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Fourteen-foot grizzly killed in Alaska
The Sun (Alaska) ^ | 7/26/06 | D.A. Ray

Posted on 07/26/2006 8:03:17 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim

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To: kiriath_jearim

Anybody remember that movie "Grizzly" with Christopher George as the forest ranger? This story reminds me of that. Awesome beast.


21 posted on 07/26/2006 8:22:07 PM PDT by CaliGirlGodHelpMe
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To: Chena
That is one big Polar bear in the Anchorage airport.


22 posted on 07/26/2006 8:27:04 PM PDT by razorback-bert
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To: kiriath_jearim

Whoa! By BS meter is on red alert. This is likely the story of the young airman from Elmendorf AFB who shot a large griz' on Hinchinbrook Island and then positioned hisself several feet behind the bear for the pix. Yeah the paws were big. So what? I once placed my size 12 foot in a 9 foot sow's hind paw print with room to spare.

The biggest Brownie I ever saw was a 12 footer from the Olga Bay area of Kodiak Island. That bear weighed out at 1500 lbs. (parted of course). It is highly unlikely that they would get much bigger than that.

The other problem I have with this story is that as far as I can recomember, the USFS issues .375 H&H rifles for big Alaska bear protection. A 7mm Mag is OK for non-dangerous game like Sitka Blacktail deer and poodles and such but it is not a proper bear gun.


23 posted on 07/26/2006 8:27:17 PM PDT by 43north (7 of 11 living things are insects. This explains liberals.)
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To: Politicalmom; Chena
I posted it on Freerepublic several months ago.
I got whacked around by fellow Freepers for falling for it. The story changes every few months.
24 posted on 07/26/2006 8:27:22 PM PDT by ASA Vet (3.03)
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To: razorback-bert

Did you take that picture with a POLARoid?


25 posted on 07/26/2006 8:29:47 PM PDT by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything.)
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To: Reaganesque
Grizzly bear excrement has little bells in it and smells like pepper.

snort -

you suckered me right in with that one! LOLLOFLHHO little old lady laying on the floor laughing her hiney off

26 posted on 07/26/2006 8:30:28 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Lincoln)
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To: ASA Vet

So YOU'RE the one. I heard about you falling for that. Someone wrote it on a bathroom stall in Fairbanks. (just kidding) ;)


27 posted on 07/26/2006 8:31:37 PM PDT by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything.)
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To: maine-iac7

Grizzly bears call it bell peppers. ;)


28 posted on 07/26/2006 8:32:46 PM PDT by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything.)
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To: kiriath_jearim
The really bizarre part of the story started when the bear was examined by the United States Forest Service. Based on the contents of the bear's stomach, it was established that the bear had killed at least two humans in the 72 hours before its demise which included a missing hiker.

I love you Bear!

29 posted on 07/26/2006 8:34:47 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (999-TNS)
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To: CaliGirlGodHelpMe
Yeah, I saw it in the theatre so very long ago. What was it he used at the end, some sort of LOS HE missle?

Maybe the same type Harry Callahan used on Alcatraz.

30 posted on 07/26/2006 8:35:08 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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31 posted on 07/26/2006 8:38:48 PM PDT by McBuff
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To: Chena
No, that is a web photo, I didn't want to hunt throught 10,000 or photos of mine.

Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

This one of mine, hope to get more this September on my trip.

32 posted on 07/26/2006 8:39:04 PM PDT by razorback-bert
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To: kiriath_jearim

I remeber when I killed my first 18 foot grizzly with a plastic spork one morning on the western shores of Newport beach.


33 posted on 07/26/2006 8:41:32 PM PDT by Porterville (Hispanic Republican American Bush Supporter)
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To: Chena

Oy vey, I should pay closer attention to posts to me.


34 posted on 07/26/2006 8:42:19 PM PDT by razorback-bert
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To: kanawa

Is this one of your victims too? LOLOL


35 posted on 07/26/2006 8:43:21 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (404 Page Error Found)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Might have been a Browning semiauto. BTW great screenname...


36 posted on 07/26/2006 8:45:00 PM PDT by 185JHP ( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
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To: Chena
Someone wrote it on a bathroom stall in Fairbanks.

Actually that bathroom stall was in a McDonalds.
It just so happens that my sister, was working the window there at the time.
After she got bitten by a Møøse she went to wash up and found the writing on the wall.


37 posted on 07/26/2006 8:45:00 PM PDT by ASA Vet (3.03)
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To: razorback-bert

We saw several bears on our way down to Haines a few years ago. We saw plenty on POW island too. There's plenty of bears in our area as well, but so far, no problem.


38 posted on 07/26/2006 8:46:34 PM PDT by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything.)
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To: razorback-bert

;)


39 posted on 07/26/2006 8:47:05 PM PDT by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything.)
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To: ASA Vet

Holy moose COW! What a moooving story.


40 posted on 07/26/2006 8:49:05 PM PDT by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything.)
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