Here is where the .405 Winchester would be minimum, but welcome!

Do they have real pictures? Those pictures are fake.

-Matt
 
Dont know, just whats in the article. Guess they could be shopped, you never know these days.
 
Hard to judge the size of this brown bear for a number of reasons. First is the lack of reference. This was most likely done by editing because the picture was taken at some distance and a cell phone was used. This would account for the pixilation and lack of definition...and the lighting looks like it's been altered by some editing software as well. I mean to say that there's a "Tik-Tok" symbol on the bottom right of the photo so probably not top shelf journalism or camera equipment.

I'm not saying this bear isn't a HUGE bear, but a little context or point of reference is needed to be able to put a number on what it really weighs.

Yes, the 405WIN would be an excellent choice for bear, although I'd opt for the extra 1000 lb-ft of energy afforded by using the 375H&H.
 
1000 pounds isn't really crazy for a big brown bear is it? There are 700 pound black bears around.
1000 pounds would be a very big bear, even a brownie, not crazy, but bigger than average. I have some pics of one taken in Cold Bay in 1948, with btw, a .405 Winchester that it was figured he might run 1300 pounds in his prime. Its huge!
 

post 14 of this thread is the Reeves bear, a monter.
 
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Credit to @observe for this write up and picture from 2013...

Alaska, Apr 24th 1948: World Record Brown Bear shot by Bob Reeves of Anchorage in Cold Bay, this giant bruin measured 10'4'' long and 6'2'' tall weighting in around 1800 lbs. Skull was 19'' 1/2 long and 11'' 1/2 wide, skin measured 11'4'' square after tanning. Robert Reeves, president of local business Reeves Aleutian Airlines, shot this bear with a Winchester Model 1895 in .405 Winchester loaded with 300 grain soft nose with two shots, from 260 yards and 2nd from 290 yards, finishing him off with a shoulder shot.

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