Here is the story

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Burns Lake District News - News Trophy Grizzly posted Jun 9, 2015 at 2:00 PM Derek Blackwell from Ootsa Lake guiding drew a limited entry card this year for a grizzly. Reported to be 1550 lbs. Ok i know many of you don,t agree with this. BUT i only posted it for the sheer size of it. Please lets not get into a big debate THANKS !!!!!

Going all over the internet right now...lots of thoughts on it...big bear regardless. Looks like the dogs were Photoshopped out of the version you posted using the "clone tool"

Is that not Bart Lancaster second from the left??

I believe it is.

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Originally posted by Bryce Dillabough:
Is that not Bart Lancaster second from the left??

So this might be real?

I suspect it's a real picture of big grizz that was hunted with hounds.....not sure I buy 1500 pounds but definitely a dandy bear!

Read this on a Facebook page....sounds reasonable. "Bear is 7-800 lbs has a skull of 25 3/8 and squares out at 9' "

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Originally posted by sheephunterab:
Read this on a Facebook page....sounds reasonable. "Bear is 7-800 lbs has a skull of 25 3/8 and squares out at 9' "

That sounds better

There ain't no 1550 pound interior grizzly. Still a big bear though. Regards, Bill

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Originally posted by Bill Leeper:
There ain't no 1550 pound interior grizzly. Still a big bear though. Regards, Bill

I agree with that and generally call bs on the whole idea of a 1500 lbs grizzly from that area. But this story got started months before the bear above got shot.

A friend of mine is from a hunting family from the area where the bear was killed. The local speculation is that it is a coastal bear gone walk about. The story of a wondering coastal bear got going last fall (it may have been early this spring) with a picture of a huge grizzly on a gravel road. My friend sent me a the picture which I'll try to remember to post when I get in to town next week. I called bs, but she and her family remain confident that it is a real photo. When my friend received the photo of the dead bear above, she sent it along to me with a story. As she heard things, the bear was taken by a hunting outfitter who was specifically hunting the bear in the first photo taken along the gravel road. My friend thinks the story is true. Maybe she's even right.

No trophy shrinks in the retelling of the tale. Hopefully we'll be the real story from a bomb proof source one day.

Dean

I posted this in the Alaska forum on a 1417 lb Brown that was actually scaled so the weight is probably correct, you do the comparison, this picture posted here appears to be way out front of the people to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsJLISMIPjg

I don't know squat about bears but he looks like he could be that big to me and I'm sure he'd look even bigger if he was running at me.

The video shows he was taken with two arrows from a bow with a rifle after being harassed by a bowhunter.