Photos of Bella Twins Cooey Ace 1 currently at the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton Alberta that she used to kill that record setting Grizzly Bear in 1953. Ill bet a crisp fifty-dollar bill that they were .22-shorts. Before I read this story, I looked at the rifle with a magnifying glass, & thought, That looks like the 1st firearm I ever owned, a Stevens single shot rifle. It was given to me for Christmas when I was 14 y/o, in 1947. They didnt believe that a tiny Cree lady could kill a giant grizzly with a single bullet from a .22, held together with chicken wire, Larry recalled. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". I knew he was huge, but I didnt realize how huge. Larry wrote: Without warning, a giant grizzly reared up before them on the trail. Bella Twin, an Indian girl, and her friend Dave Auger were hunting grouse near Lesser Slave Lake in northern Alberta. YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. It probably never occurred to her that the performance of the round is considered an almost ridiculous mismatch against her oppressor. A short time before, hed shot a giant grizzly, and sent his bears skull measurements to The Boone and Crockett Club, to be scored against other North American big game. Bella made sure. We heard his last breaths as he expired, and I sat there in awe, still pumped full of adrenalineastonished but grinning from ear to ear. I also didnt realize how luck I was to be able to get an arrow in him. Fern Spaulding Rivers did shoot a trophy Brown Bear but it was not a world record. She paid the insurance. Dont assume a large animal is dead. He asked Dave Auger to go into the bush and bring back the skull, says son Roland. We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. The Stevens and Springfields looked alike , assume the Y was for youth , as it was shorter than my own first .22 . A .22 rifle can be an important part of any prepper/survival gear. He waited until the bull grazed to within 75 yards or less and dropped the 1 ton bull with one well placed shot to the brain. Even after flying 400 yards (370 m), a .22 bullet is still traveling about 500 feet/second.. And that's what Larry's words were like, hell, no question about it. I recall buying longs in the middle 1960s from a gas station. The hide was displayed for many years in the Slave Lake beer hall, nailed to the wall. He was truly a creature of dreams. A recent one ended with both man and bear dead. They spend the hunting seasons along alder-, willow-, and brush-choked riversmosquito-infested waters with rarely more than 30 or 40 yards of visibility. If she saw the bear on the cutline coming towards them, they wouldn't wait. A trapper neither needed nor wanted the extra velocity of the Long Rife rimfire rounds for two reasons: undamaged pelts bring a premium dollar, and .22 Long Rife rounds were more expensivejust speculating here. Lucky for her, her tactics worked. The bear's skull measured 27 6/16, making it the largest grizzly taken by a hunter ever recorded. This is just a bear. In the top picture by Engler, the rifle is missing the bolt. Bella Twin thought it was less risk to shoot rather than not shoot. Bella knew animal anatomy very well. There has been a lot of speculation over the intervening years about what exactly happened that day there on the trapline. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. And I had a large boar walk to within 3 feet of my rifle muzzle. The 1953 High Velocity Long generated 99 foot pounds. Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet. We just stood there staring at him. had a single shot .22 and a box of shorts. While the bear was busy eating the bait the hunter would rise up and place a 22 against its head and the rest was history. i wonder where that 22 is now, certainly the collectors value would be much higher knowing its history with a grizz. A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. And they tracked it down, you know, where they saw the bear and they went after it. I live in Lesser Slave Lake and this is a story that can be confirmed by many townspeople that have lived here since before 1950. Reinhold Eben EbenauRolands fatheracquired the skull and this remains a part of the Eben-Ebenau family museum on the Northshore Homestead Ranch (www.northshorehomestead.com) in Northern Alberta where Roland still raises bison. More penetration than some common pistol rounds. Bella Twin killed that World Record Grizzly Bear in 1953 using 22 Long (not Long Rifle) cartridges. He enjoys sharing common sense tips for anyone to survive an urban or wilderness emergency, or natural disaster. Longs cost less than Long Rifle cartridges. doubleclick.net - browser supports cookies. It did not qualify for Pope and Young because Debias used a Lumenok on his arrow. This bears skull was 16 9/16 long and 9 14/16 wide, for a total score of 26 7/16. The giant bear weighed 966 kg (2,130 lb) when he died in June 1987 at the age of 22. The big bruin, taken in 2013 near Fairbanks, Alaska, by Larry Fitzgerald of Fairbanks. I havent found any record of weight measurement or a measure of the hide. I have. Future records should include sex, date killed, location taken, hunter name, and observer names for the scale weight. Every time the Buffalo went by, he put a 22 into it. The bear was brought down with a single shot but she took a a few more shots for insurance. Amazing. The long would have fired a 29 grain bullet at 1240 feet per second. and a record to go with it. That grizzly managed to singlehandely steal an Elk carcass from an entire wolf pack. This lady did the only thing that could be done with the bear in such extremely close proximity . Reinhold Eben-Ebenau had a reason. I own cooey ace1 my self ans let me tell you that is an accurate 22 caliber for its size. posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its . And on butchering day, the tool used to euthanize a hog or steer was a .22 rifle. Several times I have had to put down large hogs in the 300-400 pound range that were injured. WOW! When you live and spend a lot of time hunting in Alaska, your odds of eventually having an encounter with a grizzly drift more toward the guaranteed end of the spectrum. The Safari Club International Record Book Contending with flood-stage water and spending hours snaking through huge log jams, I found that moving downstream was sketchy at best, but even with a late start, I managed to get my bait in and working. A very neat skull to have, It has been a conversation piece for years! Any opportunity to bring out the facts as Larry saw them is important because there were a lot of myths about how the incidents happened. They would not have gone and challenged the biggest grizzly in North America. 274 7/8. Its not that we dont feel the excitement in the moment, sometimes we just dont realize what we have within the moment. A possible fatality supposedly occurred in 1907 when a man was attacked by a female grizzly bear after he prodded her cub with an umbrella. MOUNTAIN LION. Females are about 20% smaller, and 30% lighter than males. By Dean Weingarten Bella Twin is shown with the hide from the world record grizzly bear Arizona - ( Ammoland.com )- On 10 May, 1953, Bella Twin was hunting small game with her partner,. Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. The bear dropped, kicked and then lay still. I was ecstatic to get my first big game animala bull moose with 60-inch-wide antlersbut I didnt truly appreciate how nice of a bull he was. The guy was in the tree all night. If all I had was a .22 up against a griz, Id need a box of shorts too Well, any thoughts a home invader might have of getting away from her house safely are pretty much slim and none.. Disclaimer: It scored 27 13/16. I wonder if she had to change shorts?????????? And after they quarter you, they go all Pulp Fiction medieval on your ass. When I interviewed Brissenden she said to me, Look, she was a Cree and a top-notch hunter. From "Biggest Bears Of 2006" in the March/April 2007 issue of Bear Hunting Magazine, due on newsstands late . What actually happened is that in October 2001 a 22-year-old airman from Eielson Air Force Base named Ted Winnen killed a grizzly bear on Hinchinbrook Island. Ive neverRead more , I doubt that a 22 rimfire shot will kill if the bullet strike the skull BUT A SHOT INTO THE BRAIN will kill. The bruin squared more than 10 feet, weighed more than 1,000 pounds, and had a 28-inch skull. Safe traveling in bear country begins before you get on the trail. But thats what happened on May 10, 1953. A 700-pound black bear killed by bow on private land in Morris County, N.J., last year has set a world record for North American black bear, besting a mark set in 1993, according to the Pope and Young Club, a national bowhunting organization. Parks Canada said the recent forensic necropsy of a female grizzly bear suggests she was killed by a goat, after the horns pierced the bear's armpits and neck. A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. The bear dropped dead, but because Twin knew what she was up againstput seven more rounds into the bear skullseven insurance shots. It appears to be an inexpensive boys type .22 bolt action single shot. Several times I have had to put down large hogs in the 300-400 pound range that were injured. Well I was expecting The Bella Twins from WWE , theyre hawt ! Yep, thousands of people killed with 22 rimfire. Bella Twin, a Cree Indian, and her partner, Dave Auger, were hunting small game south of Slave Lake, in Alberta, Canada. You can see the measurements written on the skull. Bear killed the brown with a recurve and cedar arrows tipped with his signature broadheads. This closeup shows the penciled score. YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. His dad paid $15 for it. He ended up emptying his gun on the bear, which dropped 10 yards from him. One charged him and he turned around to get his rifle from his trusty gun bearer only to find that the gun bearer was gone. Bears have very thick skulls. This one is priceless, because of its provenance. Americas oldest Second Amendment News outlet. His Dad killed a few big bears in the slave lake area and well may have had his eye on this bear for himself or one of his clients. I was told the Eskimos and native Indians use the single shot 22lr riffle to kill the big bears like this because of a natural trait the bears have of standing on their hind legs when they attack, growling and opening their mouths. It was all a blur, but I watched my arrow bury itself up to the vanes behind his shoulder, pushing the Grizzly single-bevel broadhead out in front of the opposite shoulder. Bella Twin had her beat up .22 single shot Cooey Ace 1 with her. Every big game animal in the United States has been killed with a .22. Research may disclose.at one time anyway, the World Record grizzly was killed with a 30-30;the story showing up in Outdoor Life in the good old daysand the World Record Polar Bear, with a 270 Winchester. Shortly after 1 a.m., all was quiet, and we were straining our ears to hear the slightest noise. Grizzy killed with HI Point 45 ACP. That bear, killed in 1953, was the world-record grizzly for several years and is still high in the records today. The bear died, but it took some time to do so, as told by game warden Louis Kis. The bear charged the worker, who shot it with the .22 revolver. I wore clothing from Sitka Gear and carried a Stone . Subscribe to OL+ for our best feature stories and photography. She was born in 1890. I believe the rifle to be a cooey ace and for the doubters I use 22lr at the slaughter house each week to dispatch evrything from lamb to old 2500 lb beef bulls all one shot. Animals will often stop and sniff to try to identify a scent. You know how stories get told, and then somebody hears that story, and they tell it again, and it moves a little bit, told again and moves some more.. That bear was done in by what used to be known in some circles as a golden BB.. They wont just kill you. The place to aim was between the eyes, about an inch up. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. Quantserve sets the mc cookie to anonymously track user behaviour on the website. 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The largest Kodiak Bear ever recorded: Anchorage Airport Brown Bear Voss got off two shots with his .270 that proved fatal to the bear, but the grizzly bit Voss about the head - they usually go for the head - and killed him.