After three days in Iron River and seeing 13 bears, finally decided on taking this 250 pound sow. Excellent learning experience! The best way to learn to judge a bear’s size is being able to see alot of bears. She went 35 yards after a well placed shot with the Encore Loader with 120 grains pushing a Harvester Hard Cast bullet. Even saw my first two wolves in the wild.
Just got the mount back from 2008 Manitoba kill. Estimated (from length/girth, etc) weight of 585-600 pounds. Old (20-25 years) dry sow. Skull went 18 0/8.
2010 Alberta Colored Bear. Distance was about 12 yards and recovery was about 3ft. The outfitter said that if a cinnamon comes into the bait I probably want to shoot him as he had a history of aggression and was pepper sprayed once during the spring hunts. The bear came in four times from four different directions before a large flock of canadian geese flew over as they were going to land in the beaver pond and gave me the distraction I needed to get the bow back. It was a super quiet evening and the bear spooked once from the sound of the arrow sliding on the whisker biscuit. I have to thank those geese for some background noise that night.