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bouldersmith
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Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear
      #300087 - 05/05/17 09:11 AM

Stayed at a lodge on POW and boated over to take this prime coated boar with a .375 H&H I built a few years ago. Beautiful country and a really good time.



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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: bouldersmith]
      #300091 - 05/05/17 10:14 AM

Awesome, some huge Blackies up there back in the day, like 7.5-8 footers !!

What did yours do & did you self guide ?

Nice rifle to !

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: Sarg]
      #300092 - 05/05/17 10:30 AM

Not sure what he will square. They lodge and a taxidermist staying there estimated him at a 18+3/4" skull. No guide on this one, we did it ourselves. Bears were slow to rise this year and Only 2 bears out of 8 tags were filled. Sure is pretty up there.



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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: bouldersmith]
      #300101 - 05/05/17 03:23 PM

One day I still of hunting bear in Alaska. Lovely big blackie. Nice looking rifle you built for yourself. What projectile do you use for bear?

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: NitroX]
      #300111 - 05/05/17 04:07 PM

To coin a phrase, "spring comes late up this high"

Good work, bouldersmith - nice bear - good width between his ears.

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: DarylS]
      #300117 - 05/05/17 05:11 PM

Big boof headed bastard eh..great bear,great country..more pics please.

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: gryphon]
      #300121 - 05/05/17 05:39 PM

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Big boof headed bastard eh..great bear,great country..more pics please.


Agreed, more pics would be fantastic.

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: Claydog]
      #300126 - 05/05/17 10:53 PM

Photobucket was not working well earlier. When I can get more photos uploaded I will post them.

I used 300 grain Nosler partitions over 70 grains of RL 15 which give me 2560 fps out of my rifle. The bonded core bullets performed as expected. None recovered, complete pass through on a front shoulder shot with a a large wound channel.

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: bouldersmith]
      #300132 - 06/05/17 12:22 AM











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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: bouldersmith]
      #300133 - 06/05/17 12:24 AM





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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: bouldersmith]
      #300135 - 06/05/17 03:15 AM

Quite the bush and SOOO wet to walk through.
Nice!

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: DarylS]
      #300151 - 06/05/17 08:52 AM

Love the sea otters,great to see them back from the brink.
That game trail `tween the trees is ripe for a camera too.

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: gryphon]
      #300154 - 06/05/17 09:20 AM

Odd, I don't see any Devil's Club, but it is a small area.

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: DarylS]
      #300155 - 06/05/17 09:30 AM

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Odd, I don't see any Devil's Club, but it is a small area.



I really hate that stuff, I was still getting it out of my scalp months or even years after I got a whack in the head by it when pushing up to the tops !

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: Sarg]
      #300158 - 06/05/17 10:54 AM

Seems early for bears up there. When I lived in Alaska, May 12 was considered the magic day for bears to be out in SE Alaska. That's been a few years back, maybe it's changed with the warmer weather. Great pictures.

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: cordite]
      #300177 - 06/05/17 10:32 PM

Great pictures. Cheers for posting them.

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: Claydog]
      #300178 - 07/05/17 01:04 AM

Might be warmer there, but not here. Must be a record last spring here or bloody close to it. The trees are finally budding, though.

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: DarylS]
      #300181 - 07/05/17 01:20 AM

The locals were saying this was the worst winter in 40 years. This was the first time the lodge had opened this early for Bear hunters. Last year was very mild and everyone said the Bears were up and around a full two weeks earlier last year. I wanted a one with no rubs and got it but the success rate was pretty low over all. Two groups in camp, we had three hunters and the other group five. I was the only one in our group to fire a round. The other group missed several bears and managed to fill one tag. We averaged seeing two Bear per day which is much less than people report seeing later in the year.

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: bouldersmith]
      #300183 - 07/05/17 05:39 AM

Well done on your success and a very nice blackie.

What make is the action on your rifle?

Very good photos of great looking country.

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: Rule303]
      #300191 - 07/05/17 01:29 PM

Great looking country up there!
Thanks for posting those pics.
Daryl, what is this "devils club" of which you speak?

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: Iowa_303s]
      #300193 - 07/05/17 03:17 PM

Devil's Club is a plant with long pointing outwards & curved upwards 'stems' reaching up to 4' height, radiating from a central, sort of "pod". A large one can cover an area of about 6 to 8 feet, with 6 to 8 stems.

The very large leaves can hide the plant so your step on it or into it as you walk through the bush.

The largest I've seen in BC (South Coast and Queen Charlotte Islands) have stems about 1 3/4" in diameter with a enlarged sort of knob on the end about 4" X 8" long. The stems and knobs have spines 1/4" long up to almost an inch.

With the larger Devil's Club plants, there can be up to a few feet in between the stems, so it's easy to step between the stems, but if you step on the central pod, the arms will come up from behind, sides and front and smack you, embedding the spines- sort of like stepping on a rake, with a whole bunch of extra handles going to smack you when you step on the end. Jeans are the worse for holding small spines and they bury into the flesh and can infect - they are also hard to see with good eye sight.

They aren't poisonous, but can be dirty and are a huge irritant. The little ones might be the worse as the can be unseen in the foliage until one smacks you on the back of the leg which can leave a lot of little spines embedded through your jeans, into your leg.

They usually come up to the surface after they fester a bit.

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: DarylS]
      #300194 - 07/05/17 03:21 PM

Leaf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_club#/media/File:Devil%27s_club_leaf.jpg

Large Stem with leaf branches off it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_club#/media/File:Oplopanax_horridus_15099.JPG

Smaller plants in the open.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_club#/media/File:Oplopanax_horridus_form.jpg

Descriptions and area of prevalence.

http://cms.herbalgram.org/herbalgram/iss...10655eff5a73772

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: DarylS]
      #300198 - 07/05/17 07:14 PM

Looks like it is a right royal pain in the backside. though the medical side of it may give it some redemption.

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: Rule303]
      #300211 - 08/05/17 12:46 AM

Thanks for the botanical education Daryl! (Kind of went "Retired Forester" on us).

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Re: Kuiu Island AK spring Black Bear [Re: Iowa_303s]
      #300225 - 08/05/17 11:35 AM

the Latin horridus spells it out in the link...what a poxed up plant that is!

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