The following 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 7mm 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
120" high at the shoulder, 140" 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 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. His last meal was an unlucky nature buff. 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.
