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Now THAT is a bear!
thesupermonkey
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The attached pictures are of a guy who works for the
forest service in Alaska. He was out deer hunting. A
large world record Griz charged him from about
50 yards away. The guy unloaded a 7mm Mag Semi-auto
into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The
thing was still alive so he reloaded and capped it in
the head. It was over one thousand six hundred pounds,
12'6" high at the shoulder standing up. It's a world
record. The bear had killed a couple of other people.
Of course, the game department did not let him keep
it. Think about it. This thing on it's hind legs
could walk up to the average single story house and
could look on the roof at eye level.
Don't worry about the bullet with your name on it, worry about the fragmentation grenade addressed 'To Occupant'.
Edited by - thesupermonkey on 06/24/2002 15:27:07
The attached pictures are of a guy who works for the
forest service in Alaska. He was out deer hunting. A
large world record Griz charged him from about
50 yards away. The guy unloaded a 7mm Mag Semi-auto
into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The
thing was still alive so he reloaded and capped it in
the head. It was over one thousand six hundred pounds,
12'6" high at the shoulder standing up. It's a world
record. The bear had killed a couple of other people.
Of course, the game department did not let him keep
it. Think about it. This thing on it's hind legs
could walk up to the average single story house and
could look on the roof at eye level.
Don't worry about the bullet with your name on it, worry about the fragmentation grenade addressed 'To Occupant'.
Edited by - thesupermonkey on 06/24/2002 15:27:07
Comments
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
Clouder..
I'm not afraid of the dark...the dark is afraid of me!
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
How often do we see this on the internet?
Suddenly the story is theirs; gory details, sweaty brow, palpitations and all. Amazing!!
Clouder..
Don't blame me for this, I'm just the messenger, but .......
According to Snopes (the Urban Legend reference site), the photos, and the size of the bear, are real but the story is not.
They say that the bear was shot by a deer hunter, not by a Forest Service employee, in November, 2001. It was shot with a .338 Mag, 250 gr. Nosler handloads, once in the head, followed up with two shots to the vitals.
This info, and more, can be found by going to Snopes.com and typing "World record bear" into their search engine. (That's how I found this information.)
Apparently, there were several large bears killed in a rather short period of time and several of the stories got co-mingled the way stuff that gets passed around the Internet tends to do.
Is that round good for other animals beside Bear?
stir, stir
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I'm not afraid of the dark...the dark is afraid of me!
Ten years from now they'll say a teacher was out for a walk in the woods, startled this record size bear having a dump, blinded it with his laser pointer, then killed it with a pen knife that he jabbed in its temple as it started to stand up from the log it was sitting over. The rabbit escaped unharmed. Love a good story.
The most important things, Are not things.
SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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Free men are not equal and equal men are not free
New Story:
CAPTURED:
Three Al quada terrorists were captured this morning while trying to enter the United States from Canada dressed like a giant teddy bear. Unfortunatly for them it was bear season and a local hunter opened fire upon the three would be terrorists with his semi automatic Barret 50 BMG. The hunter realised it wasn't a real bear when he spotted what appeared to be toilette paper hanging from the animals *. After further inpection he realised that what he thought was TP was in fact the turbins of the terrorists and they were all that was left of the terrorists.
" They must have all three been wearing belly bombs to have blown up like that".
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
New Story:
CAPTURED:
Three Al quada terrorists were captured this morning while trying to enter the United States from Canada dressed like a giant teddy bear. Unfortunatly for them it was bear season and a local hunter opened fire upon the three would be terrorists with his semi automatic Barret 50 BMG. The hunter realised it wasn't a real bear when he spotted what appeared to be toilette paper hanging from the animals *. After further inpection he realised that what he thought was TP was in fact the turbins of the terrorists and they were all that was left of the terrorists.
" They must have all three been wearing belly bombs to have blown up like that".
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
The caption isn't mine it came with the pictures.
Regardless, that's STILL a Big Bear!
Don't worry about the bullet with your name on it, worry about the fragmentation grenade addressed 'To Occupant'.
280 freak, thanks for the info. Pretty interesting site, lots of different info. Good post.
Supermonkey: I agree, whatever the story behind the bear is doesnt detract from the fact that it is one awsome specimine and would cause uncontrollable bowel movements if it were to charge anyone...
PS, I still like the terrorists infiltrating version best...lol...
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
If you will blame gun makers for every shooting then blame car maker for every car accident.
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
That bear might be the biggest, or he might not be. He might have been shot with a .338 Win, or he might have been shot with a 7mm Mag. He might have been shot by a forestry worker, or he might have been shot by a deer hunter.
But whether it's the biggest or not, it's got my vote for the ugliest!
Damn thing looks more like a baboon that's been pumped full of steroids and mutated into a Super-Baboonr.
Which means that our very own supermonkey has found his only living relative!
quote:This bear was killed when Bullzeye shot the tree down, And it fell on his head. Unlike bulz, These guys own a chain saw. They just cut the tree off of the bear, And took the credit from our boy Bulz
Not to be mean, but you shoot a bear that big (or any bear that has a pain tolerance higher than your average pre-schooler) with a .223 and he will almost certainly become extremely angry and tear your head off with one paw.
Bears have very thick skulls. You'd need a very large round and you'd need to shoot it directly in the head (probably a couple of times) to guarantee you killed it.
This is what rounds like the .416 Rigby, the .45-70, and the .458 WinMag are made for.
Not to say a 7.62x54mm soft-point wouldnt do the job, but unlike some of our members I prefer to use the correct round for the animal. Especially when just wounding it is going to cost you your life.
The most important things, Are not things.
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
Don't worry about the bullet with your name on it, worry about the fragmentation grenade addressed 'To Occupant'.
Edited by - thesupermonkey on 06/25/2002 14:46:24
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
"Just my opinion."
When a bear is mad enough to charge, the only thing that will stop it is to immediately and unequivocably kill it.
Wounding it will not make it stop. No matter how much your rifle cost or how cool you think you are being.
I was just kidding, being silly, just like going bear huntin' with a full auto stoner
"Just my opinion."
I'm the kind of idiot that shoots deer with a 338, why you ask yourself? Well, thats easy. I'm the kind of idiot that knows how to reload, and I know how to reload a light bullet that travels very fast in my 338. That makes me the smart idiot. Ya know what makes me even smarter? Not being the dead idiot that went hunting deer where there are big * bear like this one with a deer rifle that wouldnt even begin to stop a bear. My 338 also happens to be stainless and synthetic stocked, the only one I have like that, which would be good in an area where there are bear like this one. I take comfort in knowing that if I were to hunt deer in an area like this one, the first two shots would be for the deer, and the last one would be for self preservation if needed, in a caliber that will stop anything I would come across. I know you werent attacking anyone of us 338 idiots in particular, but sometimes it pays not to use such a broad stroke of the brush when describing what you believe to be an idiot. You may offend some of your friends someday.
SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
No problem, you werent aiming at anyone personally, I know. I use to think that I had an ideal rifle in the 30-06, which was the only one I owned at the time. Then I went to Bass Pro down the highway in Springfield, and I stood next to a big Grizzly Bear mount. It was then that I decided it didnt make a darn bit of difference what I was hunting, if an animal this size could possibly be in the same vicinity that I may happen to be in, size does matter, and my 30-06 wasnt going to impress the girls, or the bears. For anyone that has the cahonas to shoot at a bear like the one I saw, for sport, with a gun smaller than a 338, except for some of the high power 300 magnums, knock yourself out, but I'm going to be right behind you, way, way, behind you.
SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....