re: Very cool pictures

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I've never encountered a live Grizzly (thankfully) but did see a stuffed one in a museum once similar to this

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There's a stuffed Kodiak bear in a mall in Anchorage and (seriously) it makes this Griz look tame; taller, wider and longer claws. It's a really cool display (like this one too).

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There's a stuffed Kodiak bear in a mall in Anchorage and (seriously) it makes this Griz look tame; taller, wider and longer claws. It's a really cool display (like this one too).

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I lived in Alaska for a year back when I was a teen. I had a buddy at school who's dad was bigtime into hunting Kodiaks. I remember he'd come back down to Ketchikan from a hunting trip up north and brought back a Kodiak to have stuffed at a local taxidermist. One night a bunch of us were hanging out at their house when the taxidermist called and told my friend's dad that he had to come down and look at what he'd just found. He let us come with him and when we got there the taxidermist showed us this bear's skull which was just freaking massive. Right in the middle of the forehead there was this big bump. He took a saw and cut it out and retrieved what he estimated was a 30-06 bullet that someone had shot the bear in the head sometime in in the past. The bullet went into but not all the way through the bear's skull and the skull had healed back around the bullet. Shows you how freaking huge and just how hard to kill they are.

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They move like ninjas, making it a point to step in previous bear tracks to prevent making noise. My GSD is light as hell on his feet, and makes more noise than a Griz.

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Down in the southeast of Alaska where I lived we didn't have any Grizzy bear but there were a lot of black bears. I remember one day were were out fishing and saw one swimming between islands. It was amazing to see just how fast it could swim. If a person were in the water, no way they could get away from it.

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You may want to take out the arse crack pic.

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gay

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One has to wonder how you go about finding a model that will allow you to do this.

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Bitches love money and attention, so not near as hard as one would think.

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Kodiaks are badder than any OT baller. That's some story about one being shot in the head and the bullet didn't completely penetrate the skull. If I ever went Kodiak hunting I'm reasonably sure a bazooka would be my weapon of choice.

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I'm going off memory here and it's been over 25 years ago but I believe his dad used a .300 Weatherby to hunt Kodiak.

I remember one funny conversation his dad had with a guy at a cookout. They were talking bear hunting and this guy said he'd like to go bear hunting with his Dan Wesson .357. My friend's dad told him the only use he'd get out of a .357 is to shoot whoever was with him in the leg so the bear would get them while he got away.

I saw that carved mammoth tusk in vegas this summer. It was in a glass case just to the left as you enter Treasure Island Casino. I took a few pics of it with my phone. It is really amazing the detail that was carved into it. If I am not mistaken it was more like generations than years carving it as the armor and weapons of the soldiers changed as time went on and the carving continued.

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