MUST SEE - World Class Grizzly!
10-24-2003, 09:36 AM
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MUST SEE - World Class Grizzly!
Don' t know if you guys have already seen this or not, but I figured I' d post it anyway.
The Story:
The following pictures are of a guy who works for the Forest Service in Alaska. He was out deer hunting.
A large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away.
The guy unloaded his Semi-automatic rifle into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him.
The big bear was still alive so he reloaded and capped it in the head.
The bear was over one thousand six hundred pounds. It stood 12' 6" high at the shoulder, 14' to the top of his head. It' s the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world. Of course, the game department did not let
him keep it. It will be mounted and put on display at the Anchorage airport
(to remind tourist' s of the risks involved when in the wild).
Think about this - you would be level with the bear' s belly button
when he stood upright, the bear would look you in the eye when it walked on
all fours! To give additional perspective, consider that this bear
standing on its hind legs, could walk up to an average single story house
and look over the roof.
The bear had killed at least two people. His last meal was the unlucky nature buff in the attachment Tedgrizz3.jpg above. The Forest Service found the hiker' s 38-caliber pistol emptied. Although the hiker fired six shots and managed to hit the grizzly with four shots (they ultimately found four 38 caliber slugs along with seven 7mm slugs inside the bear' s carcase) it only wounded the bear - and probably angered it.
The bear killed the hiker an estimated three days prior to the bear' s own death by the gun of the Forest Service worker.
The Story:
The following pictures are of a guy who works for the Forest Service in Alaska. He was out deer hunting.
A large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away.
The guy unloaded his Semi-automatic rifle into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him.
The big bear was still alive so he reloaded and capped it in the head.
The bear was over one thousand six hundred pounds. It stood 12' 6" high at the shoulder, 14' to the top of his head. It' s the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world. Of course, the game department did not let
him keep it. It will be mounted and put on display at the Anchorage airport
(to remind tourist' s of the risks involved when in the wild).
Think about this - you would be level with the bear' s belly button
when he stood upright, the bear would look you in the eye when it walked on
all fours! To give additional perspective, consider that this bear
standing on its hind legs, could walk up to an average single story house
and look over the roof.
The bear had killed at least two people. His last meal was the unlucky nature buff in the attachment Tedgrizz3.jpg above. The Forest Service found the hiker' s 38-caliber pistol emptied. Although the hiker fired six shots and managed to hit the grizzly with four shots (they ultimately found four 38 caliber slugs along with seven 7mm slugs inside the bear' s carcase) it only wounded the bear - and probably angered it.
The bear killed the hiker an estimated three days prior to the bear' s own death by the gun of the Forest Service worker.
10-24-2003, 09:44 AM
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RE: MUST SEE - World Class Grizzly!
Big bear,but the story isn' t exactly true.
Check out the link
http://www.snopes.com/photos/bearhunt.asp#origins
Check out the link
http://www.snopes.com/photos/bearhunt.asp#origins
10-24-2003, 09:55 AM
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RE: MUST SEE - World Class Grizzly!
Let me make a disclaimer: I' m not saying that the story is true....it' s just the story that was sent to me. I am more impressed with the size of the bear than the story.
10-24-2003, 10:18 AM
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RE: MUST SEE - World Class Grizzly!
Adams, Ive seen the picture the bear above didn' t kill him in fact the hiker was killed later. Like I said check the link, Actually the guy who originally shot it posted here.
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Although this is a genuine photograph of human remains gnawed by one or more animals, it has nothing to do with the bear pictured above. This photograph comes from a completely different source and was only tacked on as an addendum to the bear story after both had been circulating independently for over a year.
The pictures of the November 2001 shooting became confused with a later account of a killing, also in Alaska, of another very large bear. This incident, as described by the Associated Press, took place on 21 April 2002 in Anchorage
