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Ontario Black Bear

MountNMan

Junior Member
Chance Bear.jpg

Customer Ontario Black Bear.
 

giles

Cull buck specialist
Supporting Member
Those ears look HUGE! Was it a small bear? Take no offense, but I'd be pissed if my bear came back with those ears. That's how we gauged trophy status, the smaller they were the better the bear. Be like slapping 100" rack on a 180" deer in my book.
 

Quantum673

Black Hat Cajun
Supporting Member
Those ears look HUGE! Was it a small bear? Take no offense, but I'd be pissed if my bear came back with those ears. That's how we gauged trophy status, the smaller they were the better the bear. Be like slapping 100" rack on a 180" deer in my book.
Looks like a smaller bear to me.
 

MountNMan

Junior Member
Those ears look HUGE! Was it a small bear? Take no offense, but I'd be pissed if my bear came back with those ears. That's how we gauged trophy status, the smaller they were the better the bear. Be like slapping 100" rack on a 180" deer in my book.

No offense taken, I didn't shoot it, I just mounted it. You shouldn't be pissed if the bear you shoot comes back as what it was on the hoof. If you take a small bear, then you get back a small bear, not a grizzly. Same with people who shoot a 2year old buck with a 17" neck and want to get back a deer with a 23" swelled up neck. Not going to happen. What you shoot is what you get back. This fellow had shot a few bigger bears in the past, and knew that this was a smaller one. The only way to fix this is, don't shoot what you would consider an inferior animal.
 

giles

Cull buck specialist
Supporting Member
No offense taken, I didn't shoot it, I just mounted it. You shouldn't be pissed if the bear you shoot comes back as what it was on the hoof. If you take a small bear, then you get back a small bear, not a grizzly. Same with people who shoot a 2year old buck with a 17" neck and want to get back a deer with a 23" swelled up neck. Not going to happen. What you shoot is what you get back. This fellow had shot a few bigger bears in the past, and knew that this was a smaller one. The only way to fix this is, don't shoot what you would consider an inferior animal.

I understand that aspect. I've never seen one with that kind of nose either, is that a snorting pose or something? Has gentle eyes like a pet. Are those also what it looked like on the paw? Interesting looking bear.
 

MountNMan

Junior Member
Thanks for noticing. The nose is a reproduction-competition nose, with full inner nose detail. Not the real nose stuffed full of clay that I see in a lot of bear mounts. It is the same size as the real nose that was removed.The paws are normal, relaxed as was the pose, created by McKenzie Taxidermy Supply.
 
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