‘The Boone and Crockett Club’ recently announced that a grizzly bear which was bagged last year by a hunter in Alaska has landed a record for the ‘largest grizzly ever taken by a hunter.’
Grizzly bears are fierce animals and any hunter that bags one earns some serious bragging rights.
'The Boone and Crockett Club’ recently announced that a grizzly bear which was bagged last year by a hunter named Larry Fitzgerald, has landed a record for the ‘largest grizzly ever taken by a hunter, and the second largest grizzly skull in the world.’
Grizzlies are classified as ‘North American subspecies of the brown bear’. They can stand up to 5 feet 8 inches tall and weigh up to 800 pounds.
According to ‘The Boone and Crockett Club’, the skull of Fitzgerald’s bear measured 27 6/16 inches which is just under half an inch smaller than the skull of the current record holding grizzly that was bagged in Alaska in the mid 1970s.
A spokesperson for the club, Richard Hale commented “One would think that a relatively accessible area, with liberal bear hunting regulations to keep populations in line with available habitat and food, would be the last place to find one of the largest grizzly bears on record.”
