I am sure it will make a gorgeous full body mount!

Congratulations on an awesome hunt. Thanks for sharing with us your experience. You will have to post pics when the mount is complete.

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?

I love it! I prefer when they are not in a standing pose which seems quite popular.

is very natural and represents the strength and beauty fair of your Alaskan brown bear-

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

WTG and Congrats Darrell!

That is one BIG bear!

truly awesome great story and shooting !!!!!!!

Great story....SUPER bear.Congrats

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.

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.......

Finally, one year later I got to bring my brown bear home today.

The moving crew:

Beautiful mount!

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

Beautiful mount, Darrell! Don't listen to Dur; it'll end up full of holes!

Awesome hunt and finished trophy.

it turned out really nice!

Thanks guys, I appreciate it!

Wow!!! That turned out beautiful!!!! Awesome mount!

Excellent narrative! Thank you for sharing.

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

Wow, Darrell! That turned out awesome!!

That's excellent. Who did the work?

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!

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!