bear weights (field dressed-out weights)

cecil j. · Post by **cecil j.** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:42 am

Two part Question :
A) your states heavest bear taken over dogs
B) the heavestiest bear your dog was on and bear harvested

Darvin Ecklund · Post by **Darvin Ecklund** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:56 am

Not sure what the state record is, but I killed one bayed up on the ground in the spring that was weighted in field-dressed 509 1/2 lbs on a certified scale. This was a Washington State bear.

cecil j. · Post by **cecil j.** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:18 am

Darvin Ecklund wrote:Not sure what the state record is, but I killed one bayed up on the ground in the spring that was weighted in field-dressed 509 1/2 lbs on a certified scale. This was a Washington State bear.

Boy thats a huge bear, I hope it don`t put the other big dogs up on the porch/ shoot a SALTY BEAR who is a back braker too getting harvested is also another TROPHY BEAR for a guy too give note-on ! Come on boys lets hear it, I never ever was on a 509 1/2 lber why how many have ? our boy here didn`t raize the barr, shoot he removed-it from the stands and said now then : aim for the moon / by thunder !

Darvin Ecklund · Post by **Darvin Ecklund** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:08 pm

Celci I decided to add my story to this big bear. For some of you that have a scope on your bear rifle, you may think twice. I harvested this 509 1/2 pounder about 10 years ago on a timber damage control hunt. The week before I had a bear bayed and didn't get a very good shot on him and when I went to shot again my gun jammed. Lucky for me my brother was coming up the road and got out and gave me his gun and I finished the job. Only one dog got tore up and it wasn't very bad. Next time I went I put my 270 in the truck and it had a scope on it. I was kind of afraid the other gun would jam again and didn't have time to take it in so this time out I brought my 270. Problem with this gun is that it had a scope on it. The whole time hunting that day is was hoping not to bay one up- Well my wish did not come true. About 15 minutes after the strike, the bay up began. Out I bailed with my scoped rifle - what a fool. I worked my way through the thick blackberry bushes and devil's club and salal and there he was tucked back against a stump. I was only about 15 feet away from him but couldn't see him real well because of the brush. I lifted by gun to my shoulder and looked through the crosshairs. Nothing! I pulled my gun down to my hip and there he was about 5 feet off the end of my barrel. He had rushed the dogs, they spread out, and there he was!I pulled the trigger from my hip and the bear spun around and the bay up continued. I found blood and followed the dogs to a water hole where they had him stopped. The dogs stopped him in the middle of a creek in a deep water hole. This time a well placed shot in the head finished him off. I still didn't realise how big he was because he was in that deep water. My three buddies arrived and two from the timber company. They brought in a chainsaw winch and we winched him out of this rather deep water hole. As we were pulling him out of the water we couldn"t believe how big this bear was. When we got him to the truck, we took him down to the local meat shop and placed him on the certified scale- "509 1 / 2 ". All my life I had told guys that you never want to use a scope when your hunting behind hounds. My dad had told me this from day one at a very young age and it made sense. Beg, borrow , or steal a gun with open sights when bear hunting with hounds, as long as you don't use a rifle with a scope.

Darvin Ecklund · Post by **Darvin Ecklund** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:09 pm

I will try to dig up some pictures and learn how to put them on in the next couple days

BlacktailStalker · Post by **BlacktailStalker** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:29 pm

Thats a brute Darvin, congrats, lookin forward to the pics.

beardogger4life · Post by **beardogger4life** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:48 pm

hey darvin you know how hound hunters are, and im not trying to insult you but when i heard the story josh was the one who killed that bear. maybe i just heard wrong.

Darvin Ecklund · Post by **Darvin Ecklund** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:13 pm

You heard wrong

I actually gave the hide to John and he made a 3/4 mount of it. Haven't talked with Josh in a long time. Is he still around?

Darvin Ecklund · Post by **Darvin Ecklund** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:19 pm

Hey beardogger- Did you guys get any big ones last year?

beardogger4life · Post by **beardogger4life** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:21 pm

yeah, i think. last time i saw him he was working for his dad there in mckenna and was getting fat. he looked healthy. carl was working there too.

beardogger4life · Post by **beardogger4life** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:26 pm

we always kill a few between 250 and 350 but never any that big.one day when i wasn't there charlie killed one that was really big but the forklift broke and he couldn't weigh it. he was sure it was the biggiest one we had gotten over there in the dickey unit

Darvin Ecklund · Post by **Darvin Ecklund** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:38 pm

Beardogger-We killed a big one up there a few years back and didn't weight him. It was a big bear. I would guess 375 +. Heck anything over 250 is a good bear and even those don't come too often. Ya I think that dickey unit is the furtherest north a guy could hunt. With the price of fuel its getting pretty spendy unless a person camps for a month at a time and the way those permits after the first couple days a person may be moving somewhere else. It's a 3 hour drive for me. Hzven't heard the "Carl" name in years. If you talk with those guys tell them I said hello.

carl siegle · Post by **carl siegle** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:04 pm

josh has never said he killed that big bear Darvin got.. he was there hunting with darvin. infact i think he treed a rat eariler that same morning. hell you know us we dont have anything to prove to anyone. houndsmen gossip like little old ladys enough that theres no reason to lie about kills and stuff. anyway darvin is telling the truth. im surprised you could actually understand joshs mumbling lazy ass . there are not many people who can usully make out more than a word or two in each sentence. well im sick of typing get your ass out of that hole in the gound you call home and come visit.

Darvin Beardogger are either of you guys going to matlock and the banquet this weekend?

beardogger4life · Post by **beardogger4life** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:14 pm

hey carl i never said that josh said that. it was just what i had heard and its been so long i dont even remember who was talking about it. i was just asking and it wasn't that i didn't believe darvin but i was just wanting to know if what i heard was b.s.. Darvin answered and that was that. i think i willl be down there. how about you and the mumbler?

Borderpond · Post by **Borderpond** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:23 pm

Had a hunter I was guiding kill one 422 lbs . Kids father missed it at 10 yards crossing the road with the dogs all over it. Me and the son went after it on foot .Dogs finally got it bayed up good and we walked up and shot it at about 20 ft. 4 30-06 rounds before it went down for good.Ended up right near a tote road so took it out whole rather than skinning it in the woods.

Funny thing about that hunt.We had a split run off that bait. My buddy radioed me to tell me that one of my dogs had been treed solid for a couple of hours in a different direction.Walked the dad in on that one,coon up the tree !! The dad complained nonstop about the dog treeing a coon on a bear hunt !! Never shut up the whole way out to the truck.Never mind the monster bear his boy had just killed.All he did was bit** about treeing a coon.

bear weights (field dressed-out weights)

bear weights (field dressed-out weights)

509 1/2 lber fiel dressed weighed-in/wooeeeeee

beardogger4life