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Post by tuketu on Feb 8, 2016 15:41:52 GMT -4
What is a Trophy bear to you?
Do you seek the the bear of all bears? Is it for the meat? Looking for skull dimensions? Or is it perhaps just being able to get up close and personal with this Boreal Ghost of the Forest ?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2016 10:28:52 GMT -4
to me....a true trophy ,meaning large, is a bear with a 19 inch or better skull. when they start getting that big.....they are big. imo skull size is the truest and most easily standardized measure.....scales vary greatly unless u have a good set....hide measurments can be manipualted...but with a skull...an inch is an in is an inch.
If I bear hunt again....thats the only measurment I'll keep for my records.
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Post by kenkps53 on Mar 15, 2016 20:26:28 GMT -4
The bear I target, pick one for the year and that is the one I go after, if successful then that is a trophy
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Post by tuketu on Mar 15, 2016 21:36:28 GMT -4
Funny Ken ... I've never really looked at it that way. I've always been a "If it looks like a shooter" kinda guy. Besides if I have to start naming them to tell them apart , they become pets , then I can't shoot the dang things !
Case and Point ....Stumpy ! Mind you, I watched him hold his own at the bait site and he wasn't afraid to to show a little attitude. He's wasn't a shooter last year but pretty scrawny at the first of baiting but he did fill out nicely for winter. I'm sure he went to bed with a full belly!
Funny I've been thinking about you lately, especially with fishing season near ...I still have and use that Mitchell flyrod and JW Young reel I bought of ya a million years ago !
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2016 22:12:09 GMT -4
Hey Ken, your comments about picking a bear & going after it got my attention. That is, as Tuk put it, a little different than the mainstream bear Hunter who is look'in for a "shooter".
The idea of picking out an adversary & making it "one on one" does peak my interest. Please don't just tease us but share your experiences brother! I do recall in 2008 when I was drawn for a damage control spring hunt that I singled out a particular bear & we finally met at 30 paces. I will attempt later to post that story.
In in the meantime, please share some stories/pics with us please.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2016 22:15:15 GMT -4
Tuk! Stumpy...very cool, the pics make it so interesting. Don't stop Podner.
And for you non-members who are "visiting", pull a seat up to the campfire, your'e welcome. Stories, comments, & questions are all welcome. We share a common interest. We don't bite.
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Post by tuketu on Mar 15, 2016 22:29:19 GMT -4
Yeh Stumpy was pretty thin when we first got pics of him on the tcam. I just felt so bad for him.
From what I could tell the wound looked fresh. Poor bugger survived that, and by all accounts he seemed to be doing well mobility wise. I had briefly entertained using my tag to relieve his suffering but as I watched him/her I realized the it was adapting well to its impediment.
Stumpy just after I started baiting
I call this the Bear Elf shot ... almost looks like he's sitting on the barrel. He gained a lot of weight in 5 1/2 weeks.
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Post by hotwire on Oct 9, 2018 18:23:23 GMT -4
Every bear that I have taken has been a trophy in one way or an other. I don't target them or deer for that matter on size but on the quality of the animal for putting meat in the freezer. If it is a bear that is around the 200 lb to 300 lb range it's a trophy worth taking a deer has to be one that is nicely filled out not a rut swollen old buck but a nicely filled out three year old will do nicely.
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Post by tuketu on Oct 15, 2018 7:41:27 GMT -4
Couldn't have said it better myself Hotwire.
I've never been a trophy hunter... more the quality of the hunt than the size of the harvest.
" I do not hunt to kill ...but kill to have hunted "
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 22:45:20 GMT -4
The bear that dies with a quick clean kill.
Also, the closer to the truck, the higher the trophy score.
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Post by hotwire on Oct 16, 2018 20:13:37 GMT -4
The last bear I shot I had to drag it out over 400 yards . I'm glad that it was only a bear that was 175 lb's field dressed . I was asked if I wanted to shoot a bear that was visiting a buddies deer bait and eating all his apples that he had carried in that distance . We went to the Lawrence Town Depot and I bought my license went to his blind and I was in the blind for about 15 minuets and out he came . I waited an other 15 to see if any thing else came out but nothing did so up went the 6.5x55 and down went the bear . No tracking required . I checked out the area for signs of other bears but did not find any and that was the only one that he had pictures of on his trail cams . He was happy and so was I , he did not want any of the meat so I split it up between my-self and some of my children. That was 3 seasons ago and since that time I have put 3 other hunters in good spots, only one shot a bear but the others all saw bears just not what they wanted . The guys I helped find a spot and loaned my barrel to this year had bears coming to their site but they only secured the barrel with a small cord and one of the bears took off with the barrel . I don't think they found it yet. They were using corn and oats and barley mixed with molasses and cracked corn as bait and had 4 individual bears visiting the site regularly but you know how it is when work interferes with hunting . I wish them all the luck in the world and that goes for all the bear hunters out there, good luck and safe hunting for what ever your trophy bear may be .
Sincerely , GW
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