Conan’s Fan Accidentally Hunted A Grizzly Bear | Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan

william you live in anchorage i would. think if you lived in anchorage. there'd be this pressure to be out there. with a. bowie knife hunting canoeing. uh putting tennis racquets on your feet. and traipsing through the snow. yeah are you that kind of guy put it see. this was the first time i snowshoed. i was so drastically disappointed. because my only exposure to that was. like winnie the pooh when i was a kid. and you actually stay on top of the snow. it sucks man. i'm not i'm not the outdoorsman at all. oh no well i mean it's okay to not like.

snowshoeing i tried it once and i. thought it's a total scam. it's just a good way to trip yeah it. just makes your feet. bigger uh and more clumsy and you're. still in the snow. uh that's someone's practical joke. that's lasted hundreds of years. oh having trouble getting through the. snow tie these oversized tennis rackets. to your feet. go ahead still having trouble t he keep. at it for a few hundred years. that's what i think snowshoeing is but. are you an outdoorsman. in other ways ah not really i mean i.

like playing. sports outdoors but not like the. outdoorsman like. do you know how to hunt game and then. hunt it down and then. field dress it and then smoke it over a. flame and then eat it. oh yeah i when when i did go hunting. with my father-in-law. the only moose i saw on that hunt was. when i was waking up from a nap it had. snuck up on me. and my gun was out of reach so there's. wait a minute you went hunting with your. father-in-law in anchorage alaska right.

you're out in the countryside in the. woods. and you go to sleep you see no game you. go to sleep. and when you wake up a moose is looking. at you and it's between you and your gun. it was well the gun was off to my left a. little bit the moose was about 15 feet. in front of me now tell the truth the. moose also had a gun right yeah. it was it was back for my lunch money. again. louis was like ah have a nice nap did. you yeah. don't even try for the gun there william. you won't make it. yeah um wow that's incredible so you did.

nothing you just stared at the moose and. then it walked away. i tried to reach for the gun and it just. moves are fast man. moose are fast are they really i don't. think they are i. i just think of them just i think that. moose took its time. leaving william and i think. i don't think you had it in you to shoot. a moose and i don't blame you. would you have shot the moose if you. could i don't think you would have i. i would have if i could have because. it's good food but i. i did on the hunt i wound up getting a. grizzly bear. what you got a grizzly yeah that skull.

wait a minute. right there i got a grizzly bear yeah. that's insanity. i first of all i've never uh grizzlies. are. are they're like a killing machine. grizzlies. yeah i'm fascinated by grizzly bears and. i happen to know that. they'll if they start charging you it. doesn't even matter if you have a. gun you're it's it's over i mean they're. practically bulletproof what did what do. you mean you got a grizzly. you had nine moose taunting you and you.

did nothing. and then you say oh but i got a grizzly. yeah um. i so like i said i'm not an outdoorsman. my father-in-law he's been hunting since. he was like seven years. father-in-law sounds like a bully he's a. manly man. um and is he nick offerman you can tell. us. he's like nick offerman with a little. less hair on his head. and his mustache wow i think nick. offerman is playing a prank on you. yeah maybe that'd be a pretty fun prank. but you know i'm i'm.

i'm it sounds to me i'm just getting the. cliche of you're this. very nice soft-spoken pleasant young man. who likes to probably stay inside and. uh work on his uh x-wing fighter model. and then. your father-in-law is like we're going. out to get the dreaded moose. and you're thinking i'd rather put on. your snow shoes. out we go is that what happens it i mean. that's not too far off i wouldn't have. gone if it weren't. kind of obligatory if i'm being honest.

it was a great experience though in. hindsight like one of the best. experiences of my life so wait a minute. so you've told us about. basically you know you you got moose to. the left of you moose to the right but. they're outwitting you at every turn. tell us how you bagged the grizzly i i. was i was up in a stand and we were just. kind of sitting there for. like three or four hours uh and. as we were sitting there we heard some. wrestling off to the right and and he's. like hey like there's a moose start. calling it in. and so we start raking and we just use. this button raking i don't know what. you're talking about.

you use a bucket lid and you just kind. of scrape a branch and it kind of sounds. like when a moose is. raking their antlers on a tree so we. start raking. and it starts raking back at us and then. she starts saying i'm a moose. yeah yeah exactly i'm a moosh you should. try it sometime. so bad at it i'm a moose that's what i'd. be doing yeah. oh i'm a moose so that that moose then. started coming downwind of us because. that's what they'll do. i found out this is all information that. i'm just regurgitating from him. they'll come down wind of you to see.

what you're all about and. get a whiff of you and right when he got. about parallel to us. maybe 30 40 yards into the forest we. heard what sounded like a like a. pit bull just growling right in our ears. but it was a it was a grizzly bear like. 150 yards away but it sounded like it. was just. right up on the ear and he looked at me. he's like do you want to shoot a moose. or. a bear and in my head i'm like i don't. see the moose yet. but i see the bear now and uh. i lined up my shot and luckily.

basically killed it instantly which you. can't really do on purpose. wow i think given the choice between you. said moose or grizzly. i'd have shot the father-in-law that. guy's. you know and first of all is it fun to. be up in a stand i just would feel like. lee harvey oswald. up there you know comes driving by in a. motorcade that's where's the. sportsmanship in that you want to be. down there on the ground. fighting it with your own bare hands. we've been we've been hiking out a lot. i'd gotten lost earlier that week even. though. there's relatively good paths and stuff.

like i said it's not my thing. i i was safe up there yeah i'm glad you. were up there i'm glad you're safe. um what do you do then with the grizzly. uh well there's a whole lot of stuff. that goes on. um they'll size it and if you want to. you can like enter it in to see if it. falls. in like certain size categories that. certain associations will like. give you awards for so i actually it. wound up being that this grizzly bear. was an inch and three quarters shy of. the world record. what yeah of the what do you mean of the. world record. world record you mean the world record.

for interior grizzly wait you said world. not it just in alaska but in. all of the world yeah so boone and. crockett is the association that is like. they measure the biggest fish and game. they get recorded. and there's kodiak grizzlies like the. coastal ones and then there's interior. grizzly. you're not an outdoorsman wow and you go. out on a hunt. and you're so not an outdoorsman that. you fall asleep and when you. and a moose has to wake you up and show. you where your gun is.

yeah like oh you you dropped this uh. there you go and you also dropped your. ammo yes moose no problem. that's how much of a of an outdoorsman. you are. then when you least expect it you shoot. at a grizzly. you miss but your miss shot kills it. instantly and then it turns out to be. slightly. slightly slightly less than the biggest. grizzly interior grizzly in the world. that is an accurate.

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