Another Bear thread

[xjer]

My brother sent this to me today via email.
What do you think? Is it true?

Mike



> Subject: Bear Attack in Alaska
>
> The following pictures are of a guy who works for the Forest Service in
> Alaska. He was out deer hunting. A large world record 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. The bear had killed 2 other people.
> His
> last meal was the poor fellow on a nature hike. 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 they only
> wounded him
> since it was estimated to be 3 days prior to the bears death by
> the Forest Service man.
>
> It was over one thousand six hundred pounds, 12'6" high at the shoulder,
> to the
> top of his head 15 +' tall. 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.
> <<TedPaw.jpg>> <<Tedbear1.jpg>>



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[xjer]

Trying the pictures again.

 

[Highland Ranger]

Looks pretty big to me. Wouldn't want to run into that without mobile artillery . . . .

 

[xjer]

Picture #2

 

[Newt]

I've seen that before. My boss and I did some research on that (actually just googled it up) and found this. Bear Myth

 

[Newt]

And again....

Bear Myth


Bear Myth Contd...

Don't want to bust anyones bubble, but we were skeptical when we got two different emails containing the same pictures. That's what we found.

 

[Bruz]

And again

And again, and again...do a search on it, it comes up about once a month on the forums. Most of the time he gets bigger and bigger and harder and harder to kill. Still a huge bear that I would not like to share my tent with.

 

[Dave R]

Yup, I know the story behind it is 'exaggerated', but that is still a big bear. If its not a world-class bear, then I would like to see a picture of a world-class bear.

 

[inGobwetrust]

Like these?

Shoot! Pic didn't post. I'll email it to anyone who wants to see it.

 

[Balog]

I'll take an e-mail of that pic. [email protected]

 

[H&Hhunter]

It's not true.........

It was actaually killed by one of our members with a shotgun. Using buckshot....

Just kidding guys....You can kill me later.

 

[El Tejon]

I heard the bear was shot while riding a magic unicorn.

I figure it's just as accurate as anything else bear related.

 

[Byron Quick]

No, tell me it's not true. The bear wasn't killed with the world's deadliest projectile...buckshot.

It was defracted Nytrillium coated unobtainium buckshot, I'll bet.

 

[JShirley]

Fang-faced, at that!

Oh, the humanity!

 

[Matt G]

Unobtanium, you say, Byron? Where's that on the Periodic Table? Ah! Right after Superduperium, and just before Kickassium.

Element symbol: $

 

[stevelyn]

Shhhhhhhhhh.............be very quiet and don't talk about them. They're sleeping now.

This was discussed on another thread sometime back. The bear was real, his last meal a hoax.