12 foot bear

[ted]

5 pirate hooks per paw.

Saddle Hills , Alberta Grizzly...

Big Bear shot in the Saddle Hills, Alberta , Canada on Sept 20/2010

These two gents were calling elk in the Saddle Hills south of Woking when this big guy slipped in on the caller. The shooter spotted the bear 8 yards from the caller and dropped him with 5 shots out of his 338 Rem Mag..

Farmers in the area knew about the Bear but weren’t able to track it after it had killed 3 horses, 5 cows, 13 sheep and a pen full of chickens on several different homesteads in the area.

Fish and wildlife had bear traps set up in the area but noticed on surveillance video that whenever a he would enter his hump would hit the top of the culvert trap slowing him enough that the trap door would wack him on the head before he was all the way in. Check out the scar tissue on his face…..

The bear weighed in just under 1300 pounds and would have stood 11 ¾ feet tall on its hind legs…..

[Jeff Higgins]

Thanks, Ted. And thanks for the experience with a different kind of growly bear.

[tevake]

WOW is that for real? Boy I sure wouldn't want to have that guy after me in the woods.
Lucky they were after big game, and had the big guns with them.
Whoa! Richard

[RWebb]

that's nuthin'

use your time machine to bag one of these:

[ted]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Thanks, Ted. And thanks for the experience with a different kind of growly bear.

glad it gave you a pulse.
It was new territory for both of us.
my bear shouldn't eat me.

[crustychief]

Holy mackerel! I think I would have S%^&t my pants if that thing got 10 yards from me!

[9dreizig]

Big bear but not a 12 footer (would be a world record IIRC). Certainly not in Alberta only coastal griz get that big.. No doubt a big bear however..

[Hugh R]

It's poop probably had little bells in it and smelled of pepper.

[Gretch]

a 12 square bear is HUGE......... 10 square (paw to paw, all four corners) bears are trophy griz.

and a 338, 5 rounds....... Have most of you ANY IDEA how powerful a round that is???????? the inside of that bear has to be scrambled.

GEEZUS!

[9dreizig]

Originally Posted by Gretch

a 12 square bear is HUGE......... 10 square (paw to paw, all four corners) bears are trophy griz.

and a 338, 5 rounds....... Have most of you ANY IDEA how powerful a round that is???????? the inside of that bear has to be scrambled.

GEEZUS!

Yup last big bear I shot was 9'6" one shot with 375 h&h

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by ted

5 pirate hooks per paw. ...

I think these two shots say it all. If he hit you with that it would certainly ruin your day.
I'd imagine a bear this big would be very rare. How many of these are left in the wild?

[Mark Henry]

I'm saying BS as well , 338 only has 4 rounds, one in the camber and 3 in the clip.

[9dreizig]

Good catch Mark

[ODDJOB UNO]

OH MY! just as my "cute as a bugz ear" smith und vesson model 29 nickel 4" mandated last ditch effort to save my azz bear spoon, is about to come back from magnaporting and dr nelson ford(thegunsmith.com) w/every trick in the book laid on it.................



i think i will HEED springfield armorys statement-"BRING ENOUGH GUN!"



man it would be my dum azz luck to have to go take a growler real bad, and run off into the woods and find that PRICK!



having to shoot that damn thing in a SQUAT w/my .338 win mag would be just MY LUCK!



that damn thing should not be allowed anywhere but iran/n.korea/pakistan/afghanistan/iraq.

[ODDJOB UNO]

yep my .338 holds only (4) and its a mcmillian winchester m-70.


i think i want a BELT FED .338!

[Mark Henry]

Why does the one pic ( #3,) say 03/05/2007 ?
Download it, open it and right click properties.
Fuji finepix E900

Number #1 doesn't have any properties, I haven't checked the others.
Hmmmmm......

Nice bear but.....

[KarlCarrera]

Big, big bear. Pic's look real, (casual observer), 5 shots,....maybe they were going off so fast he lost count....either way, that is a heck of a bear. 25' or 100', that's a big bear.

A (my) .357 would just be a .22...

I need a bigger gun..................

Karl
88 Targa

[sc_rufctr]

How about a 50 caliber machine gun?

Seriously... Anything smaller and you'd only piss him off.

[Mark Henry]

Hunting in Alaska for Elk, Deer, Bear and Duck with Afognak Lodge

This Alaska kodiak was only 9'-9"....I think I've seen these pics somewhere before...just can't put my finger of it.

[Danny_Ocean]

Originally Posted by Mark Henry

Why does the one pic ( #3,) say 03/05/2007 ?

Because that's how long these bear pics/ever-changing story has been circulating on the interweb. I've seen these quite a few times, typically through e-mail.