modern day monster
PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:48 pm
Now before you start i cant prove this happened, my parents recieved this in the email. I wouldnt beleive it myself if i dont remeber hearing something about this a while back
"BEAR STORY
The downloaded pictures are of a man 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 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 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 (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. "
to put that in perspective no pistol (maybe a high calibur hunting pistol or the .5 desert eagle would do anything (my dad says they wouldnt) would do much damage, shotguns would be useless (besides maybe dragonfire rounds) my dad acctually had the same type of rifle that killed the bear, he is a strong guy and not small and he was even stronger when he was younger, he says its all you can do to keep the rifle in your hands when you fire it, due to how powerfull it is. I acctually have one of the bullets in my hand and i have to say its huge!
makes you feel all safe doesnt it when your in the woods.
"BEAR STORY
The downloaded pictures are of a man 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 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 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 (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. "
to put that in perspective no pistol (maybe a high calibur hunting pistol or the .5 desert eagle would do anything (my dad says they wouldnt) would do much damage, shotguns would be useless (besides maybe dragonfire rounds) my dad acctually had the same type of rifle that killed the bear, he is a strong guy and not small and he was even stronger when he was younger, he says its all you can do to keep the rifle in your hands when you fire it, due to how powerfull it is. I acctually have one of the bullets in my hand and i have to say its huge!
makes you feel all safe doesnt it when your in the woods.
Of course, this bear had supposedly killed someone, so it's different, but it didn't know any better. If I were in control, I'd have had it tranquilized and taken to a zoo or somewhere else where it couldn't kill anyone.
The article on snopes.com states that the picture of the hiker had nothing to do with the bear. It was an unrelated photo that I guess someone thought would be cool to add on.