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Post by soiltester on Sept 2, 2015 11:59:18 GMT -6
 After a straight 12 hr & 800 mile trip to Michigan, a short quick nights sleep, the 4 of us headed another 28 hrs & 1500+ miles, stopping short of the boarder for a quick night and crossed Sun at 8.a.m. and on to our Thompson destination. I hunted with my buddies 300 win mag and the others used bows. Hunted Mon morn till noon and headed back out by 4pm. & 8:45 this brute came in just before shootin hrs. ended and I lucked out on a lung shot and not a liver as I suspected, when he moved as I squeezed the shot off. My one buddy is my taxidermist and green scored his scull at 20", whatever that means & the skin measured 7'7" from nose to tail. We were in the middle of no where and skinned & quartered it on the spot and the guides back packed the quarters & put the hide on a pole and the 2 carried it out seperately, as it probably weighed over 150# with all the fat!!! Not to mention the 6" plus on the body after being skinned. They thought the bear weighed around 500# +/- and my taxidermist is going to measure the hide for a closer body weight, when he prepares the skin for a rug. The others passed on shootable bears as they were looking for "big foot", so my taxidermist ended taking a nice bear for a stuido mount in his shop. The hunt ended Sat. night and we headed out at 6:30am on Sun and I was in my drive at 7:20am on Tue., so I'm still on lag time . I believe this trip re-affirmed that I'm gonna stick with feathered birds when huntin'  I can't seem to even adust my pic size from a large e-mail, which this is. . |
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Post by duke0002 on Sept 2, 2015 16:04:20 GMT -6
Congrats, Charlie! What a bruising bruin. When will the rug be done?
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Post by soiltester on Sept 3, 2015 6:21:18 GMT -6
Cal said he'd probably have the rug done by May when I go up turkey hunting. It was all Guide Blaine & I could do to get the front of the bear upright and we put the log under it's front to help lift it. That was the only way I could get it's head up for a camera shot .. nothin' but dead weight. Blaine said around 13 yrs and hard to tell, but it's reproductive part(I'm going to boil it up and have it along side the skull) was twice the size of one of the guys big bears from 2 yrs ago and his sack was empty and his marbles had gone back inside from not breeding anymore. Had claw/tooth marks on it's hide from a run in wtth probably a sow w/cubs.
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Post by bustedspur on Sept 3, 2015 16:47:02 GMT -6
Congrats on a dandy bear!
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Post by woodcock on Sept 3, 2015 17:27:42 GMT -6
Good Stuff!
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Post by soiltester on Sept 4, 2015 5:35:05 GMT -6
Update: Talked w/Cal last night & he said he scraped 90# of fat off of the hide  Instead of it getting longer, like I accused him of doing for the $ on the rug, he say's now, it's just about as wide as it is long  I told him to measure the width so we could get a better idea of weight, but I know it's 500+ #'s at least!! |
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Post by Admin on Sept 4, 2015 10:39:26 GMT -6
Congrats!!
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Post by woodcock on Sept 4, 2015 19:06:42 GMT -6
Update: Talked w/Cal last night & he said he scraped 90# of fat off of the hide Instead of it getting longer, like I accused him of doing for the $ on the rug, he say's now, it's just about as wide as it is long I told him to measure the width so we could get a better idea of weight, but I know it's 500+ #'s at least!! More good News! |
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Post by soiltester on Sept 6, 2015 5:12:27 GMT -6
Calvin my taxidermist got back to me with a 57" chest measurment and is 91" long.
1 chart I looked at online is at 520# and another at 570#, so it's in there somewhere??
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Post by woodcock on Sept 6, 2015 6:47:19 GMT -6
Congrats again !
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Post by duke0002 on Sept 9, 2015 9:42:58 GMT -6
It's getting better and better! Congrats!
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After a straight 12 hr & 800 mile trip to Michigan, a short quick nights sleep, the 4 of us headed another 28 hrs & 1500+ miles, stopping short of the boarder for a quick night and crossed Sun at 8.a.m. and on to our Thompson destination.
Instead of it getting longer, like I accused him of doing for the $ on the rug, he say's now, it's just about as wide as it is long 
I told him to measure the width so we could get a better idea of weight, but I know it's 500+ #'s at least!! 
