The downloaded
pictures are of a man who works for the US Forest Service in Alaska and
his trophy bear (killed in self defense).
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 were 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.
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