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12'6" bear pics from MikeB
jsergovic
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He's got the story. There's one more pic, too gory to post.
The link can only go out at emailed request.
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A dead intruder cannot testify against you in a court of law!
If they're still moving, put another round in them!
"If you aim at nothing,
you will be sure to hit it"
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Wow...check this out (very graphic pictures)
"The attached pictures are of a guy who works for the Forest Service in
Alaska. He was out deer hunting. A large Grizzly 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 monster 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, 14' to the top of his head. It's 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 level with the bears belly button when he stood, he would look you in the eye when walking! This bear on its hind legs could walk up to the average single story house and look over the roof at eye level. The bear had killed 2
other people. His last meal was the poor fellow on a nature hike.
Ouch. The Forest Service found his 38-caliber emptied. He 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 encounter was estimated to be 3 days prior to the bears death. The 7mm has about 10 times the energy of a
44 mag pistol and the .38 is a pop-gun compared to the .44.
" Fear is good".
"If you aim at nothing,
you will be sure to hit it"
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I belive the bear is real, but the story is kind of fiction. It actually wasn't a forrest service worker but a hunter in AK hunting for deer. The guy dropped the bear with a .338 Winchester mag to the head and two more in the chest I believe.
The part about the human remains is also real, but not part of this story and not this bear (and there is some question about whether it was even a bear, or wolves). They were remains discovered in AK in a completely different area.
The remains discovered nearby, in yet another bear story (but a much smaller one), also in AK, were actually part of a moose. Seems that over time, all three stories got merged together into one TALL TALE![:D]
In any case, that is ONE BIG *' of a bear!![:0]
Larry
I was sent a similar story by a relative and consulted our resident Alaskan expert . . . see this thread for the true facts:
http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=92663
"There is nothing lower than the human race - except the French." (Mark Twain)
I was asked by Mike B to post these pics, including one of a man's leg chewed to the bone. That one I would not post.
I know nothing about this story; just doing a favor for a GB'er who couldn't get a pic to post..
makes me think it is the Hitchingbrook bear killed in 2000/2001