brown bear season closed, time to try for a blackie.

[slim_grim]

Holy cow! That is a giant paw. Really exciting stuff.  

[jrchambers]

steve I heard that they only needed one more sow as of Friday.

[Homey88]

Wow! What a great bear! Congrats!

[bruinman]

Awesome!! Congratulations.

[saltwatertom]

Junior! Congrats!!!
I just heard about this from a friend. I'll try to catch up with you when I get back. I'm leaving for Sandpoint and the  brown ones down there in the morning.

VERY NICE!!!              

[saltwatertom]

Junior! Congrats!!!
I just heard about this from a friend. I'll try to catch up with you when I get back. I'm leaving for Sandpoint and the  brown ones down there in the morning.

VERY NICE!!!              

[Ibow]

Congrats on an incredible accomplishment and thanks for taking us along with you!

[lt-m-grow]

Let me just offer what others have...awesome and thank you.

[jrchambers]

sorry to worry you Steve H I just heard from the horses mouth that 0 sows have been killed and the season is going on as planned.
 Thanks to every one for the compliments,  I know the bear is not a monster but I couldn't be more pleased.  The hide squared 8'2" the skull might break 26".  I did not get it on a scale but I know that 4 grown men could not get it off the ground, and the suspension on the sxs was all the way down, the wheels were rubbing the fender.

[IndianaBowman]

JR awesome bear and congrats!

I want one!  

[Greg Szalewski]

Great story on a great opportunity. Congrats!!

[huntnmuleys]

wow.  amazing. thanks for posting all of this.  beyond jealous right now

[Trumpkin the Dwarf]

[wooddamon1]

Very cool, congrats!        

[FerretWYO]

Originally posted by jrchambers:
sorry to worry you Steve H I just heard from the horses mouth that 0 sows have been killed and the season is going on as planned.
 Thanks to every one for the compliments,  I know the bear is not a monster but I couldn't be more pleased.  The hide squared 8'2" the skull might break 26".  I did not get it on a scale but I know that 4 grown men could not get it off the ground, and the suspension on the sxs was all the way down, the wheels were rubbing the fender.

That is a pretty dang big bear.

[SheltonCreeker]

Awesome thread! Thanks for taking us along. Congrats on your bear!

[OBXarcher]

Congrats ! Thanks for taking us with you.

[jrchambers]

Last night my friend and I put in one last ditch effort to find his bear he arrowed on Saturday night.  I brought my 2 dogs, one black lab and a bear fighting akita mix.  He showed us the blood trail and the last blood.  The dogs showed some interest in a trail to the left so I let the wild one go.  both dogs tore up the hill with us in chase.  we tried to keep them in sight when we caught up they were sniffing out a little clearing of scrub spruce.  I told my buddy to wait back abit so we didn't distract them from relocating the trail.  After a little time they didn't move on so Brian took two steps twards them and shrieked in pure joy.  The bear was right there. And it was huge.
 we quickly noticed that a rear quarter had been eaten.  I walked up and tried to lift its head when a full sheet of fur slipped from the hide.  There was plenty of joy and bummers at the same time.  We managed to get a few pics and make some phone calls to fish and game.  They said to bring what we can salvage, if the head is enough to determine sex then that would be enough.  I lost my lunch twice removing the melon on that beast.
It was only about a 8 foot to 8'6" body but had to have weighed around 800lbs and a rough hide on measure of the head came up with around 29" if we measured correct it could be one of the largest bow kills on the peninsula ever.



That bob lee is getting some real mojo on it.  I bought it off of here in 06.  Who knows what it has done before me but I put down my first bear deer and wolverine with it, now its really finding its groove.

[gringol]

Thats it! Im moving to alaska!

Looks like you guys are having a pretty great hunting year up there.  I hope your upcoming hunts are ad good as this one.  Thanks for posting.

[Keith Zimmerman]

Wow!  Those dogs are heros!  They deserve some recognition.  Whats their names??  Congrats to everybody!