Looks like a massive head and those teeth are huge!!
The feet of the bear look kinda small though.....I've seen pics of some pretty massive feet using guys bodies as a reference. Maybe the girls didn't like him in Alaska because he had "small feet"
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If he walked all the way rom Alaska his feet would likely be worn down a little more.
The write up in the Rocky History book says that the Skull's score was 29 1/4.
I can attest the this as fact. In 1973 I made a special trip the Prince Alberta, Sask. to a place that doesn't exist any more called Lund's Wildlife Museum
to see if the skull they had on display there was George's. When I got there they said no cameras allowed to my unliking. But there is a glass cases were o containing Grizzly Skulls. On top of the glass care there was a label "Two Record Grizzly Skulls" I spotted the biggest one right away because the left upper canine tooth was broken off. So went out to the truck and got a tape measure. I then stood right over the skull and held the tape over it as good as I could to get measurements. I came up with measurement of over 29". So I was positive that this was the skull from the bear that George had killed.
In the year 2001 I was working in the PA area and asked quite a few locals about the museum. Noone knows for sure what happebned to it but it was gone.
Where the skull went to is now a mysetery. One thing for sure is that if it were entered into the records of North American Big game in th Holy Grail of Hunting, the Boone & Crocket Club it would be a world's recotd evern after 62 years.
I have lots of other information about this bear but it would fill a book.
Every once in a while a thread of this topic comes up and then it will carry on for days. If anyone wants to ask me a question regarding this I will be glad to answer it as best I can. Also aside from killing the biggest Grizzly George Bugbee was a real colorful caracter.
I don't know if you can buy one. They have prop bably been out of print
long ago. The Rocky Mountain House Museum has a copy.
Happy New Year.
Story has been re-produced many times, like the picture. Have a photo copy of a photo copy, but the quality is too poor to re-produce.
Grizz
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perhaps those men are only 5'5" and its a big ol' stump!
Yeah, definitely Photoshopped.
Grizz
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"Indeed, no human being has yet lived under conditions which, considering the prevailing climates of the past, can be regarded as normal."
John E. Pfeiffer The Emergence of Man
written in 1969
The write up in the Rocky History book says that the Skull's score was 29 1/4.
I can attest the this as fact. In 1973 I made a special trip the Prince Alberta, Sask. to a place that doesn't exist any more called Lund's Wildlife Museum
to see if the skull they had on display there was George's. When I got there they said no cameras allowed to my unliking. But there is a glass cases were o containing Grizzly Skulls. On top of the glass care there was a label "Two Record Grizzly Skulls" I spotted the biggest one right away because the left upper canine tooth was broken off. So went out to the truck and got a tape measure. I then stood right over the skull and held the tape over it as good as I could to get measurements. I came up with measurement of over 29". So I was positive that this was the skull from the bear that George had killed.
In the year 2001 I was working in the PA area and asked quite a few locals about the museum. Noone knows for sure what happebned to it but it was gone.
Where the skull went to is now a mysetery. One thing for sure is that if it were entered into the records of North American Big game in th Holy Grail of Hunting, the Boone & Crocket Club it would be a world's recotd evern after 62 years.
I have lots of other information about this bear but it would fill a book.
Every once in a while a thread of this topic comes up and then it will carry on for days. If anyone wants to ask me a question regarding this I will be glad to answer it as best I can. Also aside from killing the biggest Grizzly George Bugbee was a real colorful caracter.
any pics would be really cool as we only have a few different ones of george and the bear.... any stories are awsome to hear aswell i would be more then happy to listen to any info u have as our family is still interested in finding the bear...... alittle side note i was speaking with my grandmother(his daughter) and she siad that there is no chance that the hide would have spoil as they told my great gramma when she went to lunds because he was such a professional and did it with great pride that nothing of his spoiled
Not meaning to hijack the thread, but it does raise a couple of questions. There was a post mentioning Slave hills and prairie grizzly, so my question is Are the Slave hills bears the last of the prairie grizzlys?
I remember hearing a story about a native woman shooting a record bear from her doorstep with a 22. This was supposed to have taken place in the late 60s. Anybody else hear this one?
Here is a grizzly taken in 1945.By Edson wmu 346 swansons road.Took a pic of the article.From a Jan/Feb 2000 issue of the outdoor edge.The bear was hanging around the logging camps.One of the hunters from one the camps started hunting the bear.Finally shot it a few days later.He shot it with a 30-30 at dusk.Next day they found it.It was hauled by cat and sled to one the camps and weighed.Its weight was 1800 pounds.
Not meaning to hijack the thread, but it does raise a couple of questions. There was a post mentioning Slave hills and prairie grizzly, so my question is Are the Slave hills bears the last of the prairie grizzlys?
I remember hearing a story about a native woman shooting a record bear from her doorstep with a 22. This was supposed to have taken place in the late 60s. Anybody else hear this one?
Bella Twin. Seem to be some variations on the story, but it's remarkable.
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"Indeed, no human being has yet lived under conditions which, considering the prevailing climates of the past, can be regarded as normal."
John E. Pfeiffer The Emergence of Man
written in 1969
Not meaning to hijack the thread, but it does raise a couple of questions. There was a post mentioning Slave hills and prairie grizzly, so my question is Are the Slave hills bears the last of the prairie grizzlys?
I remember hearing a story about a native woman shooting a record bear from her doorstep with a 22. This was supposed to have taken place in the late 60s. Anybody else hear this one?
From what I have heard, this is the Grizzly that is at the Kinuso museum.
An Alaskan Brown Bear IS a grizzly... genetically there is no difference; the difference is that the so-called brown bear is just a well fed grizzly... easy pickings of salmon have a tendency to do that.
Can an Alaskan Brown Bear make it to Alberta?
Consider that about 18 or so years ago, there was a report of an extremely large grizzly up on the Wapiti River in the Peace River area.
F&W tagged that bear.
3 months later it was dead... shot in the Alaskan panhandle.
Don't ask me why that crazy old bear thought it was better feeding time in Alberta, or if he was seduced by some sexy female.
All I know is that he decided to go back where the eating was good, and try and get lucky with the local ladies.
Was this the behemoth that was discovered south of Grovedale and relocated to the Chinchaga?
Do you have any more information regarding this incident?
Was this the behemoth that was discovered south of Grovedale and relocated to the Chinchaga?
Do you have any more information regarding this incident?
Not sure of the entire sequence of events, as this was comments made to me buy some fish and wildlife biologists two decades or so ago. The bear may very well have been relocated to the Chin.
Not sure of the entire sequence of events, as this was comments made to me buy some fish and wildlife biologists two decades or so ago. The bear may very well have been relocated to the Chin.
I remember -- about 18-20 years or so ago, similar to your timeline -- that F&W relocated an 815-lb tank from just south of Grovedale to the Chin. The story was in the Herald Tribune. I wound up seeing a photo F&W took -- the bear might as well have been a Volkswagen.
I think our banned Sheepguide has the rifle. Some mystery as to what happened to thehide and skull.
Grizz
A buddy of mine that I work with has told me about this bear, it was his great uncle who had shot it, there is a second photo as well (not sure if on the internet.) He said that the hide and skull was mailed to get it tanned and finished but was stolen by someone in the mailing process!
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