qmdv forwarded these photos to me and asked me to post them. I've seen them on sc.org, but I don't recall the story behind them. Somebody chime in here. The photos aren't for the faint of heart.

http://www.backcountrypilot.org/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=196

Edit: For correct link per jmtgt

jmtgt wrote:Zane link does not work.

Try http://www.backcountrypilot.org/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=196

Zane:

I saw those pics previously, attached to an email I was sent. As I recall, the story in the email said he was on a hunting trip and the bear attacked him in the camp, he survived and the bear was tracked down and killed not long after it happened. No way to verify the story though.

Joe in MT.

Yuchky poo!!!

That's real typical damage from a small brownie or Grizz. If it had been a bigger bear and had been able to get it's mouth around the mans skull it would have killed him for sure. When they don't have big enough jaws they just scrape and gouge like that and tear the scalp off.

Very odd color too, don't hardly ever see one that white.

We had FIVE brownies on the river last night when I was coming out with a busload of tourists. Makes for happy people even when the weather is poor.

Cotton-pickin' polar bears wrecked my Maule one year. Opened it up just like a Larson cartoon. Must have been the cheezie crumbs we left in the carpet. Tied it down and hoped for the best. Went in the next year and stitched and patched it up and flew it out. After the second polar bear ran across the airstrip 50 metres ahead of us while we were working on it, I decided to lock and load the .30/06. Still keep the polar bear teeth marks in the starboard wing leading edge as a momento. Won't paint over them. Looks like it was probably about a nine-foot yearling. Not too big. Just testing to see if aluminium is OK to eat.

It's a polar bear, not a brown bear.

MTV

OK i'll take your word for that, it don't look like a polar bear head or neck shape though.