All nature buffs ... beware!
The following (first two) 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 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 tourist's of the risks
involved when in the wild). Based on the contents of the bear's
stomach, the Fish and Wildlife Commission established the bear had
killed at least two humans in the past 72 hours. His last meal was
the unlucky nature buff in the third picture. 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 room.
