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| Hazael |
 Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:41 pm |
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The downloaded pictures are of a man who works for the US Forest Service in Alaska and his trophy bear (killed in self defense).
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He was out deer hunting last week when a large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy emptied his 7mm Magnum 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 tourists 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 including a missing hiker.
The US Forest Service, backtracking from where the bear had originated, found the 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 (the Service 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 immensely.
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 navel 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. |
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| Merrick_Hale |
| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:09 am |
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| Anonymous Prodigy |
| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:47 pm |
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| Wow, that’s pretty interesting. From my point of view, it looks like the bear was real, but the facts on the bear’s size and weight were fibbed about. |
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| Merrick_Hale |
| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:11 pm |
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Yeah the bear in the pictures was actually shot. However it wasn’t necessarily in self defense as the bear may not have been aware of the hunters (it certainly wasn’t charging them), the type of gun was different (if I’m not mistaken), and the claim that the bear was a man eater were false.
So, while there is a bit of truth, it was an abnormally large Brown Bear (not Grizzly) that was killed, many of the "facts" of the story were just plain wrong. |
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| Felipe Musco |
| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:16 pm |
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| I wouldn’t even dream about what you’re talking. Hunting in Brasil is forbidden, and we don’t have bears ’round here. |
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| sickofpalantirs |
| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 12:05 pm |
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nice too bad it didn’t really happen plus it happened in 2004.
boy this thing became a mess |
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| physcosick |
| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 12:26 pm |
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Felipe Musco wrote: I wouldn’t even dream about what you’re talking. Hunting in Brasil is forbidden, and we don’t have bears ’round here. |
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| Hazael |
| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:41 pm |
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Felipe Musco wrote: I wouldn’t even dream about what you’re talking. Hunting in Brasil is forbidden, and we don’t have bears ’round here.
My neighbor across the street just shot a deer and a bear (estimated 300lbs) last night on his property. I heard the shots. Only two of em  |
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| fingolfin |
| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 5:21 pm |
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Man, that’s scary, I would just freak and run away...but then the bear would just attack me if I ran away  I’m syaing inside tonight. |
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| Anonymous Prodigy |
| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 5:37 pm |
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| Good idea....the National Bears Out To Kill Cobra Cards Members Festival runs until Monday in Iowa. |
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