slslea Report This Comment Date: April 01, 2006 10:33PM
The following (first two) pictures are of a guy who works for the US Forest
Service in Alaska and his trophy bear. He was out deer hunting last week when a
large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy unloaded his
7mm Mag Semi-automatic rifle into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him.
The big bear was still alive so he reloaded and shot it several times in the
head. The bear was just over one thousand six hundred pounds (1600#). 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 Alaska Fish and Wildlife Commission did not let him keep it as a
trophy, but the bear will be stuffed and mounted, and placed on display at the
Anchorage airport (to remind tourist's of the risks involved when in the wild).
Based on the contents of the bears stomach, the Fish and Wildlife Commission
established the bear had killed at least two humans in the past 72 hours. His
last meal was the unlucky nature buff in the third picture below. The US Forest
Service, backtracking from where the bear had originated, found the hiker's
38-caliber pistol emptied. Not far from the pistol was the remains of the hiker
. The other body has not been found. Although the hiker fired six shots and
managed to hit the grizzly with four shots (they ultimately found four 38
caliber slugs along with twelve 7mm slugs inside the bear's dead body) it only
wounded the bear - and probably angered it. The bear killed the hiker an
estimated two days prior to the bear's own death by the gun of the Forest
Service worker.
Think about this - If you are an average size man; 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
particular bear, standing on its hind legs, could walk up to an average single
story house and look over the roof, or walk up to a two story house and look in
the bedroom windows
brokntoad Report This Comment Date: April 02, 2006 06:33PM
repost... do a search and find the real story.
slslea Report This Comment Date: April 03, 2006 02:31AM
A lot of pop ups on that site. There is more then one story on this bear hmmm.
brokntoad Report This Comment Date: April 03, 2006 02:39AM
your site even says that it is a hoax... go to the main page and scroll down.
brokntoad Report This Comment Date: April 03, 2006 02:40AM
funny.... it has the same link as I used.
slslea Report This Comment Date: April 03, 2006 09:31PM
Dam I thought this was a true story.
Anonomous Report This Comment Date: April 11, 2024 01:22AM
This happened in Canada, it was shot with .308 and .223 ammo. Several rounds
between them. But yanks... never admit anything interesting happens outside
their country or involving their people, they anonymize the country. I've seen
that done regards someone I went to school with. Events in the speech were only
given a location if in yankeeland.