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 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 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 bedroom windows.
