200-225 is my guess. I'd like to know how high your logpile is but still, he's a little tall and linky so he's on the young side. We have a ton that size hear in esstern NC. My first bear was that size and proved to be great eating.

The bear looks to be quite long so I am guessing him to be around 250lbs right now. I can not see a direct shot of his head how ever to get a better understanding. Also not real sure on how high the wood is stacked right now.

I say it is a young bear especially since the pic came from Wi which has some real nice bear. All the big ones I have seen have a gut that hangs down close to the ground. Looking at the leaves and the piled logs makes me think the tree is about 1 foot across and that would make the bear a year old animal at about 100 pounds. I would be really surprised if it went over 125.

You've got to be kidding? 100lbs?????

The tallest logs are standing at about 36" The tree in the background is about 18"

We have some decent bears up here as well. Here is a pic of a sow with a couple of 2 year old cubs. The cubs are in the 80 - 90lb range.. So the bear in question would be well over the 100lb mark.

The bear looks very thin to me and since the picture was just taken it makes me think it is a fairly young bear. Bears this time of year are putting on the body fat to prepare for winter. It is always hard to judge them unless there is something in the frame that is a known size. Most large or mid sized bears I see here in Vermont have low hanging bellies and small looking ears as compared to the head. From the pictures I could see on this post the only real good look I got was the high belly. I tried to gage the tree size by the leaves and growth all around it since it was taken in a northern climate similar to here. I can believe the tree is 18" but my initial guess was 12" but that was thinking the logs were smaller than what the poster says. Around here lots of bears are taken at less than 150 pounds and are not cubs but rather 1 1/2 year old bears. My figures were assuming the bear was in that age class. Most young bears look lean and long since the belly is so high. Judging them in the woods is always tough and my experience with it is they always look bigger than they are. If you are hunting from a stand with bait like they do in some states then you generally get to see several with the bait barrel there so you have something to judge by. Here we have to hunt them like deer with no baiting so they often are moving and you have to decide pretty quickly whether they are shooters or not. I always like to see sows with cubs and that gives you an idea of how large they are. Not that I would shoot a sow with cubs but they are a privilege to watch. One of nature's finest creations. A 250 pound bear (dressed weight) here in Vermont would be a really nice bear. They get a couple of hundred pounds heavier here but that isn’t the norm. I would say most are in the 100 to 200 pound range and are 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 years old.

I agree with you that bears are starting to pack on the wieght right now for the long winter a head of them. What I am looking at is in the first pic. The size of his front legs and the thickness showing in his neck tells me this is a pretty good size bear. It also gives me the idea of it being a boar and giving an impression of what looks to be a long bear. There is no way to know for sure what wieght he would bring in I am still guessing with my original idea of the 250lb range. He looks to be a pretty decent bear to me. We also have some pretty decent bear up here with our state record being the 680lbs.. However the same is said for up here. The average bear is in the 200 to 250lb. range. It is not unheard of a black bear being shot in the 400 to 500lb range here either. I have seen a large boar up here chasing after deer during the October archery season that never had the large belly either. I told a bear hunter that ran dogs and he wouldn't touch it. He stated he lost 2 dogs to it a few days before. He said it wouldn't tree for them and attacked the dogs. That bear also was hanging around in some acorns getting ready for winter. He wouldn't come to the baits but rather walk around just out of sight snapping his jaws. A trapper was throwing out carcasses near by and the bear hit them every night. No one ever got a shot at him and though I am not sure, most likely he is still hanging around in that area.

I still don't see it. If I accept the tree is 18" and using the size on my screen and then transferring it to the bear I come up with about 22 inches from top of back to belly. I have seen a ton of living and dead bears and one that size would be a small bear IMO.

125lbs. just a young guy