thats incredible! Analyzing 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 hiker missing two days prior to the bear's own death. It's the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world. Arizona - ( Ammoland.com )- The video was filmed by Leon Lorenz on 14 June, 2010. He emailed photos of himself posing with the bear to friends. However, the accompanying story is about another hunter and another bear. Looks like a cat attack to me. See here for a complete list of exchanges and delays. Think about this: If you are an average size man; you would be level with the bear's navel when he stood upright. "It's amazing how stories can change once they circulate around the Internet.". It is the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world. A super bear as big as any ever seen. Grizzly bears Scientific Name: Ursus arctos horribilis Type: Mammals Diet: Omnivore Average Life Span In The Wild: 25 years Size: Five to eight feet Weight: 800 pounds Size relative to a 6-ft. As for the real record-breaking bear, it's under glass, said bear.org. That has nothing to do with my bear. The big bear was still alive so the hunter reloaded and shot it several times in the head. Outdoorsmen should recognize the difference between black bear and grizzly bear excrement: Black bear excrement is smaller and contains lots of berries and squirrel fur. The US Forest Service, backtracking from where the bear had originated, found the hiker's 38-caliber pistol emptied. Numbers are way up and lots getting into farm land and residential areas causing issues. Sam Kezar. Box 42029 Atlanta, Ga , 30311 Our fact check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook. It was added nearly a year after the most popular version of this story began circulating. . yea its on snopes the bear's real the story about the people are fake. The author's grizzly was one of the biggest taken with a recurve bow. "The bar has officially been. Was chased by wild boar in AL. . of Fish and Game. those are the same pictures that I had from the story that was sent to me. All I can add is You Bet Your A there are and more than likely even larger. times in the head. hundred pounds. Powered by UBB.threads PHP Forum Software 7.7.5. JB. Yes, that is gross. He says that the bear was actually ten feet high and weighed between 1,000 and 1,200 pounds. Looks like we need to post this helpful Bear Warning again: >>>>The guy emptied his 7mm Magnum semi-automatic rifle into the bear, and it dropped a few feet from him. It stood 12 6 high at the shoulder, 14 to the top of his head. The Standard Times confirmed with the Alaska Department of Fish and Gameat the timethat the bear didnt cause any human deaths ( here ). This is the very definition of ignorance. Thanks to precous Knut I have become an avid bear fan. Larry Fitzgerald poses with the largest grizzly bear taken by a hunter. emptied. exemption for fair use of copyrighted works. In 2014, a second largest grizzly skull was recorded from a hunter who shot a bear with a skull measuring 27 and 6/16th inches in length. Bear. Two hunters shot and killed a grizzly Thursday after she charged them with her cubs, Idaho Fish and Game reports. In light of the rising frequency of human/grizzly bear conflicts, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is advising hikers, hunters, and fishermen to take extra precautions and keep alert of bears while in the field. In 2021, it was estimated that the Alberta grizzly bear population stood at between 856 and 973. Not far from the pistol was the remains of the hiker. The service did not report on any bodies or details about the hiker.. But it was not 12 feet, 6 inches tall nor did it weigh 1,600 lbs. Someone sent it to me a couple of years back. "The hunters shot and killed the bear during its charge and were not injured," wildlife officials said Wednesday in a news release. hunting for sport is despicable and for cowards, animals have the same right to live just like humans, we are too many taking up space, therefore animals-human encounters will increase until humans exterminate all animals. Huge bear!!!! This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing: (Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Wed Sep 30 20:26:40 2020 UTC). MamaEagle And did the grizzly kill two hunters beforehand? Here are some transcipts from the show in exact format. Next time, make sure that bear is down! And there was more. The bear never killed attacked or ate anyone that officials or the hunter know about. In this case, the bear was a brown bear, not a grizzly, and between eight and nine feet tall. Next 500 years 32 Billion people or more Weve pulled over the top 10 forum conversations that were not specific to future content areas which we will be posting. January 1, 2010. shots (they ultimately found four 38 caliber slugs along with 2023 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. A mid-size Alaska grizzly bear shot by a Fairbanks hunter has claimed a hunting record that has the national media tripping all over itself to get things wrong. That's hefty, but coastal brown bears have been known to get bigger. The bear would look you in the eye when it walked on all fours! "A hair-raising yarn describing this supposed man-eating monster attacking a poor hapless deer hunter accompanies the photographs" of the bear, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in 2008. USA TODAY reached out to him for comment. This post has been carried over from our forum which has since been removed from the site. Bear season was open, so when the bear was 10 yards away, Winnen shot it through the head with a .388 Winchester Magnum and bowled it over, according to the North American Bear Centers fact-check. I heard about the gross pictures of the chewed up man that went along with this story. According to the two hunters, the bear may not even have been aware of their presence. It does make you understand a little bit more that bears arent cuddly animals in the wild. Here's the TRUE storyStill one HECK of readI'm the Anon who recently ported, just had to go get the link.http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bearhunt.asp, All you tree huggers out there need to leave us hunters alone. Although I am sure an encounter with a bear this size is very rare, encounters happen just the same. I have pictures on my e-mail of this bear, but if Trizey thinks they will be pulled I won't post them. The bear was just over one thousand six As far as I know this bear didnt, ya know, kill nobody or maul nobody. pretty sure i read about that in the paper. I love bears.at a safe distance. If the bear sat down in a room with you, and was flat on his behind on the floor, and tipped its nose up, his head would be through a normal ceiling by about a foot or two. Thanks to some photographs with a distorted perspective the made Winnen's bear look huge, that animal took on an afterlife of its own on the Internet and just kept growing and growing and growing after it was shot. For several nights in a row, the man had fended off the tenacious advances of a grizzly bear that had attacked him a few days earlier at a mining camp some 40 miles outside Nome. And this is their way of showing how they don't give a crap about laws," one Facebook user said in response to the statement. The U.S. Forest Service, backtracking from where the bear had originated, found the hiker's 38 caliber pistol emptied. one thousand six hundred pounds It stood 12' 6" high at the shoulder, 14' to the top of his head while standing on all 4 legs. Some Canadians don't agree with the ban on hunting grizzly bears. Posted: 1/5/2018 11:03:51 PM EST. ******** Fitter He also says the bear was not shot on Hitchenbrook Island but, like all good hunters, he wont be specific about where he got it .*************. hiker fired six shots and managed to hit the grizzly with four What would you do if you were doing just that and a huge bear charges you? It was a big bear, no doubt. If you are an average size man, you would be level with the bear's navel when he stood upright. Think about this: If you are an average size man; You would be level with the bear's navel when he stood upright. Although the hiker fired six shots and managed to hit the grizzly with four (that the Service ultimately retrieved, along with twelve 7mm slugs, inside the bear's body), it only wounded the bear and probably angered it immensely. the guy you are in referance to has no idea of hunting and what a charging grizzly is capable of. Two young couples are driving through a remote forest when their car breaks down. Narrator: And better yet, it became a man-eater. Narrator: So where did the photo come from? Not far from the pistol was the remains of the hiker. found. 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. To give additional perspective, this bear, standing on its hind legs, could walk up to an average single story house and look over the roof; or stand beside a two story house and look in the upperbedroom windows. Partly false. hey thats not cool i mean i'm glad the bear didn't kill anyone else but its the hunters that invaded their territory Is there a picture of the stuffed bear on display anywhere on the web??? That such a magnificent specimen had to be destroyed. Grizzly: Directed by William Girdler. The size seems a bit overblown -- seeing is believing I guess. Lorenz originally filmed grizzlys without carrying a pistol. BUT NASTY AT THE SAME TIME The man . would look you in the eye when it walked on all fours! Sounds like theres going to be some real problems here.. http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bearhunt.asp. A grizzly that killed and partially consumed a hiker in Denali National Park and Preserve in the summer of 2012 was only about half the size of the bear shot in 2001 by Winnen. That was also a Prince William Sound bear. An employee of the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska recently faced just that scenario. u tree huggers back off! An eighteen-foot-tall grizzly bear terrorizes a state park, leaving it up to a Park Ranger to save the day. Here's the real deal: http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bearhunt.asp, HOW DID YOU GET THAT BIG SON OF A GUN OF THE WOODS, how the hell did they drag that big beast out of the woods. I would not hesitate to shoot if I were being threatened. The posts also say that the Fish and Wildlife Commission established that the bear had killed at least two humans in the 72 hours before it was shot, including a hiker who went missing two days prior. . For what it is worth, I remember that third photo was circulated on a website and that the site claimed it to be the result of a dog attack. One of the hunters used bear spray while the other shot a gun at close range, giving the bear fatal injuries. Fish & wildlife officers believe it's possible that the person(s) responsible mistook the grizzly bear for a black bear and are asking them to contact the Report a Poacher Hotline," the statement said. The post says the bear that was shot is the "largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world" at over 1,600 lbs and standing at "12' 6' high at the shoulder, 14' to the top of his head".. Ministry of Environment confirmed the experienced hunter and taxidermist is currently in stable condition. The post also says a U.S. Forest Service worker shot the bear with a 7mm Magnum semi-automatic Rifle after it charged him and his hunting partner. The other body has not been found. Its weight at the time was estimated at 1,000-1,200 pounds. The U.S. Forest Service, backtracking from where the bear had originated, found the hiker's 38-caliber pistol emptied. The bear killed the hiker an estimated two days prior to the bear's own death by the gun of the Forest Service worker. Kenneth Cates, 53, was found Wednesday morning on a horse trail in a heavily wooded area of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge near his hometown of Soldotna. It opened: These pictures are of a man who works for the US Forest Service in Alaska, and his trophy bear. Asearch forFish and Wildlife Commission in Alaskashows no results the posts likely refer tothe Alaska Department of Fish and Game ( www.adfg.alaska.gov/ ). "The big bear was still alive so the hunter reloaded and shot it several times in the head. I wonder if it is photoshot???? It stood 12 6 high at the shoulder, 14 to the top of his head. Bear experts took a closer look and discovered that, wherever this man died, it probably wasnt anywhere near Alaska. And to all of you whom insulted the hunter, you really need to buzz off and mind your own business if you cant keep your fowl mouth shut. Not far from the pistol were the remains of the hiker. The organization said it called officials in Alaska for confirmation. Photos -- and the exaggerations -- hit the Internet in 2002. Effectively cloaked by their camouflage hunting gear, the pair had plenty of time to take their shot. Ted Winnen, who shot the bear, was an airman with the, The bear was large, but not a "world record. Wildlife officials said they shot and killed a Montana grizzly bear Friday that they believe pulled a California woman from her tent and killed her earlier this . Ray Massey Forest Service Spokesman Alaska Region: Who would pay for the government?" This is total bullshit. Fitter All killed with 45 acp 230 ball ammo. THE BEAR IS MINE!AND LIKE OUR CHILDREN; WE CAN LEARN MUCH FROM THE ANIMALS TOO, IF WE WOULD ONLY SEEK THE KNOWLEDGE INSTEAD OF FEEDING OUR EGO'S AND IGNORANCE! Idaho Fish and Game staff cleared the area so they could . I picked up the paw and it was like, good God. The thing was as wide as my chest.. An article bythe Standard Times reprinted inthe North American Bear Center here saysTedWinnenwasa 22-year-oldUnited States Air Forceairman,nota forestserviceworker, when heshota brown grizzly bear on Oct.14, 2001 onHinchenbrookIslandinAlaska. He says he has had it forwarded to him in the past. 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 while standing on all 4 legs. "With this case still open and an investigation ongoing, we cannot comment on the specifics of the incident," a spokesperson for Alberta Fish and Wildlife Enforcement told Newsweek. Fish and Wildlife Service employee based in Kodiak. To the skeptics: A 14 ft Grizzly IS INDEED possible. I have put my art on WEBSHOTS (karenvstefanini) for bear protection fundraising. One study found that the average weight for a coastal male was around 408 kg (899 lb), and 227 kilograms (500 pounds) for a female. Length 243 cm, width 222 cm Sold by in for You can display prices in $Au, $US, $NZ or Stg. Two elk hunters in Stamp Meadows near Island Park were charged by a grizzly. He rolled, drew the .44 Magnum pistol in his chest holster and emptied it into the bear, ending the encounter. So did plenty of others over the years. the pictures are accurate, but the story and details are incorrect. He bases that conclusion on a sobering calculus of time and distancethe two seconds required for a Wyoming grizzly bear to cover 20 yardsand the fact that Kezar somehow managed to get off seven shots from his 10mm in . The bear was 10 1/2 feet long and weighed more than half a ton Big, but not a record. 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