Bella Twin is specifically recorded as reporting that she shot it with .22 Longs, not Shorts, not Long Rifles. The Missoula, Montana-based group said Fitzgerald's bear's skull measured a mere 7/16ths of an inch smaller than the world record, which was also killed in Alaska, way back in 1976. Translation: “Snowflakes”… a.k.a. In Larry Loyie’s obituary in the Smoky River Express, Bella Twin is described as a tiny woman. Find out more Bella Twin, I salute you. According to Outdoor Life and the life book of world records, the largest polar bear ever recorded was 2,210 pounds and 11 feet in height. I ACTUALLY SAW THIS BEAR IN PERSON AT A RANCHERS HOUSE- HIS NAME WAS-HE PASSED ON- MR. EBEAN-( SPELLING MAY BE WRONG) HE WAS WELL KNOWN IN SLAVE LAKE,ALBERTA.HIS SON- I THINK IS ROLAND. For a busy man, he kept himself busy In his Masonic work. Gorillas are also killed for the bushmeat trade, or accidently killed or maimed by iron snares that are set in the forests in search for other bushmeat species such as pigs (red river hog). 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. What’s the biggest bear ever killed? Dave Auger was with Bella when she shot the bear. Not far from the pistol was the remains of the hiker. TROPHY STATS. For more trophy records or conservation information, stop by Boone & Crockett . She lost one man and found another. Excellent article. A teddy bear is a stuffed toy in the form of a bear.Developed apparently simultaneously by toymakers Morris Michtom in the U.S. and Richard Steiff in Germany in the early years of the 20th century, and named after President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, the teddy bear became a popular children's toy, celebrated in story, song, and film. It just goes to show what I have always said, “It is not how fast the bullet is going, it is not how big around the bullet is, or the configuration of the bullet; it’s all about bullet placement.” Better a single well-placed .22 than multiple bigger caliber hollow-point, FMJs, copper-solids, plastic tip or any other “modern/magic projectiles just hitting “somewhere” close. “Soy Boys”, “Neck Beards”, “Orbiters”, “Cucks”, etc., …names for men who, back in the day, were commonly called “wimps”, “sissies”, “fairies”, ‘pu%$ies”, “nancy boys”, etc… (for anyone else from my generation) Yep, I’m in my third year of retirement but my youngest son is still in high school. Adult male polar bears generally weigh between 775 and 1,200 pounds. I believe Slave Lake is in the Northwest Territories. This explains the somewhat awkward grip on the Cooey Ace 1 in the Engler photograph. We know the date the bear was shot, because it is recorded on the top of the skull. Bella Twin used the rifle for many years on her trapline. Bella Twin was only a name for most of the time I knew of her. Anyhow, nice one, Dean. We ran into Grizzly tracks. But the bear kept coming closer and closer. It weighed in at … It’s a world record. then one after another from her single shot 22 she gave it finishing… Read more ». this bear weighed over 1400 pounds. A section is one mile square. I saw the bear in about 1970 and it was pretty ratty by then. Where is the skull today? At the time, it was reported that an airman hunting on Hitchcock Island killed the giant bear. Police say multiple people were killed in a shooting at a Colorado supermarket, including a police officer. 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. Knowing animal anatomy very well (she was an experienced trapper, and had skinned hundreds, perhaps thousands of animals) she knew exactly where to aim to penetrate the skull at its weakest point. Over the past few weeks, several well-meaning readers sent me an e-mail with a story and photos, supposedly of a new world record grizzly bear killed in Alaska. He wrote a fictionalized account of the bear shooting to include his grandmother in his prize winning children’s book, As Long as the Rivers Flow. There is corrosion on the receiver and barrel, the front screw that holds the stock to the barrel is missing and has been replaced with hockey tape. A black bear killed by Jeff Melillo in New Jersey during the 2019 hunting season has been certified as a bowhunting world record by the Pope and Young Club. KEY MEASUREMENTS: Greatest length of skull: 17 15/16. I’d say yours is the most true story. Bella Twin is shown with the hide from the world record grizzly bear Dean Weingarten. Follow Jack Brittingham as he takes his archery gear into the Alaskan tundra in pursuit of the most dangerous animal in North America, a giant brown bear! Slave Lake is in Alberta. Her story will be told around… Read more », Well, she was both brave enough and lucky enough to pull off a shot that was a charm. Wishing to avoid an encounter, they hid off the side of the cut. I will tell my grandchildren about you. But the Coastal, tidewater, bears are not considered to be the same as the inland Grizzly Bears or the North Slope barren ground Grizzly. There is a piece of rubber under the barrel – probably as a method of “free floating” the barrel. What is the largest grizzly bear ever shot? The stock is missing a part by the receiver and there is a wood screw reinforcing a crack in the stock.”. Keep pulling, all the time. It was probably only a few yards away. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (/ ˈ n iː tʃ ə, ˈ n iː tʃ i /; German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈniːtʃə] or [ˈniːtsʃə]; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, writer, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence … That amounts to a 21% increase in energy for the Long, but far short of the Long Rifle, which is almost double that of the .22 Short. A standard velocity .22 Long Rifle is listed at 1140 fps, with 120 foot pounds of energy, or 21% more than the High Velocity Long. Boulder police Cmdr. Some accounts say 30 feet. We’re reading about her, and not about others, because she’s the one who didn’t miss, didn’t hit the wrong place, and didn’t end up as bear dinner. With a skull that scores 29-15/16 points, Longoria’s trophy topped the former record, held by Tom Bolack, by more than an inch. OK, so… …a grizzly bear?.. The world record polar bear was the result of a hunt out of Kotzebue, Alaska in 1963. Really liked that story and how you researched it. SCORE: 30 12/16 LOCATION: Kodiak Island, Alaska HUNTER : Roy Lindsley OWNER: Los Angeles Co. Museum DATE: 1952. ©2017 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice is included. In 1953, Larry had been gone from Slave Lake for five years. I suspect his grandfather, Edward Twin, had died. With a skull measuring 27 and 6/16 inches, this is the biggest grizzly bear ever killed by a hunter in the Boone & Crockett record book. Great story Dean can you email me. According to the internet story, a forest-service worker was deer hunting when a huge bear charged him from 10 yards away. With a skull measuring 27 and 6/16 inches, this is the biggest grizzly bear ever killed by a hunter in the Boone & Crockett record book. May, 2012: Duane Dunham of Waupaca, Wisconsin, heads to Kodiak Island, Alaska, in search of a world record brown bear via muzzleloader. Online Records. The tiny 63-year-old Cree wo- man, who lived on Rabbit Hill overlooking Slave Lake, shot the biggest grizzly bear in North America. In 1986, another record-class grizzly was killed by Alvars Barkis of Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, with a .300 Magnum; and a medium-size one, about 500 pounds, was killed by 12-year-old Gary H. Holmes of Kimberly, BC, with a .25/06. what an amazing woman. I would have been about 8 years old. Almost exactly the geographic centre of the Province, North West of Edmonton on Lesser Slave Lake. I love it when we go to the range and the guys gather around to watch her “clean out the bullseye”. ..I guess that’d be about what.. …700-800 lbs. The black bear he took in the Keystone State this November will likely be the new Boone & Crockett record. 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. Claims were made that the bear had also been responsible for the … And before that, the world-record grizzly succumbed to a .22 Rimfire! She was being forgotten. How big was the bear it seems important to the story. In 2019, at least six fatal brown bear attacks were recorded in Romania, BBC News reported at the time, a stark increase over the 11 people killed there from 2000 to 2015. I live in fort mcmurray , Alberta . Born in the Canadian wilderness in 1890, your life stretched between worlds. Also – the rubber under the barrel of her rifle, mentioned by the curator in his email, likely functioned to keep the barrel from rattling around in the stock and making unwanted noise. For the record here is his Masonic involvement: Master of the Holland Lodge No.8, of N. Y. C.-1788 Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of New York-1796-1801 Junior Grand Warden on two occasions-1796 & 1801 Secretary of the comamandery (then called encampments). I wrote an article asking for help in 2014. I too hope her memory and deeds live long, and are told around many campfires. Women want to look their best in a photograph that will be shown to the world. Wyoming? The modern CCI standard velocity .22 Long Rifle travels at 1070 fps, with 102 foot pounds of energy, still 3% more than the High Velocity Long. I recall that into the 1960’s Longs were more expensive than shorts, but cheaper than Long Rifle ammunition. The world’s record Alaska brown bear (Ursos arctos middendorffi) scored 30 12/16 and was taken near Kodiak’s Karluk Lake in late May 1952. I would like to include this in a book I am writing. Some, like me, need to be more in the world. Engler writes: She was dressed very simply. She was a beloved grandmother who taught her grandchildren well and knew the Cree traditional folkways. Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. MR EBEAN HAD THE BEAR AS PART OF HIS MUSEUM COLLECTIONS. The story claimed a guy who worked for the forest service came across a huge grizzly bear that ended up charging him from 50 yards away. My father taught me the same lesson when I was 13. When Bruno told her that he wanted to take the picture, she insisted on going home and sprucing up, and changing into nicer clothes. I am not sure that I would have even taken the shot…….so shaken that would most likely have missed anyhow. Greatest width of skull: 12 13/16 The immense bear … Large calibers are used as insurance to bad shot placement. But if modern world citizens choose not to put faith in the professionals sacrificing themselves to bear witness, then their efforts will be for naught. We should relate to the world as our Savior did: to be in it, but distinct from it. At Tunes Hoboken, an independent record store running strong since 1995, the revival of vinyl records has been witnessed firsthand. The world-record black bear was reported killed in West Virginia but was actually shot out of season in north central Pennsylvania. The largest bear on record in modern times was a 2,200-pound ... like the modern-day black bear. Back in 1965, the world-record grizzly fell to one .30/30 bullet fired by Jack Turner. It proves what my grandfather an my military shooting instructors all said ” shot placement Trumps caliber” anyone ever wondering if a 22 is deadly needs to read that story. Which makes it a large grizzly but nothing like a brown bear where the minimum size for inclusion in the record books is 27″ and the record is over 30″ The gray, or timber, wolf (Canis lupus), which inhabits vast areas of the Northern Hemisphere, is the better known. Ammo Used to Kill 1953 World Record Grizzly. EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN! The carcass was displayed at the Seattle World's Fair in 1962. If you look at the bear skull there are at least 9 bullet holes in the bears left temple. Perhaps she saw it stop and start to sniff, as if it had caught their scent. the town of slave lake is on what they call lesser slave lake. For those curious about how to place that shot on a live bear, the place to aim is half way on a line from the center of the eye to the ear hole. I can’t bear witness if I don’t have contact with worldly people. Well, seems I’ve been having everything I’ve ever needed since Christmas 1967.. …when I got my trusty little Marlin 39A.. She shot at the side of the bears head. From the front, you would aim directly up the nose. It is “shot placement” that counts. IE 11 is not supported. It was huge. Back then I was into reading of early fur trappers and traders of the era. There is a wide variety of record titles to choose from and they can be attempted across a broad range of platforms. or so? The tidewater bears are BROWN BEARS for the purposes of measurement and records. He ended up emptying his gun on the bear, which dropped 10 yards from him. The right side has the location where the bear was shot written on it. i seen the news paper article way back then. As countless worldwide leaders and governments swiftly condemned the attack as an act of terrorism meant to destabilize the Kurdish region, America said, … Online record-breaking opens up a world of possibilities, allowing you to connect with audiences in multiple locations. In 2020, a survey found that around 42 percent of households in the U.S. reported owning one or more firearms.This makes the United States the most heavily armed civilian population in the world. … …I guess I’d better get busy… ….because I’ve got a whole lotta guns to sell. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Now we know that she was an expert trapper, hunter, and a crack shot. Eventually, Longoria got the shot he desired and walked up on a new world's record polar bear. Last night, my team got the second to last mount, and we had 8 minutes to spare, personal record. 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