Grizzly bears are on the top of many hunters’ bucket lists. And for good reason: Their sheer size, along with the reputation they hold, keeps many hunters dreaming of taking one.

On his fifth grizzly hunt, Rod Debias was able to arrow one. But this was not just any old grizzly. He nabbed the largest grizz ever killed.

Unfortunately for Debias, the massive bear almost didn’t get approved as the new world record. Find out what the problem was, in this Field & Stream report.

Two days after their first bear sighting, they were watching a pair of sows feeding on the tundra 700 yards away when a big boar came over the horizon. Stiles estimated the sows at 7 to 7 ½ feet tall, but they seemed small next to the boar. “They were two Hondas and he was a Mack truck,” Debias says. “This thing dwarfed them.” … [continued]

Photo: Steven Hill