My young lad's bear is at the taxidermist as I type. We dropped it off last Friday. The taxidermist did an early green score on it and it was as big as I figured (that being bigger than the 19 5/16" bear I got last fall up north). Early green score for John's bear is 20 5/16". As it is right now it will 3rd for muzzleloaders in FROW (Ontario's Big Game Record Book). We'll have to wait for the 60 day drying period for the official score. If it stay's over 20 inches it will make the Boone & Crockett and the Long Hunters books

All that by a young lad who didn't want to take a video camera with him. Who stole his daddy's stand and killed a big bugger of a bear with a flintlock rifle. Not too bad for his first time bear hunting and his first bear.



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