Muzzleloader Bear

[Palerider]

My First (and after this maybe only..) bear.
Saturday night 6:15 pm in Clinton county
Muzzleloader, 50 cal Hornady I forgot which bullets

Came out about 45 yards away, perfect broadside, went about 2 stumbling strides and dropped
Sow
230lbs
5 ft nose to tail
The suckling teeth the game commission like to pull was already gone so thinking she was getting up there in age

Getting her done into a rug mount with the skull bleached for a mount.

[wanneroo]

I had someone hunt my property for bear last week and the funny thing was I captured this huge bear on the trail cam standing exactly where he was but the twain shall never meet. Had a bunch of other bears running all the over the damn place near where he sat but only when he wasn't there.

[STBear]

My First (and after this maybe only..) bear.
Saturday night 6:15 pm in Clinton county
Muzzleloader, 50 cal Hornady I forgot which bullets

Came out about 45 yards away, perfect broadside, went about 2 stumbling strides and dropped
Sow
230lbs
5 ft nose to tail
The suckling teeth the game commission like to pull was already gone so thinking she was getting up there in age

Getting her done into a rug mount with the skull bleached for a mount.

Congrats.

[Emptymag]

Your face mask isn't blaze orange and it doesn't have the PAGC logo!
And you're wearing it too high. How did you aim???



Congrats

[Qtrborecrazy]

Nice bear Palerider! What was the powder charge in the smoke pole?

[R L Suehr]

Congratulations

Nice looking bruin there.

[Here4now]

Congrats.

Nice sized sow.

[Palerider]

Nice bear Palerider! What was the powder charge in the smoke pole?

Thanks all!

I used 2 of the IMR White Hot Pellets for a total of 100 grains. Checked and I used the Hornady Monoflex sabots, red tip, 250 grains. Plenty lethal combo at that range. Had a good size exit round on other side and found part of jacket inside when gutting.

Amen to cleaning deer size animals. I couldn*t get the damn poop tube out so I split the pelvis to be able to get the bottom half all cleaned out. Taxidermist said shit, made my job a lot harder to skin as he likes to hang the bear on his hoist using a hook on the pelvis bone. He said next time leave it in there if you can*t get it out we*ll take care of it here.

[God's Country]

Your face mask isn't blaze orange and it doesn't have the PAGC logo!
And you're wearing it too high. How did you aim???



Congrats

lol can tell you haven't hunted since the 80's?
Don't think the PGC has referred to hunter orange as blaze orange for 30 years.
Just fluorescent orange now.


Awesome harvest BTW......congrats.

[Emptymag]

lol can tell you haven't hunted since the 80's?
Don't think the PGC has referred to hunter orange as blaze orange for 30 years.
Just fluorescent orange now.


Awesome harvest BTW......congrats.

What, are you some sort of detective, or something?
1986 or so. LOL!