BIG BEN

[cheranne]

He was out deer

hunting last week when a large grizzly bear charged him from about 50

yards away. The guy emptied his 7mm Magnum semi-automatic rifle

into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The big bear was

still alive so he reloaded and shot it several times in the head.

The bear was

just over one thousand six hundred pounds. It stood 12' 6"

high at the shoulder, 14' to the top of his head. It's the largest

grizzly bear ever recorded in the world.

Of course, the

Alaska Fish and Wildlife Commission did not let him keep it as a trophy,

but the bear will be stuffed and mounted, and placed on display at the

Anchorage airport to remind tourists of the risks involved when in the

wild.

Based

on the contents of the bears stomach, the Fish and Wildlife Commission

established the bear had killed at least two humans in the past 72 hours

including a missing hiker.

The

US Forest Service, backtracking from where the bear had originated, found

the hiker's 38-caliber pistol emptied. Not far from the pistol were

the remains of the hiker. The other body has not been found.

Although

the hiker fired six shots and managed to hit the grizzly with four shots

(the Service ultimately found four 38 caliber slugs along with twelve 7mm

slugs inside the bear's dead body), it only wounded the bear and probably

angered it immensely.

The

bear killed the hiker an estimated two days prior to the bear's own death

by the gun of the Forest Service worker.

Think

about this:

If you are an average size man; You would be level with the bear's navel

when he stood upright. The bear would look you in the eye when it

walked on all fours! To give additional perspective, consider that

this particular bear, standing on its hind legs, could walk up to an

average single story house and look over the roof, or walk up to a two

story house and look in the bedroom windows.

[Watered Garden]

That is scary!

I don't go hiking around where I think I might meet something that would consider me just another item a little lower down on the food chain.

WG