On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:04:55 GMT, bones wrote:

VERY BIG BEAR



The following pictures are of a guy who works for the Forest Service
in Alaska. He was out deer hunting.



A large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy
unloaded his Semi-automatic rifle into the bear and it dropped a few
feet from him.



The big bear was still alive so he reloaded and capped it in the head.



The bear was 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 game
department did not let him keep it. It will be mounted and put on
display at the Anchorage airport (to remind tourists of the risks
involved when in the wild).



Think about this - 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 bear standing on its hind legs, could walk up to an average
single story house and look over the roof.



The bear had killed at least two people. His last meal was the unlucky
nature buff in the third picture below. The Forest Service found the
hiker's 38-caliber pistol emptied. Although the hiker fired six shots
and managed to hit the grizzly with four shots (they ultimately found
four 38 caliber slugs along with seven 7-mm slugs inside the bear's

carcass) it only wounded the bear - and probably angered it.



The bear killed the hiker an estimated three days prior to the bear's
own death by the gun of the Forest Service worker.



Have a look





http://www.troutflies.com/griz/griz.

Here is what the Urban Legends site snopes.com says about this story.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/bearhunt.asp

g.c.