8-Foot Black Bear killed in Kitsap County

WOW! Killed less than 8 miles from our office.

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/nov/01/kitsap-hunter-bags-a-bear-of-a-story/

Wow, that thing looks huge.

I have a buddy who likes to hunt bears, and he drives from McCleary to Kitsap Co to hunt them. He tells me it is great bear country, and the best bear hunting he has found in WA state, is in the Kitsap Co. area.

"I'd prefer that the bear in Central Kitsap be trapped and relocated to the Olympic peninsula. What fish and game needs to do is the "adopt a bear program" that has been used else where in the country. Fish and game figures how much it will cost to trap a bear, and we non-hunting "dummes" contribute the money requirements."

The blog below the article is priceless.......I say we keep the bears and relocate these non-hunting dummies to the Peninsula

That is some funny shait Nofish. Do they realize the OP has plenty already. And I have a far better place to relocate that guy.......California.

I work with uncle. saw those photos a couple of weeks ago and almost pissed myself. He has other photos that make the look even bigger.

Uncle? I know, or used to know a Darrel Durbin out in Crosby. He HAS to be related.

Small world.

Thats one big blackie for the N.W

p.s just saw Stams Neked buck. LMAO !!!

The uncles name is Dan Durbin. That freaking bear was absolutely huge

Very humble guy in the interview. "you don't see a bear like that in Kitsap County very often".
Shoot you don't see a bear like that anyplace very often...if ever. Thanks for putting that on here Solman. That was cool to see.

"Dennis Durbin sits on the back of the 570-pound, 8-foot tall, black bear he shot Oct. 12 between Seabeck and Silverdale. Dwarfed by the bear, Durbin is 6-feet, 7 inches tall and over 300 pounds"

A trophy black bear by anyone's measure, but the caption is a little deceiving.

No black bear ever shot "Stands Eight feet Tall".

Period.

I think the writer got the squared measurement confused.

he shot the bear about 2 miles from my house. hard to believe there was a bear out in the woods around here of that size. makes you wonder if there are anymore that size or maybe bigger ? he also has a picture of the paw next to his head. you would not believe the size of the paws.

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.

They get that big in places. We got one that measured 7 feet 3inches on prince of whales about 4 years ago. Big SOB but I have no idea on the weight. We even found bigger tracks on the river bank that dwarfed his. Now that bear had to be something out of the ordinary(I know they have no brownies on POW but it would have had to have been a world record if it was a black)
I think the writer doesn't realize how they are measured when he stated "over eight feet".....Still amazing for one mile away from my house.

crazy to think a bear that big was living pretty close to me....
hellovabigassbear, very nice

The caption said [ Quote] "8 feet tall"

I once took a black bear that squared seven foot five, he stood about six feet.

My Boone & Crockett , 10 foot 1in square Kodiak Brown Bear stands eight feet from the pads on his hind feet to the tops of his ears.

Never in history has there been a ten foot black bear killed that would essentially stand eight feet tall.

Hides are squared by a nose to tail measurement added to a clawtip tto clawtip measurement.
Those two numbers added together then divided by 2.

Hides can be manipulated, so Boone & crockett records skull sizes, (length + width).

Taking NOTHING away from the Kitsap bear, it is a toad for sure, but as you we all know these internet things have a way of running out of control.

Just keepin it real.

Squared by addition and then subtraction? Must be California math. Up here we come up with squared numbers by multiplication...lol

Thanks Sal, for keeping it real.

I am not sure where you live, but while the size of this animal is large. I believe that those of us that live in the area are equally supprised at where the animal was taken.

Its not exactly an area that I would think of as the "wild".

I doubt he even knows what a squared measurement is.

No Timmy, That would be Alaskan math.

http://www.larryrivers.com/brownbearsize.htm

Respectfully spoken however, Though I can't lick your boots when it comes to big steelhead, I do kinda know a lil sumthin bout bears.

lol...you're a good sport, Sal.

Nice bears. When I kill "my" Grizzly with an arrow I'll send you a picture. I've only killed black bears to date. Here's my biggest, shot with a recurve I made at 10 to 15 yards on the ground.

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.

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.

It's a frickin wooly mammoth!

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

Brings to mind two words; gut and tourists. my baaaaad.

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.

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!

Keith

Even a rifle hunt...

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

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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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...........................................

Sweet !

the comments on that site are proof that 13 year olds shouldn't be allowed to use the internet.

Thats a Bad Ass Bear!!!!

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....

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

I know pic.'s are deceiving, but the head on this one was friggin huge in comparison to the one in our backyard

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

23" maybe you saw a watermelonheaded bigfoot.......

Keith

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.