Bears
03-10-2003, 05:30 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 1,665
RE: Bears
I presume you are interested in going after blackies? It' s hard to judge with small things like looking for small ears or ears far apart on the bears head if you don' t have much to judge by. I shot the first bear I saw on my first trip out, and I thought he was a monster! He turned out at 6' square and barely made the P&Y minimum, but from different angles it looks like he has large ears (sign of a small bear) and at other angles it looks like his ears are small. On the same account it looks at some angles like his ears are close together, while at other angles they appear to be far apart.
We did see some monster bears on our hunt, a couple easily over 7 feet. You will know a big bear when you see one, that is for certain. Here' s a couple different angles of my spring 2002 bear. If I saw a bear this size again, I wouldn' t hesitate to take him.
We did see some monster bears on our hunt, a couple easily over 7 feet. You will know a big bear when you see one, that is for certain. Here' s a couple different angles of my spring 2002 bear. If I saw a bear this size again, I wouldn' t hesitate to take him.
03-10-2003, 09:49 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 1,665
RE: Bears
Here is a picture of the second bear we took on that trip. He squared out at 6' also, but his skull was about 1/2" smaller than my bear. Same area, but very different characteristics. This one had long arms, mine had short arms.
03-14-2003, 03:21 PM
#6
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Dunkirk MD USA
Posts: 283
RE: Bears
i' ve never hunted black bear but have seen several in the wild while elk hunting. this year i noticed several signs black bears are on my place, the most obvious was several piles of bear crap along the main game trail i was hunting, it' s like black paste with berries in it. the second thing i noticed is several aspen trees with scratch marks about 4-6 foot high. i also noticed hair in several pine trees that were close together, guess he was rubbing his back or something. anyway i knew there were bears in the area and on the last day of the hunt had a big old black bear walk down the trail at about 50 yards. we stayed still and he didn' t even see us. was thinking about getting a tag next year.
