A decent bear above


A large bear.
Both pics at the same distance. Should give you a good perspective.

One that would not be afraid of me, and try to eat me. That's big enough.    

Nurayb, Catskill mountains, where I work. Over the last few years, I have been spitting close to numerous(20+) bears. Sows, boars and everything in between.
This dude was strutting like he knew he was the baddest. His head would not even begin to fit through a steering wheel...ears looked like mosquito bites...he was, IMVHO, as big as the biggest bears pictured in this thread.

Strange thing is, the big one we are used to seeing has a bum hind leg. This new big guy was walking fine on all of em...albeit he was kinda waddling.

Im gonna be packing my digital camera now...not losing another chance at a picture waiting for my phone camera to initialize....

Keep that camera handy,pics would be really neat!

Average bear in Michigan goes 150 to 160. About a dozen years ago I had one that went 425#, 12 yards from me on Drummond Island but he got a nose full before I could get an arrow off. I know the weight because they killed him a couple of days latter in a camp down the road from us.

I've got my eye on this big fella walking about my area.  I think the arrowhead white patch on his chest is just the coolest thing, particularly for a Trad hunt.



I've got until roughly August 17 or so until the season opens.

Wow!!!! Mike that is the coolest bear I have ever seen.

You will have to mount him it this pose.

If you need help killing, op... I mean packing down your drive way just give me a call.

Now folks who know me know that I like Kingwouldbe like my Brother, but the trouble with "inviting" the King to help you pack a critter anywhere, even just down your driveway, is that he shows up carrying his bow.  And when the King has a bow in his hand the arrows start a flying and the animals starts to dying.  That nice Arrowhead Bear pictured above would be dead 10 minutes after the King walked off my front lawn.  He'd be puffin on that big stogie, smilin up a storm, snappin hero photos of the animal and in no time at all the entire Trad Gang would be luvin-up on him, sendin roses, promisin to name their first born after him....yada yada yada.

Thanks anyway Kingwouldbe but I'm thinkin that I'll just try packin my own critter out, even if just down the driveway.

Now thats brotherly love!  

Hey Mike,maybe i can help you with the skinning and packing,and i will leave my bow in the truck.    Thats a very nice bear i hope you get him          

Jim, if am so lucky as to stick that Arrowbear, you can bet that he's coming to your shop for the mount.    

Mike that  bear is a great looking animal,you dont see to many bears with a black coat in are locals,most of them are brown or rust color.Here you go out of state for a bear ,and you have them right in your back yard.  

Mike, I don't want your bear  :p   Sensi.... Delta has one he's going to give me, in exchange for letting him shoot with me  :eek:  lol

You know the WORLD RECORD Black Bear came from California.

23 3/16  
Location:    Mendocino County, California
Hunter:    Robert Shuttleworth
Year Taken:    1993

So let's rewrite the book this year    

Mike you need to bloody your arrow.. I mean his arrow (the bears arrow)

Well no more sightings on the biggun. Figures, I had a camera.

Two days off, then back to work. I will resume my quest for a picture after my to do list and days off are whittled down.

I think the new York State record is pushing 750lbs and the bow record is 626lbs.

A little googlin' produced this...

"According to the state Department of Environmental Conservation, the largest black bear felled by an archer was 11 years old and had a skull size of 22ê inches.

It was killed in 2006 in Deerpark.

The largest bear overall on record weighed about 750 pounds live and was 32 years old. It was killed in 1975 in Franklin County."

Im pretty sure I read about a new record in NY game and fish from Monitcello...

Im guessing, but I think the bear I saw could be close to a record size. Might just have to deflate him and see...

QuoteOriginally posted by Keuka:
I think the new York State record is pushing 750lbs and the bow record is 626lbs.

Hi Keuka, I don't think they have a record system for weight, but I could be wrong.

Hi Jamie, here you go my friend.

Pope & Young world record
http://www.pope-young.org/world-records_details.asp?wr=2

Boon & Crockett world record
http://www.boone-crockett.org/bgRecords/WorldRecordsDetail.asp?area=bgRecords&type=SKULLS

Moat bears look big..... but, big bears look scary.

Great info...tks.  As a So Cal bear hunter I will do my best.  That is a great looking bear Mike.  Go get him.

Residential Bear ?

Mike from the looks at that arrowhead bear, he looks like he is on someone's backyard, not a deep woods bear is he ?