Wade Brockman with Record Book Bear Skull

Wade Brockman of Tomah makes his living as a cranberry grower. Aside from work and family, though, he says his life “revolves around hunting.”

So it should come as no surprise that Brockman was in a tree stand on his farm Nov. 28, the last day of the 2010 Wisconsin gun deer season.

He didn’t see a deer, didn’t fire a shot. But he did bring home a trophy that day, one that is now officially of historic proportions.

While Brockman hunted out the deer season, a worker combined corn on another part of the 800-acre farm.

The worker found a large, dead animal in the field and reported it to Brockman.

Considering Monroe County has lots of cows but relatively few bears, “you know what I was thinking,” said Brockman, 35.

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Source:  By Paul A. Smith of the Journal Sentinel
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