Would like to do a lifesize of this one!

[Krysta (Knuxtiger4)]

It really shouldn't be any surprise that these guys are so big.  Hell, they've NEVER BEEN HUNTED.  I'll give you guys 5 or 6  years and your average size will be back to the natioLnal average - 135 pounds.  LOL

I'm not.  The bears here just steal garbage, go dumpster diving, and get fed by morons who think they won't bite their hand off. I still think they should be doing this yearly or at least every two years.

[Glenn]

A friend of my hunting partner took a sow in 2005 that went around 660 pounds.  I have the news paper photo some place of a bear taken on the last day of the 2005 season - hoisted on the bucket of a front end loader - that was well over 700 pounds.  Took an ATV, several guys and an aluminum boat to get it out of  the woods.  A friend of mine that left Jersey in the 70's to become a guide up in BC calls our bears 'McDonald's bears'  'cause they rummage thru garbage like our 'McDonald's 'coon'.  He said a big black bear in his hunting area - 450 square miles - is about 400 pounds.  I'd be happy with a 200+ pounder this season.

[mmhanas]

Knuxtiger4,
                    Sounds like you are from my area. The last two years the hunt happened, 2003 & 2005, the area which was opened for hunting was north of Interstate 78 and west of Interstate 287, there were almost 700 beras taken in the 6 day sesons for each respective year. The population estimate for this area is around 3400 bears, which was a study done the last few years by East Stroudsburg University, which is in neighboring Pennsylvannia. THey are BIG, I hunted with my buddy on the second day of 2005, we had fresh snow the night before,   picked up a track about 6:30 am, and jumped a good size male, which my buddy was able to harvest. The skull went over 21" and it dressed at #481lbs, weighed at the fish and game checkpoint in WestMilford, NJ. Took us 4 hours to get it out of the woods with 4 of us.

[Porter]

I would need to bring my backhoe on that hunt, or atleast stop by the home depot and get some dozen extra hands..  screw dragging that thing.  when they are that big would you lose alot of hair dragging the bear out?

Knuxtiger4,
                    Sounds like you are from my area. The last two years the hunt happened, 2003 & 2005, the area which was opened for hunting was north of Interstate 78 and west of Interstate 287, there were almost 700 beras taken in the 6 day sesons for each respective year. The population estimate for this area is around 3400 bears, which was a study done the last few years by East Stroudsburg University, which is in neighboring Pennsylvannia. THey are BIG, I hunted with my buddy on the second day of 2005, we had fresh snow the night before,   picked up a track about 6:30 am, and jumped a good size male, which my buddy was able to harvest. The skull went over 21" and it dressed at #481lbs, weighed at the fish and game checkpoint in WestMilford, NJ. Took us 4 hours to get it out of the woods with 4 of us.

[Artie mags]

I was invited to hunt a piece of property in Sussex this year that one that will go 600 plus lbs!!Can't wait.If I get him I will be doing a lifesize mount

[bmdakk (Bryan)]

Id love to have my hounds on his trail. what a bruiser.

[Bowkill]

Id love to have my hounds on his trail. what a bruiser.

I shouldn't say this because every time i see a bear run it blows my mind how quick and far they can move, and I've seen some big grizz do the same, but I just can't imagine a 600lb black going to far before going up a tree to rest, I think it might be a short hunt that way?

[bmdakk (Bryan)]

Id love to have my hounds on his trail. what a bruiser.

I shouldn't say this because every time i see a bear run it blows my mind how quick and far they can move, and I've seen some big grizz do the same, but I just can't imagine a 600lb black going to far before going up a tree to rest, I think it might be a short hunt that way?

short maybe for the dogs, a bear that big will just bay up and swat the dogs, the big ones seldom go up a tree.

[Bowkill]

makes sense it would be hard to pull 600 lbs up a tree