Ripp
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Dieter Herbert has a lot to be thankful for.
The 18-year-old Long Island, N.Y., native shot his first black bear over Thanksgiving weekend – and the big bruiser could very well be the biggest taken in New York.
The big bear, shot in Greene County, N.Y., with a Remington Model 7 in .308, weighed 520 pounds gutted, placing the bear’s live weight over 600 pounds, with the skull measuring a rough 22 inches.
Not bad at all for his first bruin, and Herbert was happy to share the details with Petersen’s Hunting.
http://www.petersenshunting.com/2011/11/30/teen-takes-possible-no-1-new-york-black-bear/
Ripp
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Edited by Ripp (14/12/11 01:31 AM)
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DarylS
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22" is a great Black Bear, for sure. They only reach that size in BC - over on the Queen Charlotte Islands, off the West coast.
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Ripp
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Agree totally---the ones here in Montana--the really big ones are in the 19 range if you are lucky..with a few over --but quite rare for that..
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Sville
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And he had been pleased with a 19  .
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DarylS
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I'd be quite leased with a 19" bear skull. Biggest normally around here are at or barely over 20" - 7 to 7' 10" (max that I've seen) squared. It was 21" (I think) green skull.
Isn't 20" needed on a B Bear for bear minumum for the Boone and Crocket?
Anything 6' or better is a pretty good bear. My best was 6'4" (old sow) - .458 in right side of mellon - zygomic (zygomatic?) arch gone off the left side, but she had a very narrow long face anyway.
yes - that 22"er is a good'n.
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Mike_Bailey
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What a cracker, he must be over the moon ! best
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mikeh416Rigby
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I hope that bear has passed his genes on over the past several years.
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Ripp
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I hope that bear has passed his genes on over the past several years.
I am guessing with the normal amount of time it takes to get to that size..that old boy entertained many a sow through the years..
Wow--there are so many things I could say after that statement..but I had best leave that one alone..
Ripp
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