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#465490 - 11/05/08 12:47 PM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: Sol]
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Thank you Tim, back at you.

When you take a fine animal with a traditional bow, you put yourself in a class far above the rest.

Takes one bad hombre to willingly get within range of old ephriam with a stick and string.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvMe1jsPMDA

Legendary bowhunter Chuck Adams took this monster on The Alaska Peninsula



Jack Brittingham took a new world record Brown Bear with a compound bow a few years ago.
It is of monsterous proportions.
The video is awesome.





Renowned bowhunter Archie Nesbitt took a ten footer on the Alaskan Peninsula with a bow and the video footage is incredible as well.




On my first grizzly hunt I saw the kind of destruction that a big grizz is capable of.
After swirling winds and crunchy snow ruined a stalk on a huge boar, we approached the den of the great bear.
There were trees as big around as my thigh that were snapped like twigs.
A young spruce was completley pushed out of the ground.
I left that site with a whole new respect for Ole Ephriam.
Those memories still send chills up my spine.
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#465508 - 11/05/08 01:15 PM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: Salmonella]
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Damn, that Youtube footage got my heart beating like I was the one shooting.

What people don't realize is how horribly wrong a bowhunt like that can go wrong if it does. Even with an outfitter backing you up with a high-powered riffle, you are putting your life on the line at bow range.

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#465556 - 11/05/08 03:29 PM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: seastrike]
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It's a frickin wooly mammoth!

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#465569 - 11/05/08 04:05 PM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: Sol]
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Originally Posted By: Sol
Here's my biggest, shot with a recurve I made at 10 to 15 yards on the ground.


Is that the infamous "Al-Can Highway" bear?
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#465580 - 11/05/08 04:39 PM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: The Moderator]
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Originally Posted By: parker
Originally Posted By: Sol
Here's my biggest, shot with a recurve I made at 10 to 15 yards on the ground.


Is that the infamous "Al-Can Highway" bear?



Brings to mind two words; gut and tourists. my baaaaad.
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#465584 - 11/05/08 04:55 PM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: The Moderator]
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Lol...no. I hunted that bear in NE Washington over bait for two weeks back when it was legal to do so and couldn't kill it. He would not come in during daylight. I started taking the bait back out with me at night to force him in while I was on stand and he still wouldn't come in. He would simply circle my stand a couple hundred yards out and chase off smaller bears. I got down one night to pick up the bait and he came in woofing at me. the wind was in my face and I assume he thought I was a smaller bear the snuck in for "his" goodies. At 10 to 15 yards I came up over the baiting vee of deadfall at full draw and he whirled sideways as my arrow sailed though both lungs and clipped his Aorta off his heart. He died and I walked ove and petted him in less that a minute after letting go of the arrow. That was a headrush. It happened so fast after so much work it did not seem real.

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#465585 - 11/05/08 04:56 PM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: ]
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Wow, that's a toad of a bear!

I've never seen anything that big before in the woods. We had one that tipped the scales at 480 back in the hound hunting days, big old bore wouldn't tree so my buddy shot him bayed up on the ground as he was tearing the crap out of the dogs.... Kind of a horrifying sound going in on a bayed up bear!

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#465672 - 11/06/08 01:08 AM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: Sol]
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Loc: Forks, WA
Originally Posted By: Sol
What people don't realize is how horribly wrong a bowhunt like that can go wrong if it does. Even with an outfitter backing you up with a high-powered riffle, you are putting your life on the line at bow range.


Even a rifle hunt...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZnsL7-UdGc&feature=related

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#465730 - 11/06/08 11:12 AM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: LoweDown]
Sol Offline
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Even black bear sows with cubs are bad juju. We drove around a corner on a logging road up in BC this fall and there was a yearling blackie standing on the shoulder so we pulled over. When it bailed off the road we got out to maybe get a picture before it disapeared into the alders. I immediately saw momma and the second yearling at the bottom of the embankment and they scrambled about 10 up an aspen in the middle of a thicket of 6-foot alder to get a better look at us. The aspen was probably 25 yards from the truck, and when momma came back down in a hurry I got the hell back in the truck pronto. It would have been nothing for her to come out of that patch of alsders at us in a flash. They can do allot of damage to a person fast.

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#466363 - 11/08/08 12:18 AM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: Sol]
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Registered: 03/17/05
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[/quote]

Are you suggesting the hyde squared at 8 feet? 2'x4'?

The referenced measurement was 7 feet 2 inches in length from head to tail on the ground. I think it's fair to say the bear stood *over* 7 feet tall on it's hind legs. We're talking about a rare black bear of grizzly sized proportions. [/quote]



That is either DRIPPING with sarcasm, or...........................................

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#466365 - 11/08/08 12:29 AM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: Sol]
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Originally Posted By: Sol
Lol...no. I hunted that bear in NE Washington over bait for two weeks back when it was legal to do so and couldn't kill it. He would not come in during daylight. I started taking the bait back out with me at night to force him in while I was on stand and he still wouldn't come in. He would simply circle my stand a couple hundred yards out and chase off smaller bears. I got down one night to pick up the bait and he came in woofing at me. the wind was in my face and I assume he thought I was a smaller bear the snuck in for "his" goodies. At 10 to 15 yards I came up over the baiting vee of deadfall at full draw and he whirled sideways as my arrow sailed though both lungs and clipped his Aorta off his heart. He died and I walked ove and petted him in less that a minute after letting go of the arrow. That was a headrush. It happened so fast after so much work it did not seem real.


Sweet !

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#466478 - 11/08/08 03:17 PM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: LoweDown]
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Registered: 11/07/99
Posts: 2691
Loc: Yelmish
Originally Posted By: LoweDown
Originally Posted By: Sol
What people don't realize is how horribly wrong a bowhunt like that can go wrong if it does. Even with an outfitter backing you up with a high-powered riffle, you are putting your life on the line at bow range.


Even a rifle hunt...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZnsL7-UdGc&feature=related
the comments on that site are proof that 13 year olds shouldn't be allowed to use the internet.

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#467282 - 11/12/08 02:21 PM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: Chum Man]
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Thats a Bad Ass Bear!!!!
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#469977 - 11/24/08 10:34 PM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: Sol]
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Sal, I have killed a couple bears here in Kitsap that would come close to 8 ft standing, One measures 8'6" nose to tail, 514lb field dressed (skinned) hanging at farmer georges meat locker, The other was 8'2" nose to tail and weighed 486lb at the locker. 22 1/8, 21 15/16 Skull size. toads and that bear in the picture is a toad for sure. About 14 yrs ago Dave killed one I and 8 others helped drag out that was bigger then mine... It was about 4 miles from where the bear in the article was killed. Both mine mounted on modified Mt. Griz mounts....

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#470451 - 11/27/08 12:39 AM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: Met'lheadMatt]
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I wish The Sun would have reported thyat blackie's skull width.......I saw a pic yesterday out on the Queets with a purported 23" skull width applause

I know pic.'s are deceiving, but the head on this one was friggin huge in comparison to the one in our backyard eek2
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#470520 - 11/27/08 12:49 PM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: NOFISH]
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Originally Posted By: NOFISH
I saw a pic yesterday out on the Queets with a purported 23" skull width


Impossible.
You must mean overall score...Length plus Width.

World Record Black Bear Skull



SCORE: 23 10/16
LOCATION: Sanpete County, UT
HUNTER: Picked Up
OWNER: Cabela's, Inc.
DATE: 1975

KEY MEASUREMENTS:
Greatest length of skull without lower jaw: 14 12/16
Greatest width of skull: 8 14/16

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#470611 - 11/28/08 01:20 AM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: Salmonella]
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Registered: 01/26/00
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Loc: Vancouver, WA
23" maybe you saw a watermelonheaded bigfoot.......

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#470623 - 11/28/08 11:41 AM Re: 8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County [Re: stlhdr1]
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I did say "purported" in my report! I'm not experienced enough in bear morphology to know when to call BS......all I know for sure is the bear in the photo I was shown looked much larger than in the photo of the kitsap bear.
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