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Offline criveraville

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Nose to tail 60 inch black bear. How big is that. Pics added
« on: February 08, 2012, 03:05:42 am »
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.

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 Cipriano
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Re: Nose to tail 60 inch black bear. How big is that.
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2012, 10:06:23 am »
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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Re: Nose to tail 60 inch black bear. How big is that.
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2012, 12:37:15 am »
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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Re: Nose to tail 60 inch black bear. How big is that.
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2012, 01:29:04 am »
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.

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Re: Nose to tail 60 inch black bear. How big is that.
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2012, 02:25:22 pm »
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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Re: Nose to tail 60 inch black bear. How big is that.
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2012, 05:17:05 pm »
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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Re: Nose to tail 60 inch black bear. How big is that.
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2012, 06:34:39 pm »
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Re: Nose to tail 60 inch black bear. How big is that.
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2012, 06:35:50 pm »
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. 

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« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2012, 06:51:47 pm »
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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« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2012, 10:52:09 pm »
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.
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