My 12 year old daughter, Jesse, shot an absolute CRANKER yesterday for her first big game animal. We have hunted hard since mid April and have seen over 75 bears thus far this spring. Many many runts, numerous sows and cubs and a few possible shooters. We've had several stalks that just didn't work in our favour. Finally yesterday we found the right bear and Jesse was able to drop the monster with her Model 99 300 Savage at 25 yards. The bear measures 7 foot from nose to tail (skin off with skull in, no stretching) and the skull green scores 18 15/16. Seems May 30th is the magical day for monster bruins. My son, Cody, whacked a 7 footer last year on the same day.
