Griz - Before and After
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Bambistew
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Very nice looking rug. I hope to get my little blacky back this month.
Have ya taken the ol lady for a test drive on it yet?
Have ya taken the ol lady for a test drive on it yet?
I don't know what I like more: the sweet rug with a perfect hide on it; or the provocative posing. If you threw some booby tassels on Big Fin, you could market a calendar.
Damn Spitz, you need help, if I am considered provacative. Tassles aren't gonna be enough to make a calendar of my ugly face become a profitable seller.
I tried to get the wife to do the posing, but that was quickly shot down. She grabbed the camera and started giving instructions.
The joke around the house revolves around the "test drive" idea. I suspect it will continue to be just that, a joke. Damn!
IdahoBugler
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Nice bear Fin. Looks good even with you on it.
The Hedgehog
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Apparently I just missed seeing that in your office - stopped by at noon. I'm bummed. Looks like some nice work - who was the taxidermist?
I've had my bear rug for 6 years and just broke it in last fall.
Oh, and I don't want to see you in tassels. Keep those pictures between you and Spitz.
I've had my bear rug for 6 years and just broke it in last fall.
Oh, and I don't want to see you in tassels. Keep those pictures between you and Spitz.
Greenie:
You missed him by about ten minutes.
Damn, I almost wore him out showing him off to clients this morning. Many offered to take him home for the initial test drive. Maybe I should rent him out for such detail and use the money to pay Jerry for his taxi fee.
You missed him by about ten minutes.
Damn, I almost wore him out showing him off to clients this morning. Many offered to take him home for the initial test drive. Maybe I should rent him out for such detail and use the money to pay Jerry for his taxi fee.
Steiny
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Nice ! My next grizz will be a rug.
Pointer:
That would have been the same for me, but Grandpa lives up there (no guide required), so he took me out for eight days of bear hunting and fishing. I would not have been able to go at full price.
Wife is fine with it, so long as she doesn't have to deal with it.
Oak:
That bear was taken about 75 yards of the end of my barrel.
Really, I shot him in SE Alaska. More specifically, the Chilkat River northwest of Haines, just a couple miles from BC. The biologist says in the fall, interior bears migrate in from BC to eat fish in the rivers. He was sure a bear this dark was actually an interior griz that came over the hill a few miles from BC.
I really don't know if the biologist is correct, but this was the most cooperative bear we found in those days of hunting. His dark, thick coat, and the fact he was messing around at my Grandpa's favorite fishin' hole combined for a bad day for this guy.
Thanks Gramps!
ashersdad
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Great looking bear. I love the rug. Beautiful color.
Big Fin- Good deal! Gotta like a grampa like that! My wife wouldn't care if I shot one, she'd just care that I had to pay $10K+ to do so. Now if those rumors of opening some areas up where NR don't rquire a guide would come true...
BigHornRam
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Nice bear rug BF. No excuses.....break him in!
Sorry about that Oak. Maybe that Lasik surgery didn't work as good as I thought it did.
I shot it in October, 2006.
Anyhow, I am glad to tell the details of where, as I won't be shooting another one anytime soon.
I shot it in October, 2006.
Anyhow, I am glad to tell the details of where, as I won't be shooting another one anytime soon.
Bwana
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Awesome bear Big Fin, any chance you got video of that one?
As for the "break-in" perhaps you need to cook her a supper some evening that involves a bottle or two of vino.
As for the "break-in" perhaps you need to cook her a supper some evening that involves a bottle or two of vino.
