Ok, I know nothing!!!
03-05-2008 | 09:23 PM
#31
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From: StL, MO
RE: Ok, I know nothing!!!
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!
I always thought I would go shoot one bear and be done with it. Nope...I love it and hope to go again soon!
03-06-2008 | 05:17 AM
#32
Giant Nontypical
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From: Nekoosa Wi USA
RE: Ok, I know nothing!!!
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
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
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
03-06-2008 | 09:37 AM
#33
Nontypical Buck
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From: Northern Idaho's Panhandle
RE: Ok, I know nothing!!!
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
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
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
03-06-2008 | 09:47 AM
#34
Dominant Buck
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RE: Ok, I know nothing!!!
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!
03-06-2008 | 09:51 AM
#35
Giant Nontypical
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From: PA
RE: Ok, I know nothing!!!
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Don't know.
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!
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!
03-06-2008 | 09:58 AM
#36
Boone & Crockett
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From: Hughesville, PA USA
RE: Ok, I know nothing!!!
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.
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.
03-06-2008 | 10:05 AM
#37
Giant Nontypical
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From: Heaven is my home, temporarily residing in WNY :)
RE: Ok, I know nothing!!!
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.
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.
03-06-2008 | 10:09 AM
#38
Boone & Crockett
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From: Hughesville, PA USA
RE: Ok, I know nothing!!!
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.
Here's my Quebec bruin.
03-06-2008 | 10:21 AM
#39
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RE: Ok, I know nothing!!!
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.
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.
