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You see one like this you start to wonder if you have enough gun! Pictures from Kodiak.   | ||
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Tell more about the story. What do you know about the Bear? Very nice Bear, kinda goes without saying doesn't it  I've dreamed of getting a Bear like that since I was a young boy, my hat is off to these two guys, great Bear. | |||
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place, gun, caliber, circunstances, $$$ "Every ignored reallity prepares its revenge!" | |||
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Taken with guide Jake Jefferson of Black River Hunting. Guestimated weight of 1700 pounds, skull - 27.75. Story is posted on some Alaskan hunting forum, I'll see if I can find it. | |||
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What a HAWG! How much gun did you use? What load and bullet? BIG FREAKIN BEAR! What did it square, 9-10'? *we band of 45-70ers* Whiskey for my men & beer for my horses!  Malon Labe! | |||
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The bear is made to look twice as big by putting a tree between bear and hunter - give me a break !  Lets have honest photos ,I'm tired of this nonsense. A proper photo would tellyou the real size of the bear. | |||
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Handsome bear !!! Check www.outdoorsdirectory.com for a story on this bear. KMule Hear and forget. See and remember. Do and understand. | |||
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If someone will send me an email I have a pic of a very nice Kodiak Brownie that a buddy from Homer got last fall. I'm not computer smart enough to post it here. He used a .30 Lazzeroni at 40 feet away. I was deer hunting with him when he got it. NRA Life ASSRA Life DRSS Today's Quote: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with free monthly minutes, food stamps, section 8 housing, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime. | |||
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You can judge a bears size from a picture?   | |||
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Posting these for Mike Brooks    Nice Bear Mike | |||
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well I don't about the games with the picture but a 27.75 skull is huge Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Thank you again for posting these for me. I wasn't the shooter of this brownie. The guy holding the head is the lucky hunter. He was shooting a 7.62 Lazzeroni Warbird IIRC. He started shooting when it wandered out of an alder patch about 40 feet away! 3 shots in the boiler room. #4 was a load he hadn't tried, some brass looking slug that he hadn't checked to see if it would chamber. It was a schosh too long and the bolt wouldn't drop down. He then grabbed the .458 from another guy and one more finished it. After each shot the bear would try to bite the point of impact. The hide was so heavy that he couldn't carry it out him self so we cut it in 2 pieces to pack it out. NRA Life ASSRA Life DRSS Today's Quote: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with free monthly minutes, food stamps, section 8 housing, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime. | |||
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No games with the tape measure.. It is a big bear. I took those pics, The first one is a picture of the only pic we had of that shot. Not the best quality but there isn't any games with depth perception. NRA Life ASSRA Life DRSS Today's Quote: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with free monthly minutes, food stamps, section 8 housing, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime. | |||
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Very nice Bear!!  | |||
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That young man earned that bear just by packing the hide out several miles to the boat. NRA Life ASSRA Life DRSS Today's Quote: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with free monthly minutes, food stamps, section 8 housing, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime. | |||
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Congrats to you all; what a fine bear/ Chaz | |||
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I'm glad to see there are still a few pessimists around to carry the load for Buliwyf. Monster bear, it's huge, no B.S. "Take your kid hunting, so you don't have to go hunting for your kid." Ted Nugent | |||
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....I like pics of people sitting on their bear ....,., Pretty hard to disguise their size that way ..but these are great pics ., And that is a Monster bear .....,.,., Glad the guy with the 458 was close at hand ..  .,.They both are really , really big bears ..... ... .,,.If it can,t be grown , its gotta be mined .... | |||
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Very nice brownie, i hope to get one half that size one day,  A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.” ― Theodore Roosevelt | |||
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Guys, Both those bears are "Toads". I don't care if they did any trick stuff to make them look larger or not both are just very big bears. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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That's just a big bear, simple as that. Notice where he was shot...in the alders. Nasty stuff and quite dangerous at times. _______________________________  | |||
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That was a double meat with extra cheese. Yipes, what a bear!!!! | |||
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I'm the guide that guided the hunter to that bear and its as big as it looked, i'm gonna try to add one more pic here if i do it right, that'll show a different angle for those who think we stacked the pics to look big, if you look you'll see the clients hand on the bears hip.  | |||
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Don't let someone who has never hunted a brown bear, let alone probably seen one in the wild, determine if your pictures of this massive bruin are staged. That's a huge bear. | |||
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I bet you were plumb pooped packin that hide out  ......My hats off to ya .. ........What was the shootin done with ????.If it can,t be grown , its gotta be mined .... | |||
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Speechless  Thanks for sharing your photos."Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Sir Winston Churchill | |||
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he was shot with a 300 ultra at 178 yards. the shipping weigh of the hide was 125lbs and that was after a week under the salt, so we figure it was close to 150, maybe a little more. We shot it late in the day, hiked back in the enext day to do the fleshing, spent three hours ffleshing it down as best i could, even trimmed the eye lids to save on weight!! lol it wasn't a bad hike out, only one ravine to climb out of and it was well worth it, i'd have cried to cut a bear like that in half, rather it take me two days to get it out than cut it. thanks for the support guys, neat to find a new forum with hunters....hats off to ya. | |||
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That's a very nice bear !! Thanks for sharing ------------------------------------------  Μολὼν λάβε Duc, sequere, aut de via decede. | |||
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Wow, Very nice bear!!! The pic with the bears head against the guys chest (hand/paw also) shows how big this bear is. p.s. that is not a tree, more like a sapling. I can't see anyone dragging that bear around to make it larger. Ha ha | |||
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It was an awesome bear! For a little different perspective, our local paper, the Anchorage Daily Pravda (News) published an article about the hunt. Ninety percent of the blogs on the article were about how bad it was that the bear was killed at all, killed while waking up, not hunted for food etc....... If you can go online and read them it will give you a good idea of how Alaska has changed over the last three decades, and it ain't good! Really a shame, Greg | |||
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I know 1st hand what a job is at hand getting a bruin like that and congrat's to both! Kodiak isn't as user friendly as it looks and as you can see alders have to be cut just for pics not to forget the skinning session at hand. NICE WORK FELLOWS I tend to use more than enough gun | |||
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Beautiful pictures! YEEK''S them bear's are the size of a vw-bug with claw's and teath 2 match. makes me feel sorry for the Moose in the area! faked pictures? get your eyes checked bud! thats the real Mcoy!!! gota say thats one eating machine and you wouldn''t catch me packing a sub- 338 caliber period. congrats to all the hunter involved. if your paper is anti-hunting don't buy it ! buy TP paper instead  great post regards | |||
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Thanks Guys, I always felt that a really big Kodiak Brown Bear is the ultimate Big-Game trophy, and I think you both prove my point. Well Done! | |||
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