Not Your Typical Grizzly...This One Has About 1600cc.

[Wahb]

Maybe not a complete myth, but the specifics have been blown out of proportion.

http://www.adn.com/outdoors/v-akcom/story/739717p-787512c.html

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/g/giantbear.htm

Another link has the pic y'all don't want to look at, but good reading before it. It completely discredits the connection between the sick pic and the bear story.

 

[660 SilverTip]

Thanks for the info Wahb. A guy can only go by what he has been told and when I actually read it in an article....well, then a guy is more likely to believe it. 12'6" from nose to tail? Assuming the tail is about 3 feet off the ground when the bear is standing...no matter the exact measurement....makes for a very large bear. Thanks for the :ORC

 

[dp91172]

that unreal.

 

[Grizzhopper]

BUT holy Grizzly what a ride it would be. Yeeeee-Haw... E-Ticket from start to finish. .

 

[MrSled]

Hey Hopper , you made it in..... Its Grizzwald from High Lifter....

 

[Grizzhopper]

Finally found the problem. Something in the verification email slapped my greymail filter at the server level. Once it triggered it, I did not even get any notification that it was grounded.

 

[MrSled]

Glad to see you here....wow that sounds like you have quite the filter...

 

[Grizzhopper]

Too much filter much of the time. Not the first time I have lost an email to Murphys Law.

 

[05Bruin]

Im new to this site, and im gonna have to agree with 660. My line of work puts me at the airport all the time and i have personally seen this bear many times... That thing is freakin HUGE!!

 

[660 SilverTip]

Just picture yourself and that bear standing in the bush together (the way he's mounted at the airport) with no place to go! :shock:

 

[660griz]

In real life, the big grizzly measured 10' 6" from nose to tail and weighed in at an estimated 1,000 to 1,200 pounds — unusually large for the vicinity, says the USDA Forest Service, but not quite a world record, nor even an Alaskan record. It was killed on October 14, 2001 by U.S. Air Force Airman Theodore Winnen on Hinchinbrook Island, Prince William Sound. The photos were taken by his hunting partner, Staff Sgt. James Urban. Both were stationed at Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks at the time.

Though the bear was within 10 yards of the hunters' position and moving towards them when he fired the first shot, Winnen says, it did not charge them, contrary to what the email claims. "I don't know if the wind was in our favor or what," he told the Anchorage Daily News. "We were dressed in camouflage. He might not have seen us." Winnen's weapon was a 338-caliber Winchester Magnum, not a 7mm semi-automatic as alleged. The first bullet pierced the bear's brain but left it standing; five more in the chest finally brought it down.

Was the bear a man-eater, as claimed in the email? No, says the Forest Service, there is no evidence of that. When asked by the Anchorage Daily News to comment on the horrific image of what appears to be a partially-eaten human victim, spokesman Ray Massey admitted he hadn't even looked at it. "I didn't want to see a photo of the body," he said. "I know it's bogus."