michigan u.p. black bear, 640# dressed

[Rhino Hunter]

call bs all u want, the tv show Discovering, the Michigan Woods and Water magazine, Michigan conservation officers facebook page, and Michigan outdoors writer Richard p Smith are all liars.

906 Outdoors

Cheeser,

You should watch the video that you posted. The guy in the video states that he weighs “614 pounds” while it’s laying on a scale...ungutted. That would be the live weight. Not 640-650 dressed, and certainly not “around 730 pounds live weight.”

I stand by my statement...it’s “B.S.”

It looks like a real nice bear, but not close to 730 pounds. From what I see I don’t think it weighs 614 pound live weight either. Still, it’s a very nice bear!

 

[wyoboypt]

call bs all u want, the tv show Discovering, the Michigan Woods and Water magazine, Michigan conservation officers facebook page, and Michigan outdoors writer Richard p Smith are all liars.

906 Outdoors

Don’t believe everything you see on the internet.

 

[cheeser]

Cheeser,

You should watch the video that you posted. The guy in the video states that he weighs “614 pounds” while it’s laying on a scale...ungutted. That would be the live weight. Not 640-650 dressed, and certainly not “around 730 pounds live weight.”

I stand by my statement...it’s “B.S.”

It looks like a real nice bear, but not close to 730 pounds. From what I see I don’t think it weighs 614 pound live weight either. Still, it’s a very nice bear!

yes i agree the quote in first photo doesnt agree with the scale. dont kill the messenger. another reported yesterday.

 

[Rhino Hunter]

Cheeser,

No disrespect to you intended in the least. My apologies if you took it that way.

But bears that big in MI just don’t seem to exist. By that I mean a bear over 700 pounds. And looking at the pic and then the video it didn’t appear to me that the bear was big enough to be over 700 pounds.

As I said before-it’s still a bear of a lifetime! Congrats to the hunter.

Happy Hunting!

Regarding the pic of the 2nd huge bear you posted...Geez! Look at the head on that thing!

 

[Bullshot]

New Jersey had an 829 lb monster harvested a few years ago, and routinely a number of other extra large bears 500, 600, 700 lbs. Big ones are not uncommon here. If they can get that big in this socialist utopia, why not MI? Too bad our liberal governor banned bear hunting on State Lands last year. Once that is reversed, if any of you want to come here and go after big bears just let me know, I will draw you a map. See more bears than deer some days. They have overrun so many areas. I think it cost like $2 bucks for a permit also.

Record New Jersey bear unveiled at Pequest Trout Hatchery open house

OXFORD — It was more than two years ago when Bruce Headley, 62, a hunter from Morris County bagged an 829-pound black bear on his property. The 13-year-old bear measuring 6 feet, 11 inches from the tip of nose to...

www.nj.com

PA had a big one too... It was also a New Jersey bear that swam across the Delaware River.

Record-busting, 879-pound bear bagged in Poconos

The heaviest black bear ever recorded in Pennsylvania was shot and killed by a bow hunter just north of Fernwood Resort in Pike County on Monday. The

www.poconorecord.com

 

[Rhino Hunter]

WOW!!! A couple World Class Black Bears there.

 

[Muley_Stalker]

Colorado has had some bear bears killed over the years but generally aren't very big. What we do have is a lot of color phase bears which is kind of cool.

Wow! 879lbs would get the adrenaline flowing.

 

[thusby]

700+ is a true monster anywhere in North America. They are there. I have seen some around 400 pounds and they were huge. I'd love to see a 700+ in person.