Grizzly Bear Hunting

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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

An illustration of a charging bear
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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

A bear snarls in an illstration.
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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

A bear swipes at a hunter and his hounds
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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

Human hands stretch out a giant bear paw.
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I Fought Off a Brown Bear with My Fishing Rod, and Other Close Calls While Living in Remote Alaska

By Scott Haugen

You Go I Stay feature story from Outdoor Life
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Fred Bear in Alaska: Bowhunting a World-Record Brown Bear

By Fred Bear, as told to Ben East

An illustration of an Outdoor Life story about a killer grizzly.
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My Months-Long Hunt for a Cattle-Killing Grizzly, from the Archives

By Jack Tooker

A grizzly bear in a meadow.
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Alberta Brings Back Grizzly Hunting, But Only for ‘Problem’ Bears

By Dac Collins

A grizzly bear eats an elk.
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Watch: Grizzly Bear Eats a Cow Elk That’s Still Alive

By Katie Hill

hunter poses in woods with grizzly bear and longbow and arrows
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Killing a Grizzly the Old-Fashioned Way: With a Longbow and a Stone-Point Arrowhead

By Tyler Freel

old magazine illustration of hunter directing hounds in desert environment
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Ben Lilly and the Desert Grizzly, From the Archives

By Frank C. Hibben

Grizzly paw and 6.5 Creedmoor cartridges
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Grizzly Hunting with a 6.5 Creedmoor

By Tyler Freel

Ideal shot placement for where to shoot a bear is a slightly quartering-away bear like this one.
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Where to Shoot a Bear, and How to Recover It

By Tyler Freel

big black bear with .30/06
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The Best Bear Cartridges

By Tyler Freel

grizzly with ear tags in meadow
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Where Do All the Problem Bears Go?

By Christine Peterson

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Are Grizzlies and Polar Bears Hybridizing in Alaska?

By Bjorn Dihle