a buddy wanted one to eat, another wanted a skull, and have too many on that piece of property, just regulating the population. Its a big sow, their small head does not make attractive mounts. sent a 340# male off to be made into a rug last year.
The 2nd pic was my view of the bear from 7:50 till 2:30 when it finally got up and walked to an opening, the 135 Berger classic hunter done an awesome job at 2755 fps from my 6.5 creed AR10, the shot was 388 yards. Had a 50 cent piece sized exit
check out the Arken SH4J 6x24x50 318.00 bucks delivered from Amazon, watch the tracking video on the amazon page. also a youtube video on a comparison with some other higher priced scopes...
I do not. the brass do fine with starting loads, but once you load a top level load every case fired is toast. Look at the shoulder on the right case, its still rounded, not as sharp as the hornady. That concerns me, the front end of the case is not fully formed but the casehead is expanded a bunch