This one's for you, Tony... best not to get swatted by one either!
Northern Alberta Grizzly; got too close for comfort for a couple elk hunters. I think they said it was 1300 pounds...
This one's for you, Tony... best not to get swatted by one either!
Northern Alberta Grizzly; got too close for comfort for a couple elk hunters. I think they said it was 1300 pounds...
WOW !!!! Us Brits are lucky we don't know what its like to be lower in the food chain than our cousins across the pond. I suppose it was a case of shoot or be eaten !
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Yeah, Sapper, I found out some info on it...the guys were calling elk and the bear responded to the call; it closed in to within 8 yards before they dropped it!
It stood just under 12' on it's hind legs. Apparently it had killed several horses and cows in the area; fish & wildlife people set a cage trap, but he was too big
to go in the trap. With that thing roaming the neighbourhood, I wouldn't go to the mailbox without my rifle!
[QUOTE=treefrog;61395 it closed in to within 8 yards before they dropped it!.......It stood just under 12' on it's hind legs. [/QUOTE]
So a mere 2 body lengths away.....an animal weighing in at 1200 pounds, that can run at 25+ mph !!! Sheesh thats barely enough thinking time
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Going by your info, TreeFrog, that thing was nearly twice the height and almost 3 times the weight of the biggest black bear I've ever seen in the wild here in the Adirondacks of New York. (And I was estimating on the light side, I think...) I probably would have soiled myself in the act of unloading my rifle at him, that's one monstrous paw there. Very glad we don't have them in my neck of the woods.
Josh
Wow..!! That is a big paw..
That is huge!! ... Good chance I would have broke the land speed record gettin out of there!
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I bet your ass was quivering mate!
That is one big beast!
How the hell did you get it outta there?
...Al, you reckon you could take it with a catty? LOL
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Only if the catty could fire a Grenade Paul lol
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