you got me, think it was actually 289 lbs as i said earlier, we don't weight the bears so i was guessing by how heavy he was as we were moving him around, he was very close to that i would say, my point was more, he was a bigger bear than the first pic, sometimes the angle of the bear, the way it's headis turned in a pic, makes it tough to be sure, here he is on the ground, almost a 20" skull