Large AB Grizzly taken while Elk Hunting...Defensive Shooting

The email is fake, the pics went around just as they are now about two or three years ago with a totally different description.

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Justin dohnel on January 12, 2011 - 7:41 pm

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This is real he is my uncle his name is Jesse wallace it was not kileed in Canada it was in alaska on afognik island at the randels hunting lodge
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The quote above is correct I would like to add. Have a look at the following website from the hunting lodge that the poster mentions. Scroll down and you will indeed see this bear.

http://www.huntafognak.com/bearhunt.htm

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So this bear was taken on the Kodiak islands of Alaska.

EDIT* I see the OP changed his post to reflect that.
 
CV32 said:
I know the kind of pics you are referring to, and I agree, they are silly, but to be fair to this particular set of photos, the guys in them are seen sitting immediately adjacent to the bear (instead of way behind it) and when they hold up the paws, you can see that their own arms are bent (instead of held straight out) and you can also see their own hands and fingers for size comparison. I wouldn't put these pics in the same category as the other, exaggerated type. As for weight, I would be surprised if this bear weighs only 600 lb.
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Its the second and fourth pictures I object to, where the camera focuses in close on the paw making it appear huge against the chest of the hunter. The first picture shows the scale much more accurately. When I see this sort of thing, to me it brings the entire sequence into question for. Attempting to determine a bear's weight can be a tricky business, as throughout the year a bear's weight can vary by hundreds of pounds, particularly in the case of the very large ones. A 600 pound grizzly is a significant trophy, but late in the year the same bear might weigh closer to 800. On the Alaskan islands where the temperature is moderated by the ocean, it can be quite late in the year before the bears den up.

That is a very nice bear; I just question if it makes the monster class. Compare it to CC's pics from a couple of years ago. I don't particularly care about trophy size in any case, the value of the hunt comes from the experience of hunting as the drama involved with the stalking of an average trophy in a bear tunnel or in the willows can provide more to brag about than the oversized trophy plucked off a hill side from 200 yards.
 
Let's just wait another couple of years and by then the photo will be recycled as "Huge Grizzly Bear shot in Saskatchewan":D
 
pharaoh2 said:
Can't be Alberta, we have no grizzly left just ask the DNR.....


I saw this several weeks ago and it said it was a Northern BC bear hunt.
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I dont know what Fish and Game cop would have said that but there are grizz everywhere. I dont know about the saddle hills but you can drive through Kananaskis or around banff park or down in the porcupine hills just to name a few spots where they can be found. Ranchers in the porcupine hills have them wander in every spring during calving. Ive also seen pictures from a buddy who went on a packing trip where they stumbled upon a grizzly.

Just thought people ought to be informed before they start wandering the woods thinking theres no grizzly bear.
 
rgoddard said:
I dont know what Fish and Game cop would have said that but there are grizz everywhere. I dont know about the saddle hills but you can drive through Kananaskis or around banff park or down in the porcupine hills just to name a few spots where they can be found. Ranchers in the porcupine hills have them wander in every spring during calving. Ive also seen pictures from a buddy who went on a packing trip where they stumbled upon a grizzly.

Just thought people ought to be informed before they start wandering the woods thinking theres no grizzly bear.
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Pharaoh2 was being sarcastic.
 
YEAH... let's hear it for 5 round mag limits! Good thing he had a full mag or we would be reading a very different story!!! All the more justification to carry a sidearm while hunting.
 
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