Big Bear shot Saddle Hills Alberta, Sept 20/2010
It looks like Alaska to me. But what do I know?
These two gents were calling elk in the Saddle Hills south of Woking, Alberta when this big guy slipped in on the caller. The Shooter spotted the bear about 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 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 notice on surveillance video that whenever 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 the reap.
Check out the scar tissue on his face.
Bear weighed in just under 1300 pounds and would have stood 11 ¾ feet tall on its hind legs.
I personally have seen a bear this big in North East Washington State. These animals are still out there. So hikers and farmers beware!
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2 comments:
Hey Hip Hick Chick
Just read an article saying the bear was actually shot out in Alaska in 2007. I tend to believe the bear comes from Alaska instead of Alberta, I have seen them both up fairly close (within 300 feet) in the wild. The grizzlies on the coast grow much larger than the Alberta grizzlies, primarily because of the good foraging for food in the avalanche shoots in the spring and salmon in the fall. You are right though, that is one big bear.
Thank you Johnny.
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