17 July 2005, 17:04
sonofagunWorld record bear in Alaska?
I got an email about this (shot by a F & G officer) recently - has it been mentioned on these forums anywhere??
Here's the email I got (i don't know about the pics) a couple weeks ago:
BEAR STORY
The downloaded pictures are of a man 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 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 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 (the Service ultimately found four 38 caliber slugs along with twelve 7 mm 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.
17 July 2005, 18:48
phurley5sonofagun ----- We can't wait for the picture, I think we know what it will be. Sounds like a new story that will show the same picture we have seen for some years now. Who did you get the E-Mail from and request the picture so we can draw our own conclusions.
Good shooting.
17 July 2005, 21:39
stubblejumperThis story just keeps appearing over and over,and every time,the bear gets larger.
IF Pete and
REPEAT were sittin on a fence and Pete fell off, who's left?
REPEATIF Pete and
REPEAT were sittin on a fence and Pete fell off, who's left?
REPEAT 
18 July 2005, 01:46
375hnhYes, I believe it has been mentioned
18 July 2005, 01:48
Magnum61I bet this it is the same thing again, but we all have to admit when we saw this for the first time it was pretty incredible.
18 July 2005, 04:39
sonofagunAs if there ain't enuff B.S. in the world.
Cripe!
19 July 2005, 09:14
cal30 1906Same story
But still a big son of bitch no matter the camera angle
19 July 2005, 22:44
Russell E. Taylorquote:
Originally posted by sonofagun:
I got an email about this (shot by a F & G officer) recently - has it been mentioned on these forums anywhere??
Here's the email I got (i don't know about the pics) a couple weeks ago:
BEAR STORY
The downloaded pictures are of a man 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 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 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 (the Service ultimately found four 38 caliber slugs along with twelve 7 mm 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.
Oh for the love of God. Will this myth/legend ever DIE?!!!
"A big bear" was killed. After that, most everything else is bull ca-ca. People were sending me this story when I was in Iraq in 2003, for Pete's sake. By then, the bear was something like 16 feet tall and weight a ton.
Russ
19 July 2005, 22:55
Lhook7If this is the bear I am thinking of there is some information on it at Boone & Crockett's Trophy Watch. See the link below for their explaination.
http://www.boone-crockett.org/news/trophyWatch_detail.a...90-92CD-8270EBDE612120 July 2005, 06:23
sonofagunThat's the one - thanks for the clarification.