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boxhead .375 Atomic Posts: 2,298	Last years bear Apr 30, 2012 14:12:42 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by boxhead on Apr 30, 2012 14:12:42 GMT -5 arrived home. Dear wife just sent a photo.

whitworth .458 Devastator Posts: 7,072	Last years bear Apr 30, 2012 14:29:42 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by whitworth on Apr 30, 2012 14:29:42 GMT -5 Awesome! Really nice taxidermy! Did you post up the hunt details??
	Max Prasac Semper Fidelis! "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" The Gun Digest Book of Hunting Revolvers: youtu.be/zKJbjjPaNUE BIG IRON: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6aXjMH5C30

ChrisO .30 Stingray Posts: 226	Last years bear Apr 30, 2012 14:57:18 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ChrisO on Apr 30, 2012 14:57:18 GMT -5 Stunning!!! What did you shoot him with Sir?

paulg .375 Atomic Posts: 2,420	Last years bear Apr 30, 2012 16:46:37 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by paulg on Apr 30, 2012 16:46:37 GMT -5 That is COOL!

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Last years bear May 1, 2012 2:57:05 GMT -5

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Post by boxhead on May 1, 2012 2:57:05 GMT -5

Thanks all. I don't have any other picures as my wife just snapped a few. I won't be home until September so it's killing me not seeing them up close. It was a ten day hunt outside Golden BC for both black and grizzly. The black is a rug shown below. I had the taxidermy work done locally in Cranbrook as the gent does loads of bears. He put a bit too much snarl in the mouth of the grizzly but other than that he looks exactly how he did when I came upon him. I was using my 338-06 loaded with 225 gr Accubonds at 2650 fps. Here's the rifle, a lightweight I put together in '95 for elk hunting.

whitworth .458 Devastator Posts: 7,072	Last years bear May 1, 2012 5:47:48 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by whitworth on May 1, 2012 5:47:48 GMT -5 Beautiful bears! Congratulations! Love the coat on the griz!
	Max Prasac Semper Fidelis! "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" The Gun Digest Book of Hunting Revolvers: youtu.be/zKJbjjPaNUE BIG IRON: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6aXjMH5C30

oldschool .30 Stingray Posts: 339	Last years bear May 1, 2012 7:53:39 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by oldschool on May 1, 2012 7:53:39 GMT -5 Outstanding grizzly mount. Looks really classy. Too much snarl? Only you would know that...if I was you, I'd keep that under my hat! ;-)

ChrisO .30 Stingray Posts: 226	Last years bear May 1, 2012 17:01:54 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ChrisO on May 1, 2012 17:01:54 GMT -5 A super congratulations!!! Very nice photo taking also...beautiful pictures!!!!

sixgunnn .240 Incinerator Posts: 50	Last years bear May 1, 2012 19:50:18 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sixgunnn on May 1, 2012 19:50:18 GMT -5 Wow what a great hunt and great pics and mounts to remember it by !

bushog .450 Bonecrusher Northern NM Posts: 9,909	Last years bear May 2, 2012 8:09:19 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by bushog on May 2, 2012 8:09:19 GMT -5 What's that lightweight? A KS? Chambering?
	ol' Bushy In the Cottonwoods "How many of us really need all the big bores we have? The need is not physical, the need is mental, emotional, spiritual, or whatever tag one wishes to apply. Dreams make life bearable. And hopefully for some of us, the dreams become reality". John Taffin Sixgunner August 1988

boxhead .375 Atomic Posts: 2,298	Last years bear May 2, 2012 12:09:20 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by boxhead on May 2, 2012 12:09:20 GMT -5 May 2, 2012 8:09:19 GMT -5 bushog said: What's that lightweight? A KS? Chambering? The stock is a take off from a KS 375 H&H I had. The rest is a Wallyword synthetic ADL rebored by Cliff LaBounty to 338-06 with Talley LW's.

buckheart .375 Atomic Posts: 1,021	Last years bear May 3, 2012 5:03:08 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by buckheart on May 3, 2012 5:03:08 GMT -5 Is that a head shot on the grizzly?
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boxhead .375 Atomic Posts: 2,298	Last years bear May 3, 2012 11:58:15 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by boxhead on May 3, 2012 11:58:15 GMT -5 May 3, 2012 5:03:08 GMT -5 buckheart said: Is that a head shot on the grizzly? No, I don't head shoot. On impact he spun around trying to bite at the exit wound doing fast 360's probably 5 or 6 times before dropping. Pretty wild.
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Last years bear May 4, 2012 5:33:23 GMT -5

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Looks like it was a great hunt and the snarl looks appropriate .
I ask because my brother in law took an 8 pointer this past year where the first shot rolled him and the second shot hit him in the jaw, far back close to the joint. Basically took out his wisdom teeth. He had it mounted and you would hardly know. Good taxidermy sure is an art!

John-Here's to the sunny slopes of long ago.

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Last years bear May 9, 2012 1:43:30 GMT -5

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Post by Snyd on May 9, 2012 1:43:30 GMT -5

Beautiful!

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"One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted...If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job."

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