The Outfitting Year in Pictures on the Wild Coast

Yea we just came out, the wolf was a very neat development. Bear's a healthy mature specimen with good pics, 6'5 squared (6 nose to tail, 6'9.5" claw to claw), he'll be good eating. Proper good time out there, but our weather was a handful at times. Pretty good flood occurring right now on the north coast.

Taking spring off this year after this as we have a new baby again, but we finally figured out what's causing those and think we've got a handle on it after this.
 
We tried, fellas are residents and had draw tags, however the Grizzlies weren't overly cooperative, strange year on the north coast and what was knee high grass last year was boot high if that and sparse. We were inside 15 yards of a big one floating down as it checked us out from the bank last light, but the light wasn't there. Had a marginal young boar grizz at eighty yards or so for quite awhile too, but circumstances and the bear not being a brute decided he had a lucky day, I will be hunting grizz in fall again and aim to get Kong. He's the owner of these tracks and has worn his claws to nothing, local legend, was neat to cut his tracks again just four hundred yards from camp. He passed in the dark as the tracks disappeared under the tide line. Round's a .375 H&H seated too long for bolt actions (double cartridge, seated to second groove of CEB to pack in more RL15).


 
I have my fingers crossed for you (and I), that the grizz hunt lasts through next spring.... if Kong is still amongst us by then, the hunt would be even more interesting...... beautiful black nonetheless.....
 
Ardent said:
We tried, fellas are residents and had draw tags, however the Grizzlies weren't overly cooperative, strange year on the north coast and what was knee high grass last year was boot high if that and sparse. We were inside 15 yards of a big one floating down as it checked us out from the bank last light, but the light wasn't there. Had a marginal young boar grizz at eighty yards or so for quite awhile too, but circumstances and the bear not being a brute decided he had a lucky day, I will be hunting grizz in fall again and aim to get Kong. He's the owner of these tracks and has worn his claws to nothing, local legend, was neat to cut his tracks again just four hundred yards from camp. He passed in the dark as the tracks disappeared under the tide line. Round's a .375 H&H seated too long for bolt actions (double cartridge, seated to second groove of CEB to pack in more RL15).


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How many inches across do you figure that paw print is?
 
chuck nelson said:
While this seems to be a popular belief. The tape does not always bare this out.
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For mature bears, it's usually pretty close. Smaller bears can be all over the map. What were the paw/hide measurements on the bear you killed the other day?

Most of the 6ft+ black bears and all the grizzlies I've been in on have folowed that rule of thumb pretty close.

But there are big bodied bears with pinheads, big melon bears with small bodies, big bears with smaller paws and small bears with big paws, nothing is certian.

As a general ballpark rule though, it would not surprise me at all if the bear that left that track is around 9ft long, and if Ardent gets Kong at one point, I have no doubt he would tape out at about 9 ft, which is not unfathomable on the north coast of BC.
 
Gatehouse said:
For mature bears, it's usually pretty close. Smaller bears can be all over the map. What were the paw/hide measurements on the bear you killed the other day?

Most of the 6ft+ black bears and all the grizzlies I've been in on have folowed that rule of thumb pretty close.

But there are big bodied bears with pinheads, big melon bears with small bodies, big bears with smaller paws and small bears with big paws, nothing is certian.

As a general ballpark rule though, it would not surprise me at all if the bear that left that track is around 9ft long, and if Ardent gets Kong at one point, I have no doubt he would tape out at about 9 ft, which is not unfathomable on the north coast of BC.
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So the tape doesn't always bare this out. How interesting.
 
Two guys who've guided more big Grizzlies than everyone on this forum combined have both confided their track measurement beliefs and in one case "bush formula". The one guy has guided enough eight foot plus Grizzlies he's very honestly lost track, and he's a heavy believer in track measurement. It isn't that far removed from Gate's suggestion there, and nobody would argue big tracks don't equal big bears, or that physical variations do allow for odd ones out. Overall it's a fairly sound basis to get in the ballpark on. The main client (not pictured earlier) on this hunt is someone many would know of in hunting circles and has killed a lot of Grizzlies and big bears of several species, we both spit balled the same number when looking at tracks and gait as Gate proposed. Hopefully in fall I'll know for sure, but he's almost completely nocturnal from what I've found so far.
 
Ardent said:
Yea we just came out, the wolf was a very neat development. Bear's a healthy mature specimen with good pics, 6'5 squared (6 nose to tail, 6'9.5" claw to claw), he'll be good eating. Proper good time out there, but our weather was a handful at times. Pretty good flood occurring right now on the north coast.

Taking spring off this year after this as we have a new baby again, but we finally figured out what's causing those and think we've got a handle on it after this.
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Whut izz it yer say'in.............?
Stay'in home stawps the missus frum gitt'in ............well..........bigger'n the belly?
Hmmmmmm..............:nest:


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