HuntingNut » News » 9 Year Old Girl Takes Record Book Brown Bear

Home • Community Forums • Photo Albums • Register

Modules

• Home - Top 30
• Treasury
• Tell a Friend

Articles: Submit New
• Articles: Topics
• Contact Us
• Community Forums

Members List
• Photo Albums
• PointBlank Ballistics
• PointBlank Online
• Privacy Policy
• Private Messages

Reloading Database
• State F&G Agencies
• Statistics
• Your Account

User Info

Welcome Anonymous

(Register)

Membership:

Latest: patrad69

New Today: 0

New Yesterday: 0

Overall: 13133

People Online:

Members: 0

Visitors: 162

BOT: 1

Total: 163

Who Is Where:

Visitors:
01: Forums
02: Forums
03: Forums
04: Forums
05: Forums
06: Forums
07: Photo Albums
08: Forums
09: Forums
10: Forums
11: Forums
12: Forums
13: Photo Albums
14: Forums
15: Forums
16: Forums
17: Forums
18: Photo Albums
19: Forums
20: Home
21: Photo Albums
22: Home
23: Your Account
24: Home
25: Home
26: Forums
27: Photo Albums
28: Photo Albums
29: Forums
30: Forums
31: Home
32: Home
33: Home
34: Your Account
35: Your Account
36: Forums
37: Forums
38: Forums
39: Forums
40: Forums
41: Home
42: Forums
43: Photo Albums
44: Home
45: Forums
46: Forums
47: Photo Albums
48: Forums
49: Forums
50: Home
51: Forums
52: Your Account
53: Home
54: Forums
55: Home
56: Forums
57: Forums
58: Your Account
59: Home
60: Photo Albums
61: Forums
62: Forums
63: Forums
64: Forums
65: Forums
66: Forums
67: Home
68: Photo Albums
69: Forums
70: Photo Albums
71: Photo Albums
72: Forums
73: Home
74: Photo Albums
75: Photo Albums
76: Forums
77: Forums
78: Forums
79: Your Account
80: Forums
81: Home
82: Home
83: Forums
84: Your Account
85: Your Account
86: Your Account
87: Forums
88: Forums
89: Home
90: Forums
91: Forums
92: Forums
93: Forums
94: Forums
95: Forums
96: Forums
97: Forums
98: Forums
99: Home
100: Forums
101: Forums
102: Forums
103: Forums
104: Forums
105: Forums
106: Forums
107: Forums
108: Forums
109: Forums
110: Home
111: Photo Albums
112: Forums
113: Forums
114: News
115: Photo Albums
116: Photo Albums
117: Home
118: Home
119: Your Account
120: Forums
121: Forums
122: Home
123: Forums
124: Photo Albums
125: Forums
126: Photo Albums
127: Photo Albums
128: Forums
129: Home
130: Forums
131: Forums
132: Forums
133: Photo Albums
134: Your Account
135: Forums
136: Forums
137: Forums
138: Forums
139: Home
140: Home
141: Forums
142: Forums
143: Forums
144: Your Account
145: Photo Albums
146: Photo Albums
147: Forums
148: Forums
149: Forums
150: Home
151: Photo Albums
152: Photo Albums
153: Your Account
154: Forums
155: Home
156: Home
157: Forums
158: Home
159: Photo Albums
160: Forums
161: Forums
162: Forums

BOT:
01: Your Account

Staff Online:

No staff members are online!

Coppermine Stats

Photo Albums

• Albums: 308
• Pictures: 2455
  · Views: 824574
  · Votes: 1316
  · Comments: 85

9 Year Old Girl Takes Record Book Brown Bear

If the "biggest bear" is determined as a ratio of the size of the bear to the size of the hunter, Fern Spaulding-Rivers is probably setting records that will never be broken. The 10 year-old from Talkeetna, Alaska has already harvested great trophies of most of Alaska's major game species, and she is a handloading fanatic as well. Fern's larger caliber rifles have a muzzle brake and a recoil pad and she also wears a custom-made padded shooting vest from McCoy Shooting Armor to help her withstand big bore recoil. Fern was carrying her Remington 700 Stainless chambered in .375 H&H while brown bear hunting on the Alaskan Peninsula with her father and mother on May 10th, 2006 (when she was 9 years old).

As the day progressed she and her father saw 11 bears. At one point, they were charged by a pack of wolves, and they had to dispatch some with the nearest at only 8 paces! Later, they spotted a big bruin in a gully at 32 yards. With all the excitement of the day beginning to show, Fern asked Larry to hold her legs steady while she shot because her knees were shaking. Fern rolled the bear with her first shot, but the bruin regained it's footing and tore off across the tundra. Shooting again from a prone position, Fern dropped the behemoth for good with a second 270 grain Barnes Triple-shock at 112 yards. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service measured the bear's hide at 11'4" from nose to tail. The skull has been officially scored at 29 1/16" Boone and Crockett.

What does Fern think of bear hunting? "Do you know how big an 11' bear looks at 30 yds? It's kinda scary! They are about the size of a Volkswagen bus and when they swing their head to look your way they remind you of a T-Rex in Jurassic Park!" Her trophy brown bear now puts her in an elite class. Fern is a tremendous example to young hunters everywhere, and she is a great hunter regardless of her age.

Amazing!

Posted by DallanC on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 (23:46:01) (17240 reads) [ Administration ]