Field judging bears thread with photo examples

What do you guys think of this one? Was watching him on Friday at about 900 yards. I definitely should have been more aggressive instead of waiting for him to feed down the mountain into range. Didn’t turn him up again the rest of the weekend.IMG_0148.jpegIMG_0147.jpeg
 
What do you guys think of this one? Was watching him on Friday at about 900 yards. I definitely should have been more aggressive instead of waiting for him to feed down the mountain into range. Didn’t turn him up again the rest of the weekend.View attachment 1062903View attachment 1062904
This is another expansion where I can’t tell if he/she is a unit or a young one. 😂
 
I keep doing the same thing and going back and forth in my head but have settled on “it looks like a big sow.”
It’s so hard to tell without being there and more angles like I said before, and it sounds like we will never know.
I have multiple videos of this bear and can screenshot quite few different angles. What angles would be helpful?
 
I had about 15 seconds between seeing my bear for the first time and it being dead on the ground and the first thing that went through my mind, other than “holy shit I finally saw my first bear and it’s running towards me”, was how small his ears looked on his head.

Unfortunately I didn’t take any good pictures in the woods, I pulled the whole crew out of the woods to help me on the opening day of deer season and was anxious to wrap it up and get them back out hunting. In hindsight I wish I had taken the few extra minutes to get some good pictures in the woods especially since I killed an 8 pt an hour prior as well.

For reference my brother is 6’ 3” and that bear weighs 475 pounds.

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Here's my 'aw shucks' bear. It was my first year bear hunting and I thought I was looking at an average bear. This thing was like the size of a large dog lol. I've learned a lot since and have passed on multiple bears in recent years.

Does anyone else have some through the spotter and then on the ground examples? I think it would be helpful to have more examples like that.
 

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Here's my 'aw shucks' bear. It was my first year bear hunting and I thought I was looking at an average bear. This thing was like the size of a large dog lol. I've learned a lot since and have passed on multiple bears in recent years.

Does anyone else have some through the spotter and then on the ground examples? I think it would be helpful to have more examples like that.
dude I’m right there with you. Going to share my on the ground from the first post and it’s the same thing. Shrink factor is real
 
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