Two killed in Alaska bear attack

KTVB ^ | 10/07/03 | Staff Writer

[OldCorps]

what a hoot! great video.

[harpseal]

This year my shooting has been limited due to circumstances somewhat beyond my control but I am deasling with them and maybe next year I will be able to go. Meeting all in Alaska for that hunting and fishing sounds really great.

[harpseal]

This sounds like a fantastic trip I hope I am able to make it next year. Right now the issue is not money there are other things limiting me for the moment.... If i am able to I will go.

[MissAmericanPie]

Did ya hear the latest? Fox News reported the male victim was a "bear expert", from Malibu. He now has a first class education on the digestive track of a bear.

[bedolido]

So True!!!

Hiker becomes Yogi's Picinick-basket

[Travis McGee]

When is the weather nice in Alaska?

[wardaddy]

Me too ...treading water swimming in the middle of the ocean and little things bump your legs....."shiver me timbers"

[Travis McGee]

That picture looks like fun! But remember, this is 2003, so NO smoking, NO drinking, NO campfire, and NO off-color jokes.

Other than that, we'll have a rip-roaring good time!

(Would the guys in that picture recognize America today??)

[wardaddy]

Grizz on coke would be like most folks probably....everybody yapping and nobody listening.

[wardaddy]

yep....and manhood well earned.

[RightWhale]

A knife against a bear is at least potentially winnable. Daniel Boone did it, although it was a black bear, something that one could wrestle. To get behind the bear and hang on while trying to get the point into a neck artery would be the plan. A spear might work, too, since that is confusing to animals.

[Travis McGee]

Do you know what plastic spaghetti forks or tongs look like? Sharp little fingers or teeth at the end for grabbing pasta out of the pot? One of my favorite snorkeling pranks is to sneak up behind a buddy and grab their leg between a pair of them. Always great for a laugh....later.

[wardaddy]

that movie had Anthony Hopkins and Puke Baldwin....Baldwin in collusion with Hopkins young wife tries to kill him but old Anthony is too wise.

The bear scenes are great....that is a big Brown.

[Travis McGee]

I think the idea with a spear against large dangerous game is to plant the butt end in the earth, and let the charging animals momentum impale him.

I guess you gotta be a pretty cool customer to pull it off, since you'll only get one chance to make it good, and if Mr. Griz or Simba swats it aside, you're lunch.

[Travis McGee]

That's the one. I can't stand Baldwin, but it's still a great flick. Almost an "Alaskan survival training film." You can learn by their mistakes, and gain by some of their ideas.

[wardaddy]

I always recall the old Wide World of Sports where Burt Reynolds shoots a Grizz in BC with a Weatherby 300 mag. and it turns and charges him and Burt and the camera crew haul ass and the guide drops the bear at about 15-20 yards with a 10 bore stopper gun. It was priceless.

[D Rider]

Sort of, both Grizzlies and Kodiaks are brown bears. Most Grizzlies top out around 900lbs. Kodiaks around 1600lbs. You can think of Kodiaks as a super-sized Grizzly.

[Shooter 2.5]

Heck, I could have croaked twice in the last two years and a couple more times before that. I don't think I'll ever get too old to tote a rifle because I can't think that far in advance.

I would like to plan on some sort of gathering. I have't even met Squantos or TexasCowboy yet.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Count me in!