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ursus21
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posted May 16, 2011 09:15 AM

I know some of you are hard-core and only hunt coyotes or smaller predators such as bobcat and fox. I have no problem with that. However I've also seen a few of you post some bigger critters as well (like Cal's mega antelope buck!) While coyote hunting takes up most of my hunting time I do manage to get a few other animals now and then. I thought I'd post a few in hopes that I can get some of you to post a few of your bigger than coyote critters as well. I love seeing hunting photos and hope a few of you will be brave enough to share. [Big Grin]

Here is a pretty decent black bear I was lucky enough to kill in Alaska.

This is my favorite antelope buck (not my biggest, but my favorite) killed right here in good old Montana.

Got this muley down in Colorado. I've only hunted Colorado once and was super lucky to get this buck in the last minute of the last day I could hunt. He's no record book buck, but I was plenty happy with him.

I can honestly say that I am not much of an elk hunter. I've only killed a couple and I do not spend much time chasing them around the mountains. Heck, they ain't much fun once they hit the ground. Anyway this is the best bull I have ever killed. Got this one in Southwest Montana.

What would a thread like this be without at least one whitetail buck? Man, this was a brutally cold hunt. If I remember right the standing temp was -20. I don't recall what it was with the wind chill. Doesn't matter it was friggen cold!

Okay I got it started let's see what you boys have tipped over through the years.

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Leonard
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posted May 16, 2011 09:38 AM

That whitetail looks like the best of the bunch!

Thanks for sharing.

gh/lb

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Possumal
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posted May 16, 2011 09:46 AM

Ursus21, thanks for sharing. All look good to this old possum.

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ursus21
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posted May 16, 2011 09:50 AM

Thanks Leonard. The whitetail was under the coldest conditions of the bunch anyway. The elk was the toughest to get out. Backpacked him out. Like I said they are no fun once they are on the ground.

Here is a photo of the absolutely most brutal conditions I've ever hunted under. According to the radio announcer on our way out it was -64 with the wind chill. It was STUPID COLD, blowing snow, and very limited visibility. T'was a lot of suffering for a few does. I promised myself after this doe hunt that I would never subject myself to such cold conditions again. I have no desire to hunt in colder temperatures EVER!

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TundraWookie
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posted May 16, 2011 10:36 AM

Awesome photos Troy. That's a pig of a black bear. Anytime you want to come up and help me yard out a clydesdale....I mean moose, let me know. You're 100% right on the fun ending after the animal is down with the big critters.

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the bearhunter
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posted May 16, 2011 10:38 AM

you've taken some dandy critters!! looks like a great bear

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Leonard
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posted May 16, 2011 10:53 AM

I'm looking at the barrel accompanying the bear photo. Either the forearm is extra short, or that is an extremely looong barrel. I also notice it's just about the only gun displayed, has to be intentional?

gh/lb

edit: coldest hunt I ever endured was in extreme northwest Colorado. OMG! The condensate was so much it soaked everything in the tent. Everything!

Funny story. You always hear about cowboy dinners consisting of a plate of beans, right? So, we brought along a bag of pinto beans and soaked it all day long while we were gone. The pot froze solid and it never thawed out even leaving it over the fire most of every evening. After a week, those beans were still rock hard, didn't make it back in the truck for the trip home...in the snowstorm. Yikes, was that a trip across Utah in the middle of the night before the snowplowers woke up. Nobody on that Interstate but us dummies, 10MPH. LB

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Paul Melching
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posted May 16, 2011 10:56 AM

How much did that bear weigh. I callead a 225# black bear in it looks like a kitten next to yours. Gerat trophys and great memories Troy!

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Leonard
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posted May 16, 2011 11:08 AM

Paul, did you ever see the rug that Fred (Dusty Hunter) has on his wall, California bear.

gh/lb

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csmithers
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posted May 16, 2011 11:12 AM

I suppose I need to get out more often... Nice animals.

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ursus21
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posted May 16, 2011 11:15 AM

Leonard extry long barrel on that rifle. It was a custom rifle with a wildcat caliber 30-8mmMag (Pre 300 RUM era), I borrowed from a friend. All the rest of the critters were taken with my trusty 30.06 except for the mule deer which I used a 300 Win Mag Remington AWR.

Paul I have no idea what that bear weighed. Kind'a tough to weigh them in "middle of nowhere" Alaska. His skull was 20 10/16" though.

Bearhunter, I wish you'd post a pic or two. Rumor has it that you've killed more than a few decent Yogi's...

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Paul Melching
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posted May 16, 2011 12:02 PM

Paul, did you ever see the rug that Fred (Dusty Hunter) has on his wall, California bear.

gh/lb

Yup thats quite a bruin!

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the bearhunter
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posted May 16, 2011 01:39 PM

will do. i shot my 39th bear last year. never have shot a real monster. had an honest to God 600 at 6 yards 2 years ago but he busted me in the stand. i'll never forget that.
last years bear. about 340lbs

last years whitetail

about 4-5 years ago

08 whitetail

06 buck

2 years ago

i don't have any others of bear??

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the bearhunter
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posted May 16, 2011 01:56 PM

have to brag a bit on the wife.

last year she shot her 13th??bear. took an ugly 400+ chocolate but have no pics of it. she's quite a hunter and i'm DAMN proud of her

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ursus21
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posted May 16, 2011 02:00 PM

Great bucks and bears! Even more impressive is that many were taken with a bow. I quit bowhunting about 15 years ago. Don't have anything against it just totally lost interest in it. You got a darn cute wife and the fact that she hunts is a HUGE bonus!!!

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the bearhunter
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posted May 16, 2011 02:40 PM

thanks. she's the best huntin partner i've ever had. never bitches or whines about nothing EVER!!. can gut her own animals and drags them out if she can. i to like to look at good quality hunting photos. just been backing off on it cuz some think its a bragging thing.i don't think that at all. love seeing dead stuff. 1 more from about 25 years ago when i was young,long-haired and in good shape

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Paul Melching
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posted May 16, 2011 03:57 PM

Your a lucky man bearhunter,good lookin and she hunts. I have taken my wife calling a few times and the first time a coyote came in from the junipers she starts laughing and says 'oh shit just like in the videos'. I was laughing so hard I could not have shot that coyote even if Id intended to ,we were just working the dog that day and were not killing anything.

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George Ackley
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posted May 16, 2011 04:43 PM

couple black bear, never killed a monster [Mad]

this bear was called

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George Ackley
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posted May 16, 2011 04:46 PM

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the bearhunter
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posted May 16, 2011 05:38 PM

nice George. that one on the tailgate looks like an older one???? you hunt canada in the spring???

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Leonard
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posted May 16, 2011 05:38 PM

Tell her to join, bearhunter. I already have a custom title for her. SECOND PLACE REESE WITHERSPOON LOOK-A-LIKE CONTEST.

gh/lb

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Bofire
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posted May 16, 2011 06:20 PM

7' 2" inch bear and me. aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh I cannot make the pic work./
Carl

and my sons first bear, called in shot at 21 feet. He was 17

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George Ackley
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posted May 16, 2011 07:13 PM

yes i hunt Ca in the spring in fact i am trying to get up there this spring again..

(pssport run around)
I hunt hear in PA also but different ball game here
we dont get many days and you cant bait and the season come in at the middle of the hunting season so bear are way spooked by then .
driving them with large groups of guy is the way to go in PA that time of year .
the one in the truck was called in after spotting him leaving a cut block i was able to move into the area and call him back out with my krusty call made with 2 offset voices he made me for cat hunting , it makes a interesting sounds. and the last photo was a spot and stalk in BC and all the others were over bait .
my dream is to find a good place to just spot and stalk in the lower 48.. Montana is on my list to hunt black bear . if I can get up next month I let yea now how I make out. my biggest bear is just over 400lb and my smallest is 135lb . i will have to get photos of the mounts up one of these days.

you hunting bear this year?

couple BC cats