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« on: February 04, 2005, 08:59:52 PM »

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« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2005, 10:44:57 PM »

Man i can't get the pics to work, so go to this link:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/VelociRaptor350/bear.bmp

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/VelociRaptor350/bear1.bmp

Here's the story:
Bear Story, never know what you will run into in the woods!!!!

The following (first two) pictures are of a guy who works for the US Forest Service in Alaska and his trophy bear. He was out deer hunting last week when a large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy unloaded his 7 mm Mag Semi-automatic rifle into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The big bear was still alive so he reloaded and shot it several times in the head. The bear was just over one thousand six hundred pounds. It stood 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 Alaska Fish and Wildlife Commission did not let him keep it as a trophy, but the bear will be stuffed and mounted, and placed on display at the Anchorage airport (to remind tourist's of the risks involved when in the wild). Based on the contents of the bears stomach, the Fish and Wildlife Commission established the bear had killed at least two humans in the past 72 hours. His last meal was the unlucky nature buff in the third picture below. The US Forest Service, backtracking from where the bear had originated, found the hiker's 38-caliber pistol emptied. Not far from the pistol was the remains of the hiker. The other body has not been found. Although the hiker fired six shots and managed to hit the grizzly with four shots (they ultimately found four 38 caliber slugs along with twelve 7mm slugs inside the bear's dead body) it only wounded the bear - and probably angered it. The bear killed the hiker an estimated two days prior to the bear's own death by the gun of the Forest Service worker. Think about this - If you are an average size man; You would be level with the bear's belly button when he stood upright, the bear would look you in the eye when it walked on all fours! To give additional perspective, consider that this particular bear, standing on its hind legs, could walk up to an average single story house and look over the roof, or walk up to a two story house and look in the bedroom windows.

I have a pic of the guy it partially ate but its +18 so i don't want to post it, anyone intrested pm me and ill send it to you via email.
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« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2005, 08:57:45 AM »

 :oWOW.........good catch....they shouldve let him keep it Angry

might be hard getting that to fit into his igloo though........time to renovate.... Grin
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« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2005, 09:57:19 AM »

Your pics do not work becuase they are in BMP (Bitmap) format, Web browsers cannot show that.

In the future convert them to JPG, GIF or PNG
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« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2005, 02:47:09 PM »

That's insane.  I probably woulda sh*t my pants.  Too bad he couldn't keep it.  That would be one hell of a mount.
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« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2005, 02:48:05 PM »

$,$$$ mount
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« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2005, 02:48:17 PM »

nuts = sh*t
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« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2005, 04:42:19 PM »

yikes Shocked, I found the story on mountainsurvival.com @ http://mountainsurvival.com/news_articles/bearattack.html

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« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2005, 06:12:40 PM »

found another site that says the story is only party true

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-grizzlybear5.htm

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-grizzlybear.htm?terms=alaska+bear

Here's what the article says:

"The Giant Grizzly Bear"
This email tale, circulating constantly in one form or another since November 2001, seems to grow taller year by year. Ironically, the first two snapshots — the ones showing a hunter posing beside the carcass of an incredibly large Alaskan brown bear — are authentic. We know where and when they were taken, and by whom. The origin of the third photo purporting to show the remains of the behemoth's final victim is unknown. It was appended to the already-circulating email in late 2002.

Not quite a world record

In real life, the big grizzly in the first two photographs measured 10' 6" from nose to tail and weighed an estimated 1,000 to 1,200 pounds — unusually large for the vicinity in which it was found, says the USDA Forest Service, but not quite a world record, nor even a record for Alaska. It was killed on October 14, 2001 by U.S. Air Force Airman Theodore Winnen on Hinchinbrook Island, Prince William Sound. The photos were taken by his hunting partner, Staff Sgt. James Urban. Both were stationed at Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks at the time.

Though the bear was within 10 yards of the hunters' position and moving towards them when he fired the first shot, Winnen says, it did not charge them, contrary to what the email claims.  "I don't know if the wind was in our favor or what," he told the Anchorage Daily News. "We were dressed in camouflage. He might not have seen us."  Winnen's weapon was a 338-caliber Winchester Magnum, not a 7mm semi-automatic as alleged. The first bullet pierced the bear's brain but left it standing; five more in the chest brought it down.

No man-eater

Was the bear a man-eater, as claimed in the email?  No, says the Forest Service, there is no evidence of that. When asked by the Anchorage Daily News to comment on the horrific final image of what appears to be a partially-eaten human victim, Forest Service spokesman Ray Massey admitted he hadn't even looked at it.  "I didn't want to see a photo of the body," he said. "I know it's bogus."


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« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2005, 09:20:33 PM »

well even if it was an urban legend about eating 2 people, i still woudln't want to find that bear in the woods, look at the size of its paw, one swipe would break every bone in your body, that thing is freaking huge.
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« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2005, 09:56:47 PM »

yur right VelociRaptor350 that thing was too darn big for it's own good Wink
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« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2005, 09:12:33 PM »

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