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Posted: 11/17/2001 2:00:11 PM EDT
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Holy SHIT!!! That thing is HUGE!!!
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Posted: 11/17/2001 2:56:19 PM EDT
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If it is real, I bet that guy and his buddies got a hernia dragin that thing to camp. And i also bet that they are tryin to find the money for the Barrett M82. Just in case he has a big brother.
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Posted: 11/17/2001 3:43:49 PM EDT
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Quoted: Got this in an email... This bear was killed by an airman here on base down on Hitchenbrook Island were I went deer hunting last year. This is what I would like to get. Look at this one -- 12’6” and estimated over 1600lbs. He was walking to his hunting area and the big boy stood up only 35 yards away. He was shocked, the bear dropped down and went straight for him. He unloaded his gun and it fell 10 yards from him. Damn....The B&C Record just recorded a new World Record Brownie..but that was 1998. [b]NEW WORLD'S RECORD SCORE: 27-5/16 LOCALITY KILLED: Toklat River, Alaska BY WHOM KILLED: David F. Malzac OWNER: David F. Malzac DATE KILLED: 1998 KEY MEASUREMENTS: Greatest length of skull without lower jaw: 16-11/16 Greatest width of skull: 10-10/16[/b] Hard to believe that thing weighed over 1600lbs though...but they do grow them big in Alaska. I have hunted in and around that particular Island..but never the island. The population is approx. 60-140 Brownies for Hitchenbrook. I wasn't even aware you could hunt it. Part of the Island is a National Park if my memory serves me right. Big Ol' Bar! |
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Posted: 11/17/2001 3:51:35 PM EDT
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one word comes to mind WOW!!!!!
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Posted: 11/17/2001 5:03:40 PM EDT
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I don't know... I checked it in Photoshop and the picture seems to be intact and un-butchered. However, I'm no expert. Any graphics experts here wanna take a look-see?
As for the muzzle, I've seen all kinds of muzzles in various dogs, even in the same breeds. Couldn't bears have different muzzles too? Hell, there's even a 'Tom's Rhinoplasty' in South Park. That's one damn big bear. Words fail me. |
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Posted: 11/17/2001 5:11:52 PM EDT
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Yeah.....big bears do exist but the pic looks doctored to me.
I am no expert on scale but look at the relative distance between the bears eye sockets...compare that to the guys chest.....then look at the bears nose........compare that to the guys face. Is a big bears big bear nose as big and a normal guys head? The front paw looks more realistic. I dunno........... Still makes me trickle my skivvies |
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Posted: 11/17/2001 5:36:31 PM EDT
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It looks like the pictures were taken with a disposable/cheap camera. They tend to have short lens. Even with 35mm lens you get some "ballooning" (I forget the technical term) where objects closer to the lens are disproportionately larger.
The opposite effect of "Objects In This Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear". Not saying that this is "it", just saying that it's possible this effect could be playing a part. It could be doctored, but my immature, innefectual efforts at Photoshop tell me that it *seems* unmolested. I used to play with cameras before I found out how much more fun guns were. |
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Posted: 11/17/2001 7:09:03 PM EDT
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Nose and lower jaw are wrong IMHO
cpermd |
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Posted: 11/17/2001 11:14:00 PM EDT
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A 30 round mag from an AR might not but a 4 round mag and another up the spout for a Marlin 1895 45-70 will, with the right load, if you have balls of iron and can work that lever like a mad man. 35 yards is real close.
Great puppy BTW. |
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Posted: 11/18/2001 9:24:49 AM EDT
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Naw, that's just a little pot licker - now back in '05, me and my daddy was tracking a coon through the swamp and ...
...bigger than a Bluebird School bus... ... killed him deader than hell with .22 short, after our old bluetick chewed him up... ... took us the better part of a week to haul the monster out... ... put the hide up next to his daddy's, that was 2 foot wider! |
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Posted: 11/18/2001 9:26:49 AM EDT
[#11]
That's a big bear.
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Posted: 11/18/2001 10:14:07 AM EDT
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I have no idea if it is real or not. I got the photo/story in an email and don't know the guy. That was my first thought also, (right after "Good Lord!") that it might be a fake...not sure...the things that stand out is that there is quite a bit of blood about and that paw looks real. If it is a fake, it's a good one! [:)]
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Posted: 11/18/2001 10:28:20 AM EDT
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Did some looking and Alaskan brown bears CAN get to 1,400-1,500 pounds from what a couple of sites said. And they can run at 30 m.p.h. Might be a fake...or the photos and story may not be from the same source...
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Posted: 11/18/2001 3:17:46 PM EDT
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By the way, I am new here.
It would be nice to know what caliber gun he used to kill this bear. It seems that the .30-06, 300 Magnum, and the .338 Magnum are the most popular cartridges up here (at least in the cities, Anchorage, Fairbanks, etc.), but larger calibers can be found in Kodiak and by the West coastline of Alaska. |
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Posted: 11/18/2001 4:07:52 PM EDT
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I don't think I would care to wrestle a bear THAT damn big
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Posted: 11/18/2001 6:07:59 PM EDT
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Quoted: [size=6][i]HOLY KEE-RIST[/i][/size=6] Man, this guy has big brass ones. And I mean big. Remember the 9mm/45 pistol/bear discussion? Screw that, I'm thinking minigun or 20mm Vulcan. I knew bears got big, but this has got to be one of those steroid sucking freaks of nature like you see on Soloflex commercials. I hate to see it get capped, but I'd hate to see this guy end up bear chow. Oh, I shoot lil bears like that all the time sittin in my tree stand at the deer lease. I tease um by throwing acorns at um and when they get all pissed I zap um with my .22. [:E] |
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Posted: 11/18/2001 7:11:29 PM EDT
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Hmmmm....I use Photoshop every day and I'd say its a legit Pic....
my .02 Bulldog OUT |
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Posted: 11/20/2001 6:19:37 AM EDT
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i too have killed a charging bear, cibola natl forest, new mexico, charged by a black bear, shot it 6 times with a beretta 9mm, fmj ammo, it got to with about 5 feet of me and wife. whole thing took about 2 seconds. but my bear only weighed about 150 lbs, 10 times smaller than the one in the post.
i carry a .45 now. |
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Posted: 11/20/2001 6:34:46 AM EDT
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They story said he walked up on the bear andit charged from 35yrds. How the HEll do yu get that close to a 1600lb 12 bear and not see it!
mike |
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Posted: 11/20/2001 9:25:07 AM EDT
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Follow this link to the facts...
[url]http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?id=71357[/url] |
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