FieLd evaLuation For Boone and crockett score BLack Bear

1 FieLd evaLuation for Boone and crockett score BLack bear by Jim Shockey Though some may disagree, what they know about judging BLack spot at prime time, odds are it's a BLack bears are one of the most bears, the one or two tips they've bear worth judging. sought after of all the big game read in some bear article, things species. Who hasn't desired a BLack like look for small ears and big Attitude bear rug? Next to whitetail deer, bears have small-looking heads. Big bears are the toughest, there is an argument to be made My pat response is that they are meanest sons-of-a-guns in the valley that BLack bears are the second most way ahead of themselves, looking and they act it. Watch a human bully popular big game animal to hunt.

2 At the size of a bear's ears or head walk down the street, he walks with a Popular to hunt they may be, isn't necessarily wrong, it just isn't swagger and an attitude. A big bear but easy to FieLd judge, they are not, the right thing to be doing first. The walks the same way. He doesn't fit and yet, in spite of the high degree first thing they should be looking at and start at every sound like a small of difficulty, everyone who hunts when they see the bear they want to bear will. A big bear doesn't have to;. BLack bears wants a big one. A meat judge is the location of that bear. he believes he's got nothing to fear. bear won't do. To whit, in all the Once you've spotted your bear on many years I've outfitted for BLack Location the prime feeding spot during prime bears, not one of my client-hunters Big bears live, eat, and hang time, it's time to get serious about has told me that his dream was to out in the best living, eating, and how that bear is behaving.

3 Shoot a small bear for the freezer. It hanging out areas. Find the best It is important to note that long hasn't happened and it never will. looking bear habitat in whatever before you judge the size of the bear, The fascination we hunters have hunting area you are in and odds you must judge the sex of that bear. with big bears is ancient and primal; are, the bear you see there will be A big, old sow will have all, or more a combination of fear and facing big, especially during prime evening correctly, almost all of the physical fear, another BLack bear dichotomy. hours. Small bears usually live characteristics of a big, old boar. It's akin to climbing up onto the roof in marginal habitat for their own She'll have the nasty looking face of a building and looking over the safety, as well they should, since big that's seen one too many years in edge, the higher the building (the BLack bears eat small bears.)

4 Often I the ring, the potbelly and the sway bigger the bear), and the deeper hear hunters tell me that they spied back. The one thing (besides the the fascination. an especially large bear right up obvious) that she won't have, except Taking all this into consideration, near the edge of the timber, near the in exceptional cases, is the I'm the why is it then that so many hunters big trees. And they may well have, biggest and baddest son of a gun in have small or medium-sized BLack but odds are, the reason that bear is the valley behavior that determines bear skin rugs on their wall? And up there near all those good escape sex more effectively than if that bear more to the point of this article, why trees, is that the bear itself is small was wearing a bikini.

5 Do they have small bear skulls in and the very tops of those nearby Watch to see if the bear stands their dens? Why indeed. Ask them trees are the best insurance against on his hind legs and rubs his back on and virtually every one of them will ending up as a bear breakfast. a tree, that's a boar. If it walks along say something to the effect of, he Of course, location is a relative and straddles small trees, wiping (or she) looked huge to me. It is a thing. In my guiding area on its scent on that tree, it's a boar. If standard and a fair evaLuation of Vancouver Island, a good location it stands up and breaks saplings BLack bear hunting. Without doubt, is a grassy meadow along a creek in over its shoulder, it's a boar.

6 If it the toughest part of taking a big BLack the bottom country or a reclaimed encounters another bear and gives bear is knowing what big looks road seeded to clover in the high chase, it's a boar and if it is following like. What follows in this article will country. In other areas, a good a smaller bear, it's a boar. hopefully help you correctly make location may be a bait pile or oat Believe it or not, if the bear has what will be your toughest judging FieLd . Because of the huge diversity attitude, meaning if it displays any call of all. of BLack bear habitat across North of the above behavior and is feeding America, good location is relative on the best food source during the First Things First and impossible to qualify.

7 Know best part of the day, I will have When my hunters ask me, and your hunting area and you'll know already made up my mind for my they all do, how to judge BLack what to look for, but remember, if client to take the bear. No looking bears, they invariably throw in there's a bear feeding on a prime at ears, head, belly or tail, if we're Copyright 2011 by Boone and crockett Club . close enough, and the bear is about 1) Body Shape: Do you wear There are bears that have to disappear. I'll call the shot and the same size pants as you did meatier heads; bears that look great live with the consequences. That's when you were in high school? and are great trophies, but that don't how important location and Be honest, does your spouse score well.

8 There are others that have attitude are. poke you in the belly once in short skulls, block-headed beasts The simple fact of the matter is, a while and tell you to cut back that look impressive, but that don't no matter how much longer I look on the Twinkies? Bigger bears score well at all and there are lanky, at that bear, I'm still not likely going are older bears, and like most skinny bears with donkey faces that to be any surer about the size of the of us, they don't have the svelte score like the devil, but that a hunter bear's skull than I was when I first bodies they once did. They tend seriously looking for a records determined it was a boar! It isn't like to look heavy and out of shape. book bear wouldn't walk across the judging any of the horned or antlered Remember, they monopolize street for.

9 BLack bear morphology is game there's nothing to look at, and the best feed and habitat, and just too darn diversified to make a it's like judging the size of a whitetail therefore exert less energy to live. science out of judging. Trust me, I've buck's antlers when those antlers are 2) Head Shape: A big bear (boar) been on both ends of the surprises inside a burlap sack. It can't be done, will have a deeper, wider and when it comes to the actual score of or at least not accurately. longer snout than a smaller bear the BLack bear I just told my hunter or a female. His ears will appear to take. Scale to be wide apart and small. If he The best way to hunt for a There is one last general is aware of you and looking your records book boar is to simply shoot appearance tip to judging BLack way, his ears won't stand up on the bear that looks good to you and bears that makes the top three in top of his head like a dog's ears, that hopefully you'll appreciate.

10 If importance, and that is scale. A big they'll seem to be aimed out to it's got a nice hide, be happy with bear looks big .. but so does a closer, the side of his head. A big bear your animal. If it has long claws smaller bear. Here's a quantitative will have well developed bulging and weighs a ton, good for you and example of this. If the bear is 150 like Arnold, biting muscles on congratulations. If it isn't as big as yards away but the hunter thinks the the top of his head. you'd like, don't fret, you're not bear is 200 yards away, the hunter 3) Legs: A big bear will have alone and the rug on your wall will will overestimate the bear's relative massively developed front still look great. If it happens to be size by somewhere near 25 percent.