The Vepr carbine semi-automatic rifle can shoot 600 rounds per minute (Picture: Getty)

Russian police are hunting a brown bear in Siberia who pinched two guns from a hapless hunter.

The bear trashed a wood cabin and left with a Vepr carbine automatic rifle, which shoots 600 rounds per minute, and an IZH shotgun as the hunter hid in the woods.

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The 57-year-old man had gone to a local river for water when the animal broke in.

An Irkutsk police statement said: ‘He was hunting miles away from the nearest village and decided to stay at a forest cabin.


‘He left his belongings in the cabin and went to get some water.

The Russian brown bear is one of Siberia’s deadliest predators, without guns (Picture: Barcroft)

The bear smashed the cabin up and left its paw prints on this bucket (Picture: Siberian Times)

‘On his return, he heard some suspicious sounds and spotted a bear.’



To avoid an encounter with the animal, the hunter scurried off into the woods where he hid for several hours.

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When he returned to the remote cabin, his bag and two guns were missing.

The Siberian Times reported the man hunted in the vicinity for several days seeking to find the guns, but the bear had made away with them.

Bear hunting season in Siberia runs until November 30 but the animals are beginning to hibernate, so the thieving bear could be fast asleep with the guns already.

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