Double Grizzly Hunt On The Wild Coast: Part I

fratri said:
That was a very good read
some beautiful country and a great adventure
Congrats and thanks for sharing it. pretty cool stuff
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Appreciate the kind words, it is indeed a spectacular place.


medvedqc said:
good start Angus ...
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Thanks Phil, as you well know you could go on forever about hunting. The challenge is reducing ten days into barely more paragraphs. Most of the more pointed thoughts on loads and bullets have been omitted, so far.

PEKS said:
Great read, thanks..
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Thanks for the kind words.
 
Angus, is it common to see bear with disproportionate head to body size?

Not to compare bear to deer, but I have seen and harvested big body deer with lower than body size antlers...... and it's usually attributed to old age (something I have confirmed by cross cutting a tooth)..... but I have never seen that in black bear, at least not to the extent where a 500 pound grizz would make b&c (loosely translated of course).....

Just curious on your take as you are learning your territory and furthering your knowledge about the species as well......
 
It's honestly a dog's breakfast, hunted a bear that would be 900lbs in fall with a 24" skull (B&C all time book), a 400ish pound fall bear with a 24 1/8", a 600ish with a 22 4/8", and 450ish pound with a ~22". I've seen no consistent pattern, and have come to believe they're just like people and come in all sorts of weird combinations. Kong still lives, a monster the guides see from time to time and who I haven't laid eyes on anything but the tracks from yet. Will see his proportions hopefully next year!
 
I find that interesting....... I have seen plenty of black bears taking their time to fatten up in the spring.... and plenty of fall blackies that were fatter than their head....... but never would have guessed that during the salmon run, you could find a grizz in the fall that was small bodied and big headed.......

Cool that you have a "kong" as well...... every camp, and plot, and more important, territory needs a legend....... :)
 
That they do! Dogleg and I first heard of him from the fishing guides, when I found tracks an order of magnitude bigger than anything else in two successive years in the same river, I'm forced to believe it. True government weighed 1,000lb bears have come from the small region (one is mounted in the Smithers airport, 1,012lbs government biologist weighed, and the largest weighed in BC by the gov at 1100), so my hopes are up. He won't be much fun to skin if I do find him.
 
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