Posted: 12/14/2014 1:57:26 PM EDT
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I'm thinking it is only 120 pounds needs to be 100 or larger to shoot. I would like to get a bigger one but this is the first I have seen in my area. To late for this year but would like to be able judge size better. What weight would you estimate it being.
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| OP..I would say he is over 125 pds..but what we do for sizing is tie marking tape in the trees at "x" distance from ground(which for our grizzles we use 48")..we do it on all trees within camera view.....that way no matter where he is at you have a marker close to judge off..... |
| This isn't a very big bear --- might go 120 lbs...??? Its ears are fairly large, its legs long and overall appearance sort of "rangy", and its head/face fairly long and narrow (vs. round and pig-like), all indications of a fairly small, still immature bear. I'd put this in the "catch and release" category, and hold out for a bigger specimen. In any case, bears are scored by the size of their skulls, not by weight or stretched out measurements their hides, so weight isn't a very important measure of size --- Jackie Gleason wouldn't have been a trophy specimen of homo sapiens, despite his heft, and an overweight bear ain't necessarily a trophy... Google "black bear girth/weight chart" for lots of info on estimating weight by measuring bear's girth,length, etc. --- let us know if you have any luck getting them to hold still... |
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Well, I'm guessing >100 lbs and definately <200 lbs. Having seen several bears killed, two myself I'm basing that on what I've seen.
1) A true 350+ lb bear (I've only seen a couple of them) are seriously massive. 2) A bear in the 225-250 lb range is no slouch, but are still big and pretty rare around here. (I've seen a few and helped drag a couple). 3) A bear in the 150 range (what this looks like) is the most common around here and both bears I have killed have been in that vicinity, were 3-4 years old, and I was proud to get them. |
| Out of curiousity (why else?), I took a look at this older thread, to see what respondents had to offer, and given the mostly inaccurate, unsupported estimates of the subject bear's weight, I wondered whether I might not have misinterpreted the post title as a command rather than a question, but after rereading the OP, came back to my original supposition that the query was for evidence/experience - based, informed estimates of the subject bear's weight. The post title was accurate,asking for help to judge size for somebody who has never seen a black bear, not bysomebody who never has... Yet another reminder to value internet forum advice at its cost... |
), you'll see the bullet from a .300WSM pass through the bigger bear. He ran about 75yds. Took 4 of us, 5 hours, to get him out of the woods. 
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