Had a High Standard Sharpshooter. The killing took place on October 14, 2019, in Morris County, New Jersey, and is believed to be a world record. I had undoubtedly taken one of the largest interior grizzly bears in the world, ironically, with my Bears Paw recurve and Grizzly broadheads. The guy was in the tree all night. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. Tests later revealed that the elephant was killed by a CZ .22 LR rifle. Grizzly Bear Yellowstone is home to both grizzly bears (above) and black bears. In the spring, the bears make their way down out of the mountains into the willow-choked rivers in search of newborn moose calves. This way loud centerfire shots would not affect other Moose in the vicinity for the clients ~! My Uncle Arthur, his Father also named Arthur. Grizzly bears are protected in Idaho by state and federal law. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. There were numerous accounts in National Geographic several years ago that told of Alaskan natives who would bait polar bears to a small mound of snow. That bear, killed in 1953, was the world-record grizzly for several years and is still high in the records today. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Service. had a single shot .22 and a box of shorts. That obviously would not have been a good choice ! We do not know what year the picture was taken. The genetics are still on the landscape, and the bears have not been pursued by hunters since the close of the 2005 season. Think about this. Mathews Halon, GrizzlyStik Momentum arrows, and Massai 200 broadheads. The skull, used as a measurement, is housed in a small museum on the Eben-Ebenau homestead. Published May 2, 2022 4:00 PM EDT. "At some point, a bear had dragged him down to the river," Lt. Cmdr. They had a big rifle as a backup. Bella Twin and her partner Dave Auger were going to make hunting history. Hard to get more Canadian than that. Another account says that the bear was dropped with one .22-long cartridge, but that another 7 or 8 shots were used to be sure that the bear stayed down. A Franco-Canadian man died after being attacked by a grizzly bear in a remote area of Canada last week, police announced on Monday. One charged him and he turned around to get his rifle from his trusty gun bearer only to find that the gun bearer was gone. I suspect that she was tracking the bear in her sights. I would not shoot a bear with a 22 because it might must make him mad and then what would I do? Lawrence had never seen anything that big. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. He weighed close to 1,089 kg (2,400 lb) one year before his death. No hydrostatic shock. Another version claimed that a park ranger shot the giant bear after it charged him from 50 yards away. The hide has been tanned. Which begs the question: Why arent more bird hunters using them? The only gun they had was Bellas single-shot bolt-action .22 Rimfire rifle. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". The Safari Club International Record Book The bear died, but it took some time to do so, as told by game warden Louis Kis. Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet. One shot to the brain at contact distance will kill instantly. Bella Twins grandson became an award winning author. Another story of a woman surviving a grizzly attack using a .22, this time with a Baretta .22 pistol. She and her husband were hiking through the woods, when they came upon a mother grizzly with a cub. I told myself, Youve got to calm down, Tyler. Almost my entire family (military vets included) carries a .22lr. Can you imagine devoting your entire professional life to pursuing big bears? A current CCI Standard Velocity Long Rifle, at 1070 feet per second has 3 percent more energy than the 1953 High Velocity long. He never knew her and visited her once, for he was in an orphanage until he was 12 when he left. The current World's Record grizzly bear is 26 3/16, taken in Unalakleet, Alaska in 2004 by Dennis Dunn. From its relatively quiet approach, I assumed it was one of the black bears; every time it made a noise, the grizzly would look in that direction and become more and more agitated. I knew he wouldnt go far, as I could hear him sucking air through the wound. Experienced hunters will take advantage of concealment if it is available. Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual Im a firm believer that some of our hunting memories can only be truly appreciated in time. She paid the insurance. Dont assume a large animal is dead. Bella Twins bear rifle was a .22 caliber single shot Cooey Ace 1. They got gear that will handle the big stuff. Ive observed that grizzlies behave completely differently around bait than black bears do. My money is on it being a Cooeygood ol Canadian classic. The big grizzly dropped, kicked and then lay still. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. The article showed numerous bear skulls with the small holes in them. Some say a . Yes! It fell 7/16 of an inch short of the current overall Boone & Crockett record grizzly bear--a skull found in Alaska back in 1976 that measured 27 and 13/16 inches. In my research, it appears that somewhere, there is a picture of the bears skull, showing 8 or 9 holes. All accounts agree on that. Bella Twin killed that World Record Grizzly Bear in 1953 using 22 Long (not Long Rifle) cartridges. A reward of $40,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and a conviction in the most recent case. I have been in contact with the curator of the museum and requested a nice color picture of the gun and he will get me one once they move to their new building and unbox all the exhibits. I believe the bear was on all fours when it was shot. The long would have fired a 29 grain bullet at 1240 feet per second. or Dominion High Velocity cartridges. I immediately pulled the trail-cam card. I was 15 years old , healthy ,nimble , fast and very lucky . It probably never occurred to her that the performance of the round is considered an almost ridiculous mismatch against her oppressor. She aimed at the weakest point in the side of the skull and fired her Cooey, loaded with a single round of .22 Long. Julien Gauthier, a 44-year-old musician, was surprised by the . It weighed 1200 pounds at the time of its death. Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Advertisement" category . Pure serendipity. Over the past several years, the area where my hunting buddies and I bait black bears has become overrun with grizzlies. Rolf Voss of Surrey, British Columbia, had shot a caribou near Fort Nelson, in the north-central part of the province, and was carrying parts of the carcass back to his camp in wooded mountain country when a grizzly, perhaps smelling the meat, attacked him. I also didnt realize how luck I was to be able to get an arrow in him. The few times Ive seen big grizzlies on a bait in person, they were as spooky as the wariest whitetail; if they smell you, you will never know they were there. The story says the distance was a few yards, and so with a decent view of the target it would not be a tall tale at all. And when he did, she put a bullet through the soft pallet of the roof of his mouth, into the brain, killing him instantly. One study found that the average weight for a coastal male was around 408 kg (899 lb), and . Future records should include sex, date killed, location taken, hunter name, and observer names for the scale weight. Bella made sure. If they ran, the bear would probably notice them and might chase, so they quietly sat down on a brush pile and hoped that the bear would pass by without trouble. Lawrence knew from the elders that this was a bad sign. Bella made sure. 203 1/8. Some folks say it was Dave Auger, Twins companion that killed the bear. The largest grizzly bear ever taken by a hunter has been entered into the Boone and Crockett record book. My education on the ease of grizzly baiting involved night after night of sitting in a stand, waiting for bears my trail cams told me were in the neighborhood but that never showed up. Make sure. The oldest known wild Kodiak bear was a 34-year-old sow. Taking the new World Record brown bear with my bow was just a bonus. I held my bow ready to draw. It was good that the weather was cool. The bear was brought down with a single shot but she took a a few more shots for insurance. It's still a really interesting story. The guide located a qualifying bull at about 100 yards and pointed it out to the old gentleman. Here is a close up of the rifle. I knew it was a trap question, but I answered anyway. They weigh up to 1,500 pounds. Same as a .22LR. Early 1960s, North Fork of the the Flathead river in Montana, .22 H&R 9 shot revolver, grizzly bear. The Buffalo was gone next morning. Not exactly a quick stopper! While the bear was busy eating the bait the hunter would rise up and place a 22 against its head and the rest was history. She too is a writer and here is an excerpt from what she wrote for the Lakeside Leader of Slave Lake: Bella Twin, who lived on Rabbit Hill overlooking Slave Lake, shot the biggest grizzly bear in North America on May 10, 1953. The subspecies U. a. horribilis is limited to North America and . All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the H.V. I can say the same about my first interior grizzly, which was a bear Id seen and had pictures of in previous years as he and other grizzlies overran our black bear baits. 145. It appears to be an inexpensive boys type .22 bolt action single shot. Amazing story. Immediately, the hugh bear began to show hostility. At dawn, temperature had been 40 degrees F. On the morning of the 11th it would be 35 degrees F. The high for the 10th was 58 degrees. Ive neverRead more , I doubt that a 22 rimfire shot will kill if the bullet strike the skull BUT A SHOT INTO THE BRAIN will kill. Who could blame her?. Another collector purchased the bear skull and had it sent in for measurement, which is how it made the record books. Anxiously, I scanned through the pictures, and suddenly, there he was. For a while, I thought it might be a Tobin, but it clearly is not. However, the validity of this . The wind was from the NE, at 12 to 24 mph. We used to see only black bears, but in 2011, I had pictures of more than 15 different grizzlies on my trail cameras. Although I have killed several more grizzlies in the following years, nothing comes close this bear. Damn,she could be in age from a little girl to 67 years old ? They were about seven miles South of Slave Lake. He had been there for a couple of minutes when I heard another bear coming in. If they ran, the bear would probably notice them and might chase, so they quietly sat down on a brush pile and hoped that the bear would pass by without trouble. Bella Twin, a Cree Indian, and her partner, Dave Auger, were hunting small game south of Slave Lake, in Alberta, Canada. They were not picking berries. It was reportedly 12 feet, 6 inches at the shoulder, no less and weighed at least 1,600 pounds. the story went she calmly put a a 22 LR from a pistol while it was stuck in the window through its ear and it dropped. She had been a trapper and a hunter for decades. Here are Five reasons to own a .22 rifle). See a cow or a hog being processed? Vimeo installs this cookie to collect tracking information by setting a unique ID to embed videos to the website. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Leon Pantenburg is a wilderness enthusiast and writer. The skull has to be allowed to dry and shrink for three . some few years ago i came across a blog that told of an Inuit grandmother taking down a brown bear that was trying to claw its way into her cabin (seems ineffectually). On March 8, a female elephant, aged between seven and 10 years old, was found dead near a creek in Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand. If she saw a grizzly coming toward her, she would run like the wind in the opposite direction. Stent: Bella Twin, an Indian girl, and her friend Dave Auger were hunting grouse near Lesser Slave Lake in northern Alberta. Youtube - Track the views of embedded videos. Never, in my wildest flights of imagination, could I imagine putting down a wild grizzly bear with a .22. The bear dropped dead, but because Twin knew what she was up againstput seven more rounds into the bear skullseven insurance shots. Here is a close up of the rifle. It did not qualify for Pope and Young because Debias used a Lumenok on his arrow. She was born in 1890. 274 7/8. if you are going to cut the main arteries and veins in the neck but I think that at least a .38 is used on cattle.The only safe shot would be in the ear hole going right to the brain. The Rifle used by Bella Twin is a Cooey Ace 1. Bella sold the hide and her rifle to a museum. The question is, what rifle is she holding? It was used to scale the estimate. Debias' impressive grizzly has an initial P&Y score of 27 3/16", which is a full inch . Or nightmares, depending on your perspective. And on butchering day, the tool used to euthanize a hog or steer was a .22 rifle. 16 01/16. The following spring, I shot a black bear that I could tell was big, but even when we squared the hide at 8-feet even, I didnt know what I had. Amazing. After some pictures, we started skinning at 2:30 a.m. We finally got all of the meat and the hundred-pound hide loaded into my river boat at 7:30, with little room or energy to spare. Cant imagine that choice of need to shoot or not and ones survival counted on it. They made it out alive. The place to aim was between the eyes, about an inch up. When we talk about shot placement we mean understanding anatomy as much as we mean marksmanship. The biggest interior grizzly bear ever killed by a bowhunter was shot in May 2009 by Pennsylvania hunter Rob Debias. The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. 13. We just stood there staring at him. Peter Capstick wrote in one of his African books about 2 young men taking a bull elephant with a .22 long rifle. We heard his last breaths as he expired, and I sat there in awe, still pumped full of adrenalineastonished but grinning from ear to ear. After all the nights Id laid awake dreaming of getting that big bear with my recurve, I would finally be able to try. In the top picture by Engler, the rifle is missing the bolt. I'm glad it killed the bear, however, That had to be a very sick feeling to realize that your life depended on a single shot 22, long at that! In October 2001, a hunter legally shot a bear on Hinchinbrook Island off Alaska's southern coast. Maybe NOT, POF 5PK MP5 The Budget Reverse-Stretch Semi Auto from Pakistan, Ammo InStock: PMC Bronze 223 Rem 55 Grain FMJ Ammo 1000 Rounds $397.00 FREE S&H, Survival Deal: Thyrosafe Potassium Radioactive Iodide Tablets $21.95 FREE S&H, Gun Deals: Beretta A300 Ultima Patrol 12 Gauge Shotgun $949.00 FREE S&H, Brownells Coupon Codes www.brownells.com Updated Monthly. Roland Eben-Ebenau was kind enough to photograph the grizzly skull from his family's museum collection. Reinhold, a well-known hunting guide, learned that he had shot the biggest grizzly in North America. The most plausible: they were hunting small game along a cutline for oil exploration. Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features. I have had a few friends ask me who do you think you would hurt with that little thing, and I always say it will kill you just as dead as if I shot you with a cannon. The guide was dismayed, but took him out anyway. The CCI Standard Velocity generates 102 foot pounds. Grizzly 399 is the most famous brown bear mother in the world, with her own Facebook and Twitter accounts. That record was in place for some time. We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. The big bruin, taken in 2013 near Fairbanks, Alaska, by Larry Fitzgerald of Fairbanks. I dont take my ink lightly. Ill trust the judgement of someone who lived up there and had decades of experience as a hunter and trapper. I would love to see .22 Plinkster recreate that shot. Ever live on a farm? The day was close to 16 hours long at Slave Lake on 10 May, 1953. 26 03/16. Sheet! The forearm is quite short. The wooden gun stock was well-worn and broken, attached to the barrelled action with hockey tape. Author Larry Loyie, Bellas grandson, was proud of his grandmother. Bella was technically Larrys great aunt, Kokum to Larry. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. It was a very accurate little shooter, & accounted for many sparrows, starlings, & not a few squirrels. Bella Twin was a strong and competent woman, despite her tiny size. My speculation was that she was surprised. I was both ecstatic and nervous at hearing this, for the flats along the south side of the Tanana River that hold the Kantishna, Toklat, Teklanika, and Nenana tributaries are prime grizzly real estate. If you test them in water jugs or gel you will see why. That cartridge has killed many grizzlies and browns. I live in Lesser Slave Lake and this is a story that can be confirmed by many townspeople that have lived here since before 1950. I could not forget this bear. By clicking Accept All, you consent to the use of ALL the cookies. Animals will often stop and sniff to try to identify a scent. Also the first gun I shot ! The __gads cookie, set by Google, is stored under DoubleClick domain and tracks the number of times users see an advert, measures the success of the campaign and calculates its revenue. A bear shot on the Kenai just last fall. She was known to be a deadly shot with the small rifle. Englers photo, above, cuts off the bottom and sides of the hide, but we can estimate what the bear hide measurement would be. According to the orgnaization, a Special Panel of Judges in Harrisburg,. He waited until the bull grazed to within 75 yards or less and dropped the 1 ton bull with one well placed shot to the brain. Alaska Peninsula brown bears are among the largest types of brown bear in the world. October 28, 2019 4796 Save 13 Photographs and an accompanying story of a guy who had just killed a massive world record bear in 2001. He lives in Fairbanks, Alaska and has been covering a variety of topics for OL for more than a decade. I was ecstatic to get my first big game animala bull moose with 60-inch-wide antlersbut I didnt truly appreciate how nice of a bull he was. But that women sure got big Balls. The bolt was so rusted the action wouldnt work. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience. To finally be able to encounter and possess him was an indescribable feeling. I knew that at any moment, the grizzly would jump up and charge after the approaching black bear, and I might not see him again. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. I believe this outcome must have been miraculous and that God was with her. That bear was done in by what used to be known in some circles as a golden BB.. He ended up emptying his gun on the bear, which dropped 10 yards from him. Larry died April 8, 2016, but he left behind a legacy of wonderful stories, some of which are in the process of being published by his loving wife Constance Brissenden, who is honoring him with a post-humous publication of his work. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". His Dad killed a few big bears in the slave lake area and well may have had his eye on this bear for himself or one of his clients. A possible fatality supposedly occurred in 1907 when a man was attacked by a female grizzly bear after he prodded her cub with an umbrella. It was a shot to the big arteries out of the heart. Tyler Freel is a Staff Writer for Outdoor Life. "the big brown bear came lolloping over the mountain", FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson. posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its The largest taken by a hunter, a. Dont mess with country girls. Dont know what gun this little girl or old lady is holding but it aint a Stevens ! I quickly found out that this was anything but true. (Elephant killing probe heats up, Bangkok Post, March 26, 2013, by TERRY FREDRICKSON). The man emptied his semi-automatic 7mm magnum rifle into the bear, killing it in the nick of time. The bear dropped like a rock. I have a friend that tells of dropping a bull moose with one shot from a .22 magnum from 100 yrds, right behind the front leg. I had experienced the greatest adventure of my life while spending two weeks with my friends in the Alaskan bush. Looks just like my Pops old Springfield 15Y he got from Sears Roebuck for $2.98 before WWII and used on his trapline. My pulse quickened at the realization that I very well might be getting a chance at what I had come to think of as my bear. The man-eating monster Alaska bear that refuses to die in cyberspace was shot in fall 2001 on Prince William Sound's Hinchinbrook Island by a then-22-year-old airman from Eielson Air Force Base . A .22 Cooey with a missing bolt. Bear killed the brown with a recurve and cedar arrows tipped with his signature broadheads. Another story was that they saw the bear coming towards them. People said two things. Ill bet a crisp fifty-dollar bill that they were .22-shorts. Dont mess with country girls. 2017 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice and link are included. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.
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