Rflshootr
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I want to know who the poor sob was that had to drag him out and how he did it. 
11 ft brown bear
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They put it back on your Yeti cousin, where they got it!!!!!!
I'd call for a RE- MEASURE! 1/16".....PLLLLLLLHHHH! Must be the other shooters GRANDSON...or at least a relative!
It's hard to tell from the pictures..., but I was expecting the body to look larger in the 2nd photo. The photo with the guys positioned on each side. Based on it being an 11 foot bear.
It does have a nice broad head. Which helps increase the skull measurement.
It does have a nice broad head. Which helps increase the skull measurement.
that's a different, smaller bear in the other pic
Can you even imagine weight of hide and skull?I want to know who the poor sob was that had to drag him out and how he did it.
Swinehunt74
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Congrats on such a brute! I think your 300wm was perfect for that guy........Always shot placement. Would have been lugging a 375 just in case.
Bret GRAVELINE Graveline
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I pretty sure they're the same bear both have a scar between the eyes
Frenchie1
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Three and six bits would have been my choice as well. (Coined from Pinnel & Tolifson, The Great Brown Bear Men)
gillettehunter
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One huge bear. Congrats to all involved.
Bruce
Bruce
Should probably stay out if it. But it does look like the same log supporting the head, the same rocks next to the log hauled in to prop up the head, the same facial scars...
Big skulled bears don't always have big bodies. Doesn't take anything away from the trophy status of any boar with a 30" + skull. A 29" skull is huge. So this is a HUGE skull, by any measuring stick. Some boars are genetically programmed with the potential to grow bigger skulls.
Only reason for my comnent..., I expected to see a humongous body on a boar with an 11 foot squared hide. Figured the body would fill out that hide.
Have seen and shot brown bear on Kodiak Island having much larger bodies, with much smaller skulls. Skulls in + 27" range. They do say Kodiak Island produces large-bodied brown bear. So maybe that's the explanation...
comfisherman
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Winter was both early and stayed late, maybe it looks smaller from a longer hibernation period. That critter after a summer fattening would be a whopper.
Right. And food supplies available to the bear on the AK Peninsula may not be as abundant as Kodiak Island.
The largest boar I shot on Kodiak Island still had a 4" layer of fat on his ribcage, and that was fresh out of hibernation. In late April. Still had mudballs in his fur from his den.
The largest boar I shot on Kodiak Island still had a 4" layer of fat on his ribcage, and that was fresh out of hibernation. In late April. Still had mudballs in his fur from his den.
