The below story is an e-mail I had sent to me from some friends I can't confirm any information in the below story or the authenticity of the photographs....

WARNING GRAPHIC ADULT CONTENT BEOND THIS POINT YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

"The following pictures are of a guy who works for the Forest Service in
Alaska. He was out deer hunting when a very, very large,
world-record-sized Grizzly charged him from about 50 yards away. The
guy unloaded a 7mm Magnum Semi-automatic into the bear and dropped it,
finally, when it was only a few feet away. The monster was still alive,
so he reloaded and capped it in the head. The Grizzly weighed over one
thousand, six hundred pounds, was 12'6" high at the shoulder, 14' to
the top of his head. It was 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 it. You
would be at eye level with the bear's belly button when he stood, and
he would look you in the eye when walking on all fours. This bear,
standing on its hind legs, could walk up to the average single story
house and look out over its roof .... The bear had killed - and< /SPAN>
partially devoured - 2 other people before running into our hero. His
last meal was a man on a nature hike. The Forest Service found that
poor fellow's 38-caliber near his partially-devoured corpse, emptied.
He'd shot 6-times and hit the grizzly 4 (they found seven 7mm slugs and
four 38 caliber slugs in him) but obviously only wounded him since that
incident was estimated to have occurred about 3 days prior to the bear's
death at the hands of the Forest Service man."







I TOLD YOU IT WAS ROUGH. Sorry about the pecker I didn't photoshop blurr it out.

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This has circulated before and according to snopes.com is a falsified tale. It is still a very big bear!

I have no doupt the tale is false but the pictures is what shook me up. Mainly the paw and the body.

I remember this from years ago. In fact, I may have posted it back in 2004 as well when it was new to me. The bear is real and the hunter and the bear (mounted) were on a Discovery show about 2 years ago. The dead guy was eaten by dogs if I recall.

I believe this is a story combined from two different incidents. The bear was shot by a hunter, and the victim was in fact eaten by a bear but the two events are unrelated.

I remember getting the bear photo years ago and the bear was described as 16 feet tall! He was actually 10'6".

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

http://urbanlegends.about.com/...end%5Fadvisory.shtml

http://urbanlegends.about.com/.../bl-grizzlybear5.htm

+1 on the dogs. saw it at least 2-3 years ago.

still a damn big bear
I don't see how that guy has such a bland expression on his face.

I think the body is that of Timothy Treadwell from a few years back....Damm, those liberals taste good!

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Originally posted by Wolfgar:
Damm, those liberals taste good!

Not through personal experience but I've heard they are grainy and slimy.

Ken....

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would be at eye level with the bear's belly button when he stood

Hmmm, I didn;t know that bears had belly buttons! Must be posted by one of those damn liberals who don't know squat about wildlife...
Peter.

Being mammals, they are born with umbilical cords, and have belly buttons right in front of the pecker. Not that I spend much time looking around bear peckers.

What I find amazing about this story is not the BEAR story, but it being just another example the outright lying and bull shit that we are being exposed to on a daily basis in this World. Moreover, the internet seems to be amplying human dishonesty, especially when anonymity is guaranteed. AIU

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Originally posted by Peter:

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would be at eye level with the bear's belly button when he stood

Hmmm, I didn;t know that bears had belly buttons! Must be posted by one of those damn liberals who don't know squat about wildlife...
Peter.

Must have been posted by one of those conservatives who likes to blame everything on liberals.

1. Open mouth
2. Insert foot

Careful Your ignorance is showing.

picture of the body on the net before treadwell went down the bears gullet.

Anybody got that Whelen-Garand handy?

Damn, don't care what the story is. That's one big bear. Ursa Majoris for sure.