World Record Grizzly Bear killed in Alaska

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Holy craperz!! I would seriously have issues for the rest of my life if this happened to me. Probably develop a tick and never want to go outside in the wild again!! :WHOA:


For those of you that hunt, how would you like to encounter this brute. I sure wouldn't. Don't know if the 30.06 could have dropped him if a 7MM had to be reloaded to get him. Whew!!! Almost worth a trip to Anchorage airport to just see this monster. I feel for the other two or more people that lost their life to him though.

The downloaded pictures are of a man who works for the US Forest Service in Alaska and his trophy bear (killed in self defense).

He was out deer hunting last week when a large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy emptied his 7mm Magnum 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 tourists 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 including a missing hiker

The US Forest Service, backtracking from where the bear had originated, found the hiker's 38-caliber pistol emptied. Not far from the pistol were 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 (the Service 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 immensely.

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 navel 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. &nbs
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Holy... sh1t... that's a monster. It's sorta sad to see him dead, but they had to do it. It couldn't go around killing anymore people. That forest service guy is lucky he dropped him. That could have gotten real ugly.

I wonder how old that bear was.
 
Makes me think I need to get a bigger rifle.That this is huge.:WHOA: Thinking about what that hiker went through makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.
 
I used to have some pictures of one of the people he killed. It was gross. The person was totally ripped apart. And his right leg was totally stripped to the bone.
 
I remember seeing this pics n article years back........ i also remember people finding out it was a hoax...... im not sure....... that thing it badass eitherway.......
 
i thought the dismal swamp black bears in my area were dangerous at about the biggest of 600 lbs twice as big as me but wow they would just be cubs or food compaired to that monster wow:WHOA: :jaw:
 
Well i've researched this story and its size was and weight were dramatized and increased by the web frenzy it caused. It was actually only 10.5 feet tall and weighed 1150 pounds according to several reputable hunting sites. And also its not even a record at all here is a pic of the world record grizzly..........It stood 11feet tall and weighed 1300 pounds...

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thats old... :)
 
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