Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
[Re: MARSUS]
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10/31/2011 2:20 AM
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I am sure it will make a gorgeous full body mount!
"If you are going to go through all the trouble to put a hole in something, why not make it a big one?"
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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10/31/2011 11:58 AM
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Rick
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Congratulations on an awesome hunt. Thanks for sharing with us your experience. You will have to post pics when the mount is complete.
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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10/31/2011 12:15 PM
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Thanks again for the congrats Lady and Gentlemen!!! I will definitely share photos of the mount with you when it is completed. I am thinking about a pose similar to this: What do ya'll think?
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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10/31/2011 1:08 PM
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Whitworth
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I love it! I prefer when they are not in a standing pose which seems quite popular.
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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10/31/2011 6:53 PM
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MARSUS
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is very natural and represents the strength and beauty fair of your Alaskan brown bear-
Last edited by MARSUS; 10/31/2011 6:55 PM.
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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10/31/2011 7:21 PM
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Darrel H, that would look great. It looks like your bear had an extremely nice coat for an old boar.I have seen many pictures of brown bears that their hide looks pretty beat up
"If you are going to go through all the trouble to put a hole in something, why not make it a big one?"
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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11/01/2011 5:37 PM
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wyote
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WTG and Congrats Darrell!
That is one BIG bear!
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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11/01/2011 6:24 PM
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truly awesome great story and shooting !!!!!!!
shoot it if its still coming shot it again!!!
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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11/01/2011 11:40 PM
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Great story....SUPER bear.Congrats
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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11/02/2011 12:23 AM
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Darrell, I have both a black bear and a brown bear mounted in a fashion very similar to the example you've shown. I think that one foot on a rock, and one paw raised, with a slight turn of the head, as shown, is the best universal mount for a bear.
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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11/22/2011 5:39 AM
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That is a great story and photos and an awesome bear!! You need to send this in to a magazine and have it published.
This is the kind of hunt that I dream of doing someday, hopefully I will get to before I die.
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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11/22/2011 11:42 AM
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That is a great story and photos and an awesome bear!! You need to send this in to a magazine and have it published.
This is the kind of hunt that I dream of doing someday, hopefully I will get to before I die. Already done.......
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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10/20/2012 8:55 PM
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Finally, one year later I got to bring my brown bear home today.
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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10/20/2012 10:07 PM
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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10/20/2012 10:08 PM
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Awesome Darrell! Looks great...
You shoulda dragged him into the Game lands and filmed some hunters reaction as they came up on him...Maybe hide him in a laurel thicket
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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10/21/2012 1:58 AM
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Beautiful mount, Darrell! Don't listen to Dur; it'll end up full of holes!
It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but only 3 for proper trigger squeeze.
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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10/21/2012 1:04 PM
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Awesome hunt and finished trophy.
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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10/21/2012 10:55 PM
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it turned out really nice!
"If you are going to go through all the trouble to put a hole in something, why not make it a big one?"
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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10/22/2012 12:01 AM
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Thanks guys, I appreciate it!
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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10/22/2012 12:15 AM
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Wow!!! That turned out beautiful!!!! Awesome mount!
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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10/23/2012 1:05 AM
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Excellent narrative! Thank you for sharing.
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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11/04/2012 12:04 AM
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Great mount, we have grizzly hunting about 4 hours from home by boat. my hunting partner got one this spring. put in for my limited entry hunt THIS spring. Too bad i can't hunt with a handgun in B.C. have to go up to ALASKA. congrats again. NN
THEMS APACHE OUT YONDER,SAVE THAT LAST BULLET FER YERSELF!!!
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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11/04/2012 3:02 PM
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Whitworth
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Wow, Darrell! That turned out awesome!!
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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11/05/2012 1:09 AM
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Landrum
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That's excellent. Who did the work?
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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11/05/2012 1:28 AM
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Thanks again guys, I'm very pleased with the way it turned out.
Landrum, David Harper (Harper's Taxidermy) mounted it for me. It's good to have a skilled taxidermist in the family!
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Re: My Alaskan Brown Bear Hunt
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11/05/2012 11:50 PM
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I've got two deer on the wall right here that David Harper did for me. Actually, one was for my grandfather way back in 1964. That must have been around the time Harper was starting. I also have two nice largemouths on the wall from Harper's shop.
Cool!
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