Grizzly Bear Hunting

The best grizzly bear hunting adventures and stories, straight from the backcountry.

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Ben Lilly faces off with a bear
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Mountain Man Ben Lilly’s Infamous Showdown with a Mexican Grizzly

By Frank C. Hibben

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I Shot a Monster Interior Grizzly Bear With My Recurve Bow

By Tyler Freel

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I Dreamt a Brown Bear Was in My Tent. Then One Actually Walked into Camp

By John B. Snow

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I Guided Teddy Roosevelt and Zane Grey, But This Grizzly Hunt Was One I’ll Never Forget

By Jack Tooker

An illustration of a grizzly bear tumbling down a mountain as hunters get out of the way.
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A Grizzly Stole My Son’s First Deer. So We Tracked the Bear Down

By William J. McRae

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I Thought Alaska Had Beaten Me. Then, Finally, I Saw the Biggest Brown Bear of My Life

By Kenneth C. Kellar

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Do Bears Hold Grudges? The Legendary Tale of a Wounded Alaskan Grizzly

By Jim Rearden

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I’ve Killed Dozens of Bears. Here’s What Actually Makes a Great Bear Gun

By Tyler Freel

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I Was 20 Yards Away from a Big Boar Grizzly When My Rifle Misfired — and Blinded Me

By Frank Glaser, as told to Jim Rearden

A vintage photo collage of Fred Bear with a goat and a grizzly.
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Watch: Footage of Fred Bear Hunting His First Grizzly, with the Legendary Razorhead Broadhead

By Fred Bear, as told to Ben East

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We Stalked a Cannibal Brown Bear That Was Trying to Kill a Cub

By Leon Francisco

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We Tracked Down a Killer Grizzly — and It Almost Ended in Tragedy

By Gordon D. Gosling

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After 25 Years of Big Game Hunting, All I Wanted Was to Tag an Elk

Illustrated and written by Bob Kuhn

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My Wife Wanted to Hunt Grizzlies, and No One Could Talk Her Out of It

By Ralph Hammer

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Bear Hunting with My 7-Year-Old Daughter Has Taught Us Both Some Important Lessons

By Tyler Freel

A vintage black and white photo of a man darting a bear from a helicopter.
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16 Incredible Vintage Hunting and Fishing Photos from an Alaska Wildlife Refuge

By Natalie Krebs

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I Stalked America’s Most Dangerous Game in the Riskiest Place Possible

By Frank C. Hibben

An old cowboy ropes a California grizzly bear
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When Grizzlies Ruled California

By George Laycock

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A Grizzly Killed Two Bears, Then Charged Me Next. He Should Have Been a World-Record

By Ace Demers, as told to Tom Stacer

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My Buddy and Our Hounds Were No Match for the Ghost-Town Grizzly of Old New Mexico

By Frank C. Hibben