A biiiiiig bear!

[Buoyant Babe]

UNBELIEVABLE

The following 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. 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 bear's stomach, the Fish and Wildlife Commission established the bear had killed at least two humans in the past 72 hours.

The US Forest Service, backtracking from where the bear had originated, found a hiker's 38-caliber pistol emptied. Not far from the pistol were 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 calibre 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.


Picture of very Big Bear

Picture of Bears massive paw

I've removed the last picture now!!!

[Gareth Burrows]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bearhunt.asp

sorry, not a world record bear, just a very large one, and not even a man-eater, just one unlucky enough to be near a pair of hunters. Although probably human remains in the last picture, nothing to do with the bear, just a picture that has been associated with the rumour.

snopes is a terrible website eh, all it does is encourage you to piss on people's bonfires. Hey ho.

[SoggyFox]

Jeeeeeeeeeezus, its a crying shame he had to shoot the bear but put in the same situation i'd unfortunately probably do the same. That things fookin massize, thats a real pant filler.

I'm sometimes so glad to live in this fair country where the worst we can expect is an attack from next doors moggy if we accidentally stand on it.

[SoggyFox]

Originally Posted by Garf

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bearhunt.asp

sorry, not a world record bear, just a very large one, and not even a man-eater, just one unlucky enough to be near a pair of hunters. Although probably human remains in the last picture, nothing to do with the bear, just a picture that has been associated with the rumour.

snopes is a terrible website eh, all it does is encourage you to piss on people's bonfires. Hey ho.

If you read the report on snoops its bad enough,

[balbrigganbloke]

http://www.teamnatural.com/modules.p...view_photo.php
Look at these fools they deserve everything they get

[And]

Can you please edit your post to include links to the pictures, rather than the pictures themselves, otherwise my inbox will be full of reported posts. Its not really suitable for family viewing dontcha think?

You have 5 mins

Andy

[Gareth Burrows]

fink I'll steer clear of And today, he's obviously got his admin hat on

[GLOC]

Originally Posted by balbrigganbloke

http://www.teamnatural.com/modules.p...view_photo.php
Look at these fools they deserve everything they get

Seen this link before. Yes, they deserved everything they got. Just a shame the lion got it in the end.

I once worked with an USAF pilot who used to go bow-hunting deer in Florida. His argument was that hunting with a rifle and scope was a piss of piss and anyone could do it, hunting with a bow took a lot of skill and he only let fly when he was guaranteed a kill. Not my 'game', but it was his, and I appreciated his honesty in the skill required to hunt 'the old fashioned way'.

[eddy]

Originally Posted by balbrigganbloke

http://www.teamnatural.com/modules.p...view_photo.php
Look at these fools they deserve everything they get

Stupid mother hubbards!

[Rod]

No, And is right, the pictures are a bit grizzly.