While it was a large grizzly bear the hunters killed, it did not charge them, was not as big as claimed or a world record, and did not eat hikers. After seeing the story on the 14-foot grizzly, hunters . Partly false. this is to toby norman you are an absolute idiot to call him a coward , let me guess you would stand there with your gun in hand while the grizzly was charging you not firing a shot and let the bear keep charging still not firing a shot and watch it until it finally reached you and absolutelly ripped you a part without letting up until you were dead if he is a coward for shooting him then i guess i would be a coward and alive and you would be a idiot and dead. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. honestly, considering the state of our planet. I'm glad the forest ranger shot it Lord knows how many people that thing coulda killed. In this case, the bear was a brown bear, not a grizzly, and between eight and nine feet tall. 2009 6.8 Billion people Idaho Fish and Game staff cleared the area so they could . The following (first two) pictures are of a guy who works for the US Forest Service in Alaska and his trophy bear. And did the grizzly kill two hunters beforehand? It was amazing, he said. Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual man that would be a great full body mount! They are know to pull 1000 pound boulders out of the ground and can smash down a 12" thick tree with it 1600 pounds of force per feet. inaccurate stories, videos or images going viral on the internet. "While bears are occasionally shot and killed in the province, it is not something that we encounter on a regular basis. exemption for fair use of copyrighted works. Honestly, why would he favor bears over humanity? Grizzly: Directed by William Girdler. The human remains picture is totally unrelated and was tacked on to make the story more scary. It's the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world. BUT ODLY COOL. It's Ron Whitegood story, but probably not true. A grizzly bear that dragged a woman from her tent and killed her in Montana has been shot dead. An article bythe Standard Times reprinted inthe North American Bear Center here saysTedWinnenwasa 22-year-oldUnited States Air Forceairman,nota forestserviceworker, when heshota brown grizzly bear on Oct.14, 2001 onHinchenbrookIslandinAlaska. The bear was coming towards Winnen and his hunting partner from about 10 yards away, but nobody knows for sure whether it was "charging them." Use a Kanawa Bear Killer! The post, shared way back in 2014 by Joseph E. Botts, has a picture of a man posing next to a giant dead bear. Blogs and websites claimed the Hinchinbrook Island bear stood 12 1/2 feet tall on its hind legs. A mid-size Alaska grizzly bear shot by a Fairbanks hunter has claimed a hunting record that has the national media tripping all over itself to get things wrong. Hunters in Montana shot and killed a grizzly bear recently in what they described as a self-defense encounter as they processed an elk carcass in the backcountry . It will be stuffed, mounted, and placed on display at the Anchorage airport to remind tourists of the risks involved when in the wild. And another plus, that leaves a lot of deer and elk for us good ol boys to eat GIT-R-DONE, imagine seeing that shit looking into you window as you go to take another hit from the bong. The bear, the post went on to say, was stuffed and put on display at the Anchorage airport. Two young couples are driving through a remote forest when their car breaks down. Six months later, Sigfredo Casiano, was hiking in Alaska and had a similar experience with a large bear. USA TODAY reached out to him for comment. Kim Woodman, 57, shot the bear five times with a GLOCK 10mm Auto semi-automatic handgun before the bear fell about 6 feet from him. It stood 12 6 high at the shoulder, 14 to the top of his head. It could walk up to a two story house and look in the bedroom windows. He left the ADN in 2015. The dead bear at the side of the road. Analyzing 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, including a hiker missing two days prior to the bear's own death, the post said. That such a magnificent specimen had to be destroyed. Did a hunter in Alaska kill the largest grizzly bear on record? He was out deer hunting last week when a large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away. James Urban. Culture Bears Wildlife Alaska TikTok. The man-eating monster Alaska bear that refuses to die in cyberspace was shot in fall 2001 on Prince William Sound's Hinchinbrook Island by a then-22-year-old airman from Eielson Air Force Base named Ted Winnen. my comment is as follows that creature was tremendous its to bad it was destroyed. Very interesting happenings over the weekend.. Warwoman Bear Firearm Opener AAR: I've got questions. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. - Abe Lincoln, If you do a google search for ("record grizzly" + alaska + airport). The grizzly started charging toward the group. The posts make several claims, some of which are false. . grizzly bear, (subspecies Ursus arctos horribilis), common name for one of the brown bears (Ursus arctos) belonging to the subspecies U. arctos horribilis. This is what I found attached to this same story and pictures. ."It stood 12' 6" high at the shoulder, 14' to the top of his head while standing on all 4 legs".How do you work out that it would look you in the eye when on all fours if its 14 foot to the top of its head on all fours?.is that if your standing on a ladder? They are known to smash through the walls of a houses just like you run a 3000 pound car throught the walls of a house. Lloyd and his son-in-law Skeet Podrasky were hunting Continue reading Man Attacked By . Where upon a 14 foot grizzly bear was shot to death by a ranger out deer hunting. Although Fitzgerald shot the bear last September, Boone and Crockett, which certifies hunting records, has only now determined the grizzly, with a skull measuring 27 and 6/16ths inches, is the . They usually measure 8 ft (2.4 m) in length, usually have a shoulder height of about 4 to 4 1/2ft or 1.22 to 1.37 meters (137 cm), and a hindfoot length of 11 in (28 cm). Because of the temporal closeness of these two accounts, the two stories became confused. hunting for sport is despicable and for cowards, animals have the same right to live just like humans, we are too many taking up space, therefore animals-human encounters will increase until humans exterminate all animals. Kenneth Cates, 53, was found Wednesday morning on a horse trail in a heavily wooded area of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge near his hometown of Soldotna. To give Who really wants to meet that walking down a trail in the dark as we all do while hunting . ******** Not far from the pistol was the remains of the hiker. It stands as the second-largest ever killed. The bear in the picture is supposedly as you mentioned: The bear was over one thousand six hundred pounds. Alaska hunter kills record grizzly bear By Rob Chaney Missoulian May 9, 2014 0 Hunter Larry Fitzgerald of Fairbanks, Alaska, displays the record grizzly bear he killed. He was out deer hunting when a large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away. They were widely circulated at one time as photos of Timothy Treadwell, a would-be actor and filmmaker who spent many summers in Alaska trying to make friends with the bears before one of them killed and ate him. "The bear . So where did the photo come from? But, if the climate is warm and/or food is very plentiful year-round, they don't hibernate, for example, the California grizzly. Of course, the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Commission did A viral Facebook post that has been circulating online for years claims to tell the story of the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world being shot. A grizzly bear on a road at night, captured by a trail camera in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Welcome to 2001, Phyllis, thanks for joining us!:-). Then again, Alaska bears don't have to grow that big to be dangerous. I've sheep hunted with one of the guys involved. u tree huggers back off! Winnen bagged the bear with a .338-caliber Winchester Magnum, not a "7mm Mag. Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment. hundred pounds. The real story was in Big Game Adventures a couple of years ago. It was both deerand bear hunting season at the time. The confusion was frustrated by National Forest Service officials who mistakenly identified the photos to be from Casianos story. Ya know I got to get that straight. Nor was it a killer bear, the site reported. Wasn't the guy who shot that bear doing threesomes with supermodels in his single-wide? That is amazing! It was a big bear and made B&C, but it didn't eat anyone etc. These precious creatures need our respect and support.Submitted by: Karen V. Stefanini,Beautiful Back Bay, Boston, MA. It's the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world. They will either be killed off or they will end up in a zoo. Powered by UBB.threads PHP Forum Software 7.7.5. : Arthur Brice is a fact checker at Lead Stories. If you look at the vegetation in there its not quite tropical but it certainly is not Alaskan. I'm pretty sure that guy was an airman from Eielson AFB that shot that bear and no, it was no where near 14 feet, not shot in self defense and was not a man eater. My Dad called me this morning and asked me to check it out. Not far from the pistol was the remains of the hiker. Although the pictures are real, the story is largely hogwash.". Length 243 cm, width 222 cm Sold by in for You can display prices in $Au, $US, $NZ or Stg. The photos became an internet sensation and soon, stories appeared along with the images. The guy emptied his 7mm Magnum semi-automatic rifle into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. GARDINER, Mont. As noted from a television show on National Geographic with the actual hunter that killed the bear. Winnenshot the bearas itapproachedhimand his hunting partnerusinga .338 Winchester Magnum, not a 7mm Magnum semi-automatic rifle. I heard about the gross pictures of the chewed up man that went along with this story. "It's amazing how stories can change once they circulate around the Internet. The story was back again on montanahunting.org just a few months ago under the headline "1600 lb Man Eating Grizzly Killed in Alaska.". I do not hunt for sport but will shoot if in danger. And if you go to the link at Montana Hunting to read the full account of this bear, be forewarned there are graphic and horrifying photos at the end of the story. The Standard Times confirmed with the Alaska Department of Fish and Gameat the timethat the bear didnt cause any human deaths ( here ). Miraculously, 56-year-old Wilf Lloyd survived the harrowing experience. This is the same story that usually accompanies the picture of the big bloody grizzly.I would post a link, but I remember it being pulled before. i do feel bad for the people envolved, however,we do hunt them, perhaps they are simply learning to return the favor. ;). It is the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world. Duh. Maybe not a world record but nothing to be scoffed at either.. The bear that ate him also died. Oct 13, 2021 Updated Jun 30, 2022. That photo was attached somewhere along the way when the story was circulating. u no what? Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters. Dear ACTIVIST this bear is currently mounted and stuffed in the anchorage international airport in anchorage ak. Sam Kezar reckons he'd be either dead or disfigured if he hadn't spent all summer fast-drawing his Glock. emptied. Looks like a cat attack to me. They are photos of the remains of a human reportedly mauled by a bear. they can pick up the front end of a family size car with it's mouth and ripe the tires of with it teeth. 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