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Score: 23 10/16
Year: 1975
Location: Sanpete County, Utah
Hunter: Found and "picked up"
The current world record for black bear—a 23 10/16-inch skull picked up in Sanpete County, Utah—has stood since 1975, but a Pennsylvania bear shot in 2011 missed the record by only 1/16 of an inch. "The purpose of the Boone and Crockett records is to gauge conservation success and failures," Spring points out, "and this is one of the categories I am most excited about for the message of solid wildlife conservation it portrays." States are adding bear seasons and bears are showing up in old ranges where they've been AWOL for decades, and the results are evident in the Boone and Crockett entries. More than half of the top 10 black bears have been taken since 2011.

Mine is on the floor, the dogs love it!

I like it hung angled, head down so you can see the mouth. I used about a dozen 1 1/2" finishing nails to hold mine. A rug on the floor looks nice, but people walking on it will ruin it. I put mine in a stairway because I need the wall space in rooms for other critters.