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Originally Posted by Chaoticelk
I personally would t shoot a bear under 7 feet. Not hard to find a bear in Alberta least going for 7 plus is a challenge. 6.5 plus is a good bear none the less.
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True 7ft nose to tail on the round exists but I would love to see anyone consistently take bears that size or even 6’6.
If you are measuring your beard on the round from tip of nose to tail I can confidently say a 7ft bear is not easy to come by. 6’5 is not easy to come by either. Put a tape on a lot of bears over the years between hunting and working in a BC taxidermist shop for a while. A shop that took in bears from outfitters well known for big bears and took in 200+ bears a year. Most bears did not break 6ft a true 7ft bear was rare and most years a bear under 6’6 was the biggest
We joked all the time when a customer told us the size of a bear they were bringing in that it would be a foot shorter and a hundred pounds lighter. It played true majority of times
Average bear you see in the bush is 5ft give or take 4 inches.
Measured lots of bears in the 5’9 to 6’2 that were 19”+ skulls