14-foot Bear Killed in Alaska

[Cosmoline]

Yet brown bears have been stopped by 9x19 and smaller rounds. And kept going after repeated magnum rifle hits.

 

[Erich]

And somehow I keep running across people who feel the need to carry .454s to deal with those hyper-agressive New Mexico black bears.

 

[Phenom]

One shot kills on bears with a small caliber pistol rounds like the 9mm are "one in a million". I remember reading somewhere about a polar bear being stopped by a 38spl wadcutter when it attack a person. The round luckily struck both of the lungs and heart.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

12 7mm slugs!!! holy crap. is there a picture of this prime example of Natures Perfect Killing machine?!

Apparently you don't quite understand how it works. Bears are primarily herbivores but are more correctly called omnivores...like people. The fact that the bear might have been tough is another matter. There are many tough animals that are not considered killing machines.

Now, if you want to talk polar bear, they don't get a lot of vegetation to feed on and so their diet is almost all flesh.

 

[bigun15]

Just imagine an animal of these proportions charging straight at you with nothing but hate and destruction in its very being.

I don't want to.

 

[mrmeval]

Snopes says it was an Airman

Not being about to read the link you posted since it doesn't exist I went and found this:

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

 

[Bigjake]

I believe my first exposure to an earlier version of this story involved Davy Crockett when he was "only three" . . .

LMAO.

that was my first thought

 

[Sam]

I happen to know Ted Winnen. He has gotten more crap over shooting that bear than anyone deserves in an entire lifetime.

Although he was glad to luck into such a nice specimen, totally fed up with the bovine feces that has come as a result.

Sam

 

[JohnKSa]

The real kicker is this email group is for federal employees to keep them up to date on issues. It never seemed as a place where urban legends would propagate. That's what sucked me in.

I work at a large defense contractor--the IT department sent out an urban legend awhile back...

No one is immune!

 

[Erich]

Wow, Sam, that's cool! Only two degrees of separation between me and the gargantuan bear!

 

[tellner]

Erich, you want as many degrees of separation as possible between you and a gargantuan bear. The more the better. Trust me

 

[Erich]

Generally, I'd agree, but as long as Sam is between me and the bear, I feel secure.

 

[rc135]

Yeah, I read what www.Snopes.com said about it. The true vervion of the story is even more exciting than the mythical one, in my opinion. A big bruin, nonetheless...

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