Really grizzly bear story

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Alaskan peninsula.

Man and girlfriend killed, eaten, buried. Pilot of floatplane takes two rangers to scene, they shoot one over site, another stalking them shortly thereafter ( using "large caliber rifle" ).

Timothy Treadwell, founder of Grizzly People and noted for talks on Brown bears in schools, co-author of book on bears dead. Conservationists had previously pointed to his activities as in effect asking for it. Treadwell reportedly went within touching distance of the bears repeatedly.

Was former heroin addict who got into the bears trying to find something to keep from returning to the habit.

There is at least a partial audio of 5-6 minutes being transcribed from video camera turned on but lens cap not removed by girlfriend at start of attack. Release of transcript not anticipated.

He was apparently attacked first and she was attacked later. Apparently happened Sunday and discovered by floatplane pilot Monday who went there to pick them up.

Reliabiliy of any information cited above is unverified.

Bear and animal stories alway generate much interest here. Have at it.
 
Notwithstanding the tragedy of the deaths, that WAS asking for it. The only way you'd get me within touching distance of a grizzly bear is if it's laid out at my feet before a nice, warm fireplace.
 
The only grizzly story I know is this one. Fellow was ambushed and leaped on by grizzly. Only thing the guy was able to do was grab the grizzly by its private parts and squeeze like hell. The grizzly suddenly let go and the man scrambled up and ran. He stopped at the bottom of the hill, looked back, and the grizzly was waving at him and beckoning him to return.
 
So it might as well be here...

Having spent a little time in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Yukon, and Alaska (not to mention in the Sierra's here in California with our large 'Golden black bears')

It's a G@d Da^m bear for Christ's sake! Leave it alone, walk the other way, don't get eaten, and live another day...or, carry the appropriate firearm (with the appropriate ammo), and hope you just/get/lucky!

(I was up in the Idaho 'Palisades' when that little black bugger came sniffing up my coal cooked trout, .308 Ruger M77, .44 Mag. Marlin 336, and .357 Ruger GP-100 at hand, all loaded with +p solids, and I still had a heck of a time explaining to him that those fish were mine, and he'd just have to go catch his own...lol)

To wit; If you want to hug a tree, you may get splinters...if you want to hug a bear, you may get eaten...enough said about the collective defective mentality of the meandering herd already... ;)

Mel
 
My 870 loaded with sabot slugs would probably have enough penetration for getting through to the brain...

Anybody seen the commercials for Disney's "Brother Bear"??? :rolleyes: :barf: :footinmou
 
Last time I was in Wyoming visiting my Godfather we went to do some scouting (he's a guide) and I picked some mountain flowers for my wife (some of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen.):D When I stepped out of the truck my Godfather handed me a S&W .44 mag (in addition to the 1911 I was carrying), "bears" was his answer to my puzzled look as he uncased his .358 Enterkin. "Yeah yeah yeah" :rolleyes: I noticed about half a freshly mauled cow :eek: and I picked flowers very quickly and hopped back into the truck.:footinmou That night his catahoula hounds were going ape, I heard him stirring around the house, I got up to see what the ruckus was about, a grizzly was high tailing it out of his yard with Boo Dawg and Sally hot on his a@@ :eek: :eek:

I ain't afeered of much on this planet, but that encounter and just viewing the mauled carcass was enough for me. What was the last thing going through that guy's mind? :confused: Bear teeth. :D
 
When I saw the story about this bear hugging idiot, I recalled a story from the mid 1950's about the 5th largest grizzly bear ever taken at the time. It was killed by a scared young teenage Indian girl up in Canada with a .22 rimfire single shot rifle.

She was out walking with her boyfriend near Lesser Slave Lake when this absolutely huge grizzly, sort of looked like a furry Volkswagen with teeth and claws, wandered near. They tried hiding behind some bushes but it had obviously picked up their scent as it stopped and started sniffing the air and looking around for it's next meal.

They knew better than to run, since on flat ground a grizzly can travel at up to about 40 mph. So, figuring it was do something or die, in an act of desperation she loaded one of her only 7 rounds of .22 long rimfire (not the more potent long rifle) solid point ammunition in her old, single shot, bolt action .22 rifle, took aim at a spot on the bear's head, fired, and the huge bear went down like a dropped sack of wet cement.

She cautiously walked up to the bear and, one by one, loaded and fired her remaining 6 rounds of .22 long ammo into the bear's brain - just to be sure.
 
There was a write up in the knife magazines a few years ago about a hunter in Alaska, I think Kodiak but not positive. The guy(in his 60's) had just shot a deer and had laid his gun down when the bear attacked. The bear was between him and his gun. He started stabbing the bear around the eyes and face with his Buck 110 but the bear really ripped him up. As he finally was able to reach his gun he had to move the loose shredded skin hanging off his arms from the breech before he could shoot. He did survive, though really ripped up. Buck has the knife he used on display in their facility with pictures of the guy.
The part of the article that really amazed me was that they said this is happening more and more often because the bears are hungry. Seems that Japanese salmon fishing boats are using nets 20 miles wide(!) and hardly any fish are coming through. The bears have learned that when they hear a shot it usually means there's a deer to eat.
 
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She definitely died, according to her in the most peaceful place on earth.

I think that was the last line in the article that Kis linked. I don't understand that sentence. Two people mauled by bears in the most peaceful place on earth? Or was it a commentary on how unpeaceful the world is? :confused:
 
Originally posted by BruiseLeee
She definitely died, according to her in the most peaceful place on earth.

I think that was the last line in the article that Kis linked. I don't understand that sentence. Two people mauled by bears in the most peaceful place on earth? Or was it a commentary on how unpeaceful the world is? :confused:
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Probably the area they were camping in.
 
We had some Dumbass Okie (Can I say That?:rolleyes: ) down on our Illinois River where the little black bears are returning try to take some fish away from a bear.
Yup!!!! The dumbass saw this bear fishing very successfully on a gravel bar and decided that He wanted/needed the fish worse than the bear.
Didn't take the dumbass long to let go and get away after the bear told him a resounding NO!!!! with a backhand across his Dumbass Okie Head!!!!:D
He may have even been a Dumbass NDN!!!!:rolleyes: ;) :D

Edited for smilie mistake.:rolleyes:
 
A professional wildlife photographer in one of the camera magazines talked about how he got started.
He got a camera with the standard 50mm lens as a preseant. You may not know, but a 50mm lens has less magnification than your eye. So this guy goes to a park and sees a bear in the distance, looks through the camera, decides the bear's too far away. so he walks closer, bear's still to far away. He kept doing this until the bear was nice and big in the view finder.

Then the bear looked at him.


That's when our budding photographer back off. Then he bought a LONG lens.
 
Originally posted by Red
That's when our budding photographer back off. Then he bought a LONG lens.
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:D

You say I can attach my camera to this here telescope? You say I can photograph craters on the moon? I'm gonna shoot bears. Got anything bigger??? :D :p
 
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