Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: criveraville on February 08, 2012, 03:05:42 am
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A black bear I harvested back when I was a young man measured 60 inches nose to tail. How big is that? Average? Just curious.
Thanks,
Cipriano
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It depends on where your from. We have some mega blackies up here because of the fall mast and berries. I shot a 7 foot boar that weighed 300#. Thats just a decent bear for us. My guess is you bear weighed about 150# hanging.
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60" black bear? Lemme see, that would be...carry the 4, divide by...and then calculating...about 5 ft.
Heck, that's only five feet bigger than any I have shot! >:D
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Pearly it was in Northern California up near Mt Shasta. Just a ways from McCloud up Stouts Meadow Rd back in 91.
JW it was the ultimate experience. With a bow I received as a gift from my uncle for graduating high school. It was a Hoyt Raider. I still have that bow.
Cipriano
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Awesome deal there Cip! What a way to get a bear, the size is meaningless in this story. I have a few 700# blackie pics stashed. One was from upper NY state last fall.
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Of all the big game to hunt with a bow, black bear on the ground with no bait is at the very top of the list.
But any bear, any way, with a bow is pure bragging rights trophy material.
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pics
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pics. I am not in the pics because I was alone. I wrote a poem a bout the experience and sent it to Ed for consideration on being published in PA mag.
Cipriano
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That's an awesome bear Cipriano. And in my opinion, any bear killed with a bow is an amazing accomplishment, no matter what the size is.
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Kinda like the rule "It don't take much osage to make a bow", the strength and ferocity of one of these bears defending themselves is amazing....don't take much bear to kill a man. I don't care who's bow you are carrying, once you are in range of this animal you are in danger. Wow, thanks for sharing, friend.