Got Me a Bear!!

[G-Man]

Dec checked it today, weight 400lbs, and estimate age of 5yr plus, have to wait almost a year for exact age from tooth analyisis..

[mac]

Great bear, gonna be a nice rug !

[nyantler]

400lbs.. thats a Dandy! way to go!

[BizCT]

Awesome Bear man, congrats! I would love to get a bear in NY!

[Hunter1]

Great story Congrats you earned it!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lawdwaz]

Great job, G.

Seems like a 400lb bear would be older than 5 years old but only obviously WTF do I know.......!!

Looking forward to the follow up report.

[Dom]

That sure is a great big blackbear.congrats to you.

[WesternNY]

Congrats.. that is awesome!

[jjb4900]

must have been a job getting that thing out of the woods, how'd you do it?

[132 eight pointer]

I wouldn't mess with 400 lbs. of unhappy anything.Your one crazy son of a gun G-man ! Congratulations.

[ryanrobb52]

That is a GIANT!

[HuntOrBeHunted]

My little cuz seen this picture and said...BEAR???. Lol it was great!!!

Mind you he's 6. I think he wanted to go grab his bow and sticky darts haha...

[GreeneHunter]

Congrats !

[G-Man]

Well got him out with 4 neighbors/friends, put him on a travois and dragged it 250 yards to nearest logging road where i could get to with one of my tractors. that 250 yards took 2 hrs with 5 men pushing pulling, the oldest helper was 76, the youngest was 32. was a lot of work but everyone had fun and was excited. Oh got my patch from dec as well! here is one of his "meat hooks" as well

[shooter]

Awesome congrats!!! Nice bear and great story!!

[the blur]

Your 1st shot was at 5 feet !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lawdwaz]

Hey G, what are you going to do with the skull, do it yourself or send it out?

That dude (maybe I missed it, male or female?) must have a great melon!!

Think bugs..............<grin>

Edited November 28, 2012 by Lawdwaz

[G-Man]

It is a big boar, got it to taxidermist last night, going with a full mount with base as he gave me a great deal and payment plan , and the strong opinions of about 10 friends who wisely said well you might get another bear but not 400lbs (408lbs too be exact). the lower jaw is destroyed, i'll do the skull myself, taxidermist did some rough measurments and it looks like it will end up between 19 1/2 and 20 inches when cleaned..

[G-Man]

Yes, 5 foot. The first shot went down thru the neck and into the left front leg to the elbow, broke neural spine of 2 vertebra, half an in to the right it would of broke its neck and died right there coming out of the top. Instead i will have nightmares the rest of my life....

[Lawdwaz]

It is a big boar, got it to taxidermist last night, going with a full mount with base as he gave me a great deal and payment plan , and the strong opinions of about 10 friends who wisely said well you might get another bear but not 400lbs (408lbs too be exact). the lower jaw is destroyed, i'll do the skull myself, taxidermist did some rough measurments and it looks like it will end up between 19 1/2 and 20 inches when cleaned..

Good deal on the lifesize mount. A rug is cool but difficult to display well. 408lbs is awesome.

Well done.

[hunter]

Congrats GMan. Awesome bear.

[suffolk1921a]

Congrats, G-Man! Great story, great bear. Curious to know what ammo you were using in that .45-70. Hand loaded, factory? Bullet weight, grains of powder? A friend of mine has a .45-70 and after that story he is thinking of a larger capacity mag. tube. I guess you almost ran out after 3 shots!

[G-Man]

handloads, .454 casull bullet at 350 grain (its a compressed load) meant for single shot rifles, but new marlins (not sure about remlins) can handel the pressure according to the tech i talked to. guni have is about 10 years old now.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

They are like dragging a big bag of jello. nothing easy to grab ahold of.

[G-Man]

Hey! i just read nys record book is only18in for gun, my skull is at least 19.5 at least guess i'll make the book!