UncleRick
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i'm new to this forum so this may be the wrong place to ask this question. please correct me if i'm wrong.
i live in alaska, up here we talk about the size of bears (black or brown) as it they square out, average of length of hide from nose to stub tail by the width from front claws to claws. thats a 8 1/2 foot grizzly, thats a 6 foot black bear, or that browny squared 10foot 3. Over the years of talking with hunters in the lower 48 and watching hunting shows it seems everybody else does it by weight, that bear weighed 350lbs or that one weighed 400.
forget the Boone and Crocket skull measurements
From here on i'm talking about Black Bears.
my first bear squared 5 foot 8 inches ( roughly 180 lbs, spring) my second an even 6 footer (280lbs ish... ok maybe it was 240ish. spring) haven't bothered to shoot another. and ive passed up some big ones on the coast. i have helped skin out and butcher another dozen or so. (most memorable was the neighbor down the island shooting a black bear 15 feet of the porch when she was pregnant and 2 days over due) I don't particularly care for the bear meat, even high mountain berry bears. but if I see that one Mountain BERRY bear that i think will square over 7 feet i would drop it in a heartbeat.
MY QUESTION HERE IS, where are you from and/or hunting, at how and why do you judge size, and what is a shooter? i'm more curious about this than about how people judge deer
i live in alaska, up here we talk about the size of bears (black or brown) as it they square out, average of length of hide from nose to stub tail by the width from front claws to claws. thats a 8 1/2 foot grizzly, thats a 6 foot black bear, or that browny squared 10foot 3. Over the years of talking with hunters in the lower 48 and watching hunting shows it seems everybody else does it by weight, that bear weighed 350lbs or that one weighed 400.
forget the Boone and Crocket skull measurements
From here on i'm talking about Black Bears.
my first bear squared 5 foot 8 inches ( roughly 180 lbs, spring) my second an even 6 footer (280lbs ish... ok maybe it was 240ish. spring) haven't bothered to shoot another. and ive passed up some big ones on the coast. i have helped skin out and butcher another dozen or so. (most memorable was the neighbor down the island shooting a black bear 15 feet of the porch when she was pregnant and 2 days over due) I don't particularly care for the bear meat, even high mountain berry bears. but if I see that one Mountain BERRY bear that i think will square over 7 feet i would drop it in a heartbeat.
MY QUESTION HERE IS, where are you from and/or hunting, at how and why do you judge size, and what is a shooter? i'm more curious about this than about how people judge deer
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