 yards through the woods you know he’s eaten his Wheaties!

Squared 101 inches.,..8'5"


340 yards, qtr away, hit him twice angling forward.

Picked one bullet off the hide, behind the off-side shoulder.

He rolled about 50 yards down a ridge and dropped dead.

Both shots took out vitals and penetrated 3ft of grizz. Both shots were about 3 inches apart

300 rum, 200 Accubonds, 3150mv

Both bullets recovered were perfect mushrooms

Nice and congrats!

Still on my list to do with a bow eventually. May not ever get that far.

Congratulations! Nice bear!

Would enjoy reading ‘the rest of the story’ when you have the time.

Nice job! Wooly looking succker!

Thanks Art, it's was an epic adventure.

Took him on day 7.

We saw in total, 7 bears....2 boars, 2 sows and 3 cubs.

Both boars were huge, sows were 7 footers.

We found this boar while watching a sow and cub

They were calmly feeding, then the sow went on full alert and ran partway up a mtn.

She kept looking down at something at the bottom of the mtn.

We moved to a better vantage point, and saw him lying on top of a small knoll at the bottom of a mtn.

We stalked on a ridge, opposite the knoll the boar was on, accross a valley. Because of the wind, we couldn't get any closer to the bear.

We ranged him at 340.

I found a nice big rock, with a flat top to sit behind.

Rolled up my hat and placed it under the forend.

Cranked up the scope to 10x and settled in. Honestly, it was like sitting on a bench rest. Cross hairs were Rock solid.

Bear was qtr away from me. I turned to the guide and said I can make this shot, no problem....he said go for it.

So it setup, aiming so the the bullet would end up on the off side shoulder, and squeezed one off.

The bear lurched forward, and I let another one go.

He the stood up, and started swatting at his left shoulder, stumbled,and rolled down the knoll he was on.
Somewhere in there I let #3 go.

When he got to the bottom of the knoll, he was wobbly, and I let #4 go, and he dropped and didn't move.

First 2 shots were perfect, one we found under the skin on the off side shoulder, the second probably ended up near the front of his chest.

#3 was a miss, #4 went through his rear legs and broke one.

Basically, he was dead after the first 2 shots, but I kept the 300rum barking until he stopped moving !

I'll post pics of the 200ABs I recovered, but they performed perfectly, and looked like something out of an Nosler advertisement.

Are you back in the big city?

Good job!

Yes, back in Anchorage til tonight

What did you do with your skull and hide?

At an expediter near Palmer

Don't have the skull measurement yet, but they tell me it's big, and might make book

I should find out the green measurements shortly.

Ah, good deal! The hide looks good in the picture, should make an impressive mount.

Hide is perfect

Life-size it!

I am !

That will be cool!