LOST TREASURE USA
THE TREASURE HUNTER'S NEWSLETTER
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The downloaded pictures are of
a man who works for the US Forest Service in Alaska and his
trophy bear (killed in self defense.)
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.
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