I don't think I'm buying the 1200lb bear but Pa does have some of the biggest black bear in the world. People who don't live here just laugh and say that we guess at the weights and exagerate but that's pretty tough to do when you have a check station. I know the last one I took weighed 356 gutted and 415 live, scored 20 11/16 but was only 3 1/2 years old. He still had a lot of growing to do and could have easily been an 800 lb boar in a few years. I think the guides from new brunswick are just jealous that they can't get their bear to grow as big as we can down here.