Cool old picture of a working double in Alaska

[Scott CWO]

that information is solid gold! not sure about the pad in inches plus two for a squared bear, your thoughts?

Yeah I’m kind of in between. I go with plus 1.5. I haven’t measured pads on dead bears for a while but will start doing it again. The last one I measured was a bit over 8” and the bear squared 9’10”. The guy in the picture is 6’5” for reference. It was this bear.