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About the sow with cubs...cubs can and do stay with mom for 2 years. Nothing wrong with shooting a sow with 1.5 yr old cubs that weigh 80-90 lbs if you so choose.
I always thought I would go shoot one bear and be done with it. Nope...I love it and hope to go again soon! |
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The world record weight for an American black bear is 880 pounds. This was the recorded weight of a 10.75 year-old male bear shot in North Carolina in November 1998.
Theres the Proof to back up GMMAT ORIGINAL: GMMAT It is illegal to bait bears in NC.....and the largest black bear ever taken by a hunter was taken from this state. IMO.....there's a valid reason why people shoot them over bait;) |
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ORIGINAL: wis_bow_huntr The world record weight for an American black bear is 880 pounds. This was the recorded weight of a 10.75 year-old male bear shot in North Carolina in November 1998. Theres the Proof to back up GMMAT ORIGINAL: GMMAT It is illegal to bait bears in NC.....and the largest black bear ever taken by a hunter was taken from this state. IMO.....there's a valid reason why people shoot them over bait;) |
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how big was his skull? Why in the world would you come up with a system of measuring a skull to determine a bear's trophy potential (there may be a good answer....but I've never heard it)? When guys mention the bear they killed....what do 99% of them say? Weight. I don't have a bear in this fight.....but NC does......and its the largest. I suppose we could come up with a method of scoring Bucks on the size of their throat patches, too......but a lot of people who shot 'em with big antlers wouldn't like it! |
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ORIGINAL: GMMAT how big was his skull? Why in the world would you come up with a system of measuring a skull to determine a bear's trophy potential (there may be a good answer....but I've never heard it)? When guys mention the bear they killed....what do 99% of them say? Weight. I don't have a bear in this fight.....but NC does......and its the largest. I suppose we could come up with a method of scoring Bucks on the size of their throat patches, too......but a lot of people who shot 'em with big antlers wouldn't like it! |
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I usually see a bear every archery season, this past season was the first one in more years than I can remember that I haven't see one. If you read my journals, the year previous I called on to the base of my tree and took pictures of it while I was filming for a friend. He was in awe of it.
Guys who have shot in my back yard can see my archery target that is tore up/eat'n by a bear I estimated to be around 600 lbs. I woke up to hear him munching on my 3D deer not 15 yards from my bedroom window. I walked down on the porch to watch him in the full moon and he walked by me on the porch a mere 10 feet without seeing me. I figured he was headed for the garbage so I spoke up, what I didn't know was there was already a bear in my garbage, they both bolted. Big male with his sow. |
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ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer I usually see a bear every archery season, this past season was the first one in more years than I can remember that I haven't see one. If you read my journals, the year previous I called on to the base of my tree and took pictures of it while I was filming for a friend. He was in awe of it. Guys who have shot in my back yard can see my archery target that is tore up/eat'n by a bear I estimated to be around 600 lbs. I woke up to hear him munching on my 3D deer not 15 yards from my bedroom window. I walked down on the porch to watch him in the full moon and he walked by me on the porch a mere 10 feet without seeing me. I figured he was headed for the garbage so I spoke up, what I didn't know was there was already a bear in my garbage, they both bolted. Big male with his sow. |
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Never in PA. I went to Quebec to take the only bear I've take so far. PA only offers a 3 day season the Mon-Wed before Thanksgiving. I've never had that week off work. There has been an archery season but the odds are I will never arrow a bear in PA.
Here's my Quebec bruin.   |
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Yeah, Rob's right. The PA bear season couldn't possibly come at a more inconvenient time for the Average Joe. Mon-Wed before Thanksgiving, which happens to be the opening 3 days of WV and MDdeer seasons, and primetime bowhunting across the western border in Ohio.
Most guys who actually have jobs and are trying to juggle vacation time - are constructively excluded from participating in the PA bear season.It's a totalcircus anyway, so it's really no big loss. |
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