Bogus Bear?

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deerefan

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Just got this email...wondering if it is true.
Have you seen this one yet???

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.
 

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I've seen that before, maybe a year ago?
 
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One more pic...I question this for a couple reasons. If the gentleman is a legitimate hunter carrying a 7MM Mag, there should only be a couple shots, one if he is good. Maybe he was panicked, under attack. Second, a bear this big must have been seen by someone yet the first time we hear about it is when some yahoo kills it?? If it is factual, that is amazing. If not, it still makes a neat campfire story! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 

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What do you think...legit?
 
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Real picture, exagerated story is the Snopes take on it:

Snopes
 
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I honestly don't know, impressive none the less.
 
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Kinda like those fish stories...the 2lb bass gets bigger every time the story is told!
 
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Last year when this picture was floating around, the bear was much smaller. I also don't remember it having just killed two people either.

14 feet tall is well above the rediculous point. Bear hides are measured along two points. The hide is first skinned and stretched out. Then you measue from nose to tail and from the tips of the front paws. Add both measurments and devide by two. This is the number used when measureing the size of a bear.

Nine feet is really good. Ten foot is absolutely amazing. Eleven feet have happened, but it's so rare as to be just about impossible. A hunt for a bear in an area that has produced a ten foot bear will cost around $15,000.

Fourteen feet is just silly.

Bears in the record books are measured by the the size of their skull. Length plus width. A buddy of mine that I grew up with has the Archery world record black bear. I un-officially measured it right after he brought it home. He had no idea how big it was. It scored 23 3/16 inches. It's also number three in the Boone and Crocket book, which is for rifle kills.

The largest Brown Bear ever killed and entered in the record book scored 30 12/16 inches and was killed in 1952.

There is no record for how many feet a bear's hide is because it's too easy to stretch it out for a larger score. They also shrink over time.

Eddie
 
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I think it killed General Ringwald and Ted Nugent and serioiusly injured George Carlin. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 

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