It also was a pickup, in sanpete county, utah, in 1975. These are the biggest grizzly bear kills in the record books. North carolina grows big black bears, much bigger than the black bears in canada. The club is dedicated to preserving our hunting heritage, scoring and keeping.
For information on joining the pope and young club, please contact. Your accomplishment is a testament to the success of utahs wildlife conservation system and part of big game hunting history. Michigan hunter tags boone and crockettclass black bear. Harrisburg at more than 700 pounds, it moved across the leaf litter of a regenerating mountaintop clearcut as quiet as a rabbit running across a lawn.
View details view top 10 view details black bear year taken. Twelve of the top 25 black bears in the record book. Nwtf wild turkey records national wild turkey federation. Taken in box elder county, utah this giant of a muley made the rounds of the western. The utah big game records committee reserves the right to reexamine and remeasure a trophy at its discretion.
In order to be entered into the pope and young records, the game animal must be taken with a bow and arrow. Whitepages people search is the most trusted directory. The bears on prince of wales were recently reclassified by safari club international as coastal bears or island black bear due to their massive size. Jan 05, 2017 episode 1 grizzly bear south texas reapers. Official scores are of dry skulls, not green skulls. In first and foremost honoring the animal, each record book listing also recognizes. New velvet nontypical world record mule deer gohunt. He was bowhunting for mule deer in the henry mountains of utah and took a massive mule deer. For example, if the skull length measures 11 and 216 inches, you would enter 11 216 in the space provided. Main search page for all online name indexes for historical records at the utah state archives. Apr, 2018 hunting from ground level on her illinois farm, she killed 10 pope and young record book bucks in her first 18 years as a bowhunter. September 1, 2015 is a day that forever will change jeff cisneros life. Craig resident nabs 703pound bear, possible state record.
The 4 largest bears ever taken by hunters outdoorhub. Drying period official measurements cannot be taken until the antlers, horns, skulls, or tusks have air dried at normal room temperature for at least 60 days after the animal was killed. Bear mountain series by kelex goodreads share book. The bruins skull scored 23 916 inches, making it the biggest bear ever taken by a hunter.
There are more record book black bear entries from here than the rest of north america. Measurements are taken with calipers or by using parallel perpendiculars, to the nearest onesixteenth of an inch. Jun 11, 2012 robert christian shot this massive black bear in eastern pennsylvania. Sep 29, 2017 while a small number of grizzly bears live in the continental united states, they are much more common in alaska and western canada. If you just look directly at the records, you might find the data slightly different than this list. New jersey black bear is new pope and young world record. Saxton pope and arthur young have been honored as the namesakes of the pope and young club, an organization dedicated to bowhunting which continues today and includes its own world record book for north american game. As per fish and game entry rules, the boone and crockett entry will be used in the idaho big game records. Another record book black bear taken in pennsylvania new state record black bear taken in fayette county by joe kosack, wildlife conservation education specialist pennsylvania game commission. The objectives of the program include the following. No trophy will be considered which has been altered in any way from its natural state. The hibernating american black bear does not display the same rate of muscle and bone atrophy relative to other nonhibernatory animals that are subject to long periods of inactivity due to ailment or old age.
The utah black bear has been a protected species since 1967. A black bear killed by jeff melillos in new jersey during the 2019 hunting season has been certified as a bowhunting world record by the pope. Black bear hunting is popular across the united states and canada. Just choosing a western state is quite a daunting task. Billys north carolina record black bear had an official weight of 647 pounds and was estimated to be nine years, nine months old. Official scoring system for bowhunting north american big. Alaska brown bear black bear grizzly bear polar bear bison barren ground caribou. In some circumstances the arizona state record score may differ from the pope and young world record score due to the fact that in some instances it may take more than. Utah black bear 2007 state of utah proclamation of the wildlife board for taking black bear 2007 17 nonresident means a person who does not qualify as a resident. The only exceptions are the boone and crockett club, pope and young club, the longhunter society. American elk nontypical american elk typical bighorn sheep bison black bear grizzly bear mountain lion mule deer nontypical mule deer typical pronghorn antelope rocky mountain goat whitetail deer nontypical whitetail deer typical wyoming shiras moose.
The record bruin was shot on a dog hunt in hyde county, nc, a hotbed for big bears in the state. The club also maintains the universally recognized repository for the records and statistics on north american big game animals harvested with the bow and arrow. The official score after the 60 day drying period is 282 18 gross and 272 6. Pope and young club names new worldrecord black bear february 14, 2020 staff and news reports on feb. At one time, black bears were found in all forested areas of north america from alaska down to mexico. These are the biggest black bear kills by hunters in the record books. The black bear is the only species of bear that lives in utah. The final green measurement on the skull was 7 316 inches wide and 11 916 inches long. Jun 07, 2017 while i didnt know it at the time, id just tagged the first whitetail buck with typical antlers large enough to qualify for the pope and young club records. New potential world record black bear shot in pennsylvania. Utah moose hunting ut shiras moose hunting idaho trophy moose. Utah moose hunting seasons are open september 12 to 22 and october 3 to 25 for any legal weapon. Pope and young club, box 548, chatfield, mn 55923, 5078674144.
Chatfield, mn four new worlds records were officially recognized during the pope and young clubs 26th biennial convention and awards banquet in denver. Rominger, phd, bighorn sheep biologist is an official boone and crockett club measurer. Pope and young club announces 2020 conservation hunt drawing. View phone numbers, addresses, public records, background check reports and possible arrest records for jennifer pope in utah ut. The utah big game records program is designed for the establishment and operation of a comprehensive record keeping program for wildlife species native and introduced in the state of utah. Adding these two gave it a final green score of 18 and 34 inches. Record book black bear taken in pa 2005 big game hunt. In first and foremost honoring the animal, each record book listing also recognizes a bowhunting achievement and celebrates all the times and efforts involved that culminated in that moment. This years hunt is a 10day allinclusive canadian safari from savage encounters.
Pope and young is proud to announce our 2020 conservation hunt drawing. Though this bull will not make the record book, the official score sheet will be kept on file by the boone and crockett club. As the most recent bowhunting campaign starts to fade into the rearview mirror, it seems readily apparent that the month of october 2019 was a good month to be in the woods with a bow in hand. Black bear world record certified by pope and young club. New jersey bowhunter jeff melillo killed this black bear the new pope and young world record on october 14, 2019. Users will be able to search the entire records program database of over 115,000 record book entries and millions of data points.
It will be a valuable research and scouting tool available at your fingertips. Alaska brown bear black bear grizzly bear polar bear bison barren. The top 40 typical and nontypical mule deer of all time outdoor. The 703pound male black bear kendall shot on that day in the wilson creek area of moffat county could be a state record, he said. Jeff melillos massive bear scored 23516 and is now the largest bowharvested black bear in north america. We put together a gallery of the highest scoring typical and nontypical mule deer to ever be entered into the boone and crockett record books. Trophies need to be taken in the respective hunting season for that years competition. Jeff melillos new pope and young world record black bear would also. Recognize outstanding trophies in size and symmetry taken by sportsmen. Recordkeeping began in fall 1982 and now we have more than 27,000 records in our database. In the case of these pending world records, the panel score became the animals official score. Coming just days after a new whitetail world record was announced, the boone and crockett club and pope and young club announced that a bull from montana taken on public land during the 2016 bow.
There is no entry fee required for acceptance in the utah big game records program. Jennifer pope in utah ut 7 records found whitepages. Pope and young club names new worldrecord black bear. Ditto for arizona, nevada, montana, utah and perhaps even new mexico for elk. Predators only kill the sick, weak and young, right. Nwtfs wild turkey records program offers nwtf members a way to register any legally harvested wild turkey, taken anywhere in the world. The bia record book committee accepts velvet antlered entries with a 2 12% deduction in score, and lists them along with hardhorned entries. Your trophys official utah big game awards certificate includes category, score, name, location and the awards period. The worldrecord black bear scored 23 1016 inches, according to boone and crockett records. A hibernating american black bear loses approximately half the muscular strength compared to that of a wellnourished, inactive human.
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