Posted on 08/15/2022 8:42:46 PM PDT by george76
A bear entered a home in Steamboat at 2 a.m. Saturday. Kelly Mauldin heard her dogs barking and got up to investigate and discovered the 300-400 male bear in her house. She screamed for her husband, Ken, who got up and shot and killed the bear.
When I went to my bedroom door, I saw the bear about 10 feet away and shot it instantly with a 40-caliber, semi-automatic handgun. Then the bear charged me. I continued shooting at it as fast as I could. The bullet hole in the floor suggested the bear got about five to six feet from me when he backed up, changed directions, and crashed through the bannister railing onto the stairs, where he collapsed at the bottom of the stairs.”
Rachael Gonzales with Colorado Parks and Wildlife says “given the facts of this incident, the homeowner was within his legal rights.” She wants to remind everyone that all ground level windows and doors should always be locked.
This is a great reminder to lock your front doors, back doors, close the garage doors if you’re not inside your garage doing stuff actively. But especially those ground level windows and front doors, making sure they are closed and locked all day long and overnight. It’s easy access for bears to get into so we want to eliminate that easy access
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It was a lever handle that the bear used to get into an unlocked door at the house. Mauldin says the bear had been a frequent visitor to houses in the neighborhood, which was near CMC in the Hill Streets area.
That, too!
LOL!
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I’m guessing they meant Steamboat Springs, CO.
As rare as taking a Grizzly with a .22 may be it has happened more than once.
Gal I heard about was hanging her laundry and it was much more recent.
Guy who told me about it was a native alaskan working for the state and personally wrote up the report.
Nobody wrote a book so it was just another close call.
This is a great reminder that bears are not being shot often enough in Colorado neighborhoods.
Steamboat Springs, CO
My grandkids LOVE that story!! And the pictures - close up of a bear’s mouth, open. I have read it to them about 400 times. The illustrations are very good too.
My friend against the foothills in Los Angeles saw a bear in her backyard. He was eating the honey that the bees had hidden under a tarp in the wheelbarrow. Front yard is large and tree-y; backyard is narrow with a wash behind it. She opened the door (!!) to see what the noise was and came face to face with him. Closed the door fast and called the bee folks in the morning!
True - the left are on the side of the predators.
I’m wondering how locking your windows is going to stop a bear from coming into your house if he wishes to do so.
Yes. A few have told me. Thank you. I never heard of a town named Steamboat and thought only of a steamboat. Made no sense to me and was wondering how in heck did a bear get in his steamboat?
The left wants us to hide in fear
The name of Steamboat Springs originated around the early 1800s when French trappers thought they heard the chugging sound of a steamboat’s steam engine. The sound turned out to be a natural mineral spring, to be named the Steamboat Spring... now a western cowboy - ski town .
I'm fine with that but I'm dead set set against arming bears. Nothing in the constitution about that.
If bears are outlawed then only outlaws will have bears, armed, right, to.
I think 🤔.
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Bella Twin and her
Record setting Grizzlie.
I can’t imagine being that close to a 1000 lb. 10 ft. Tall Bear with a .22 single shot Cooey Ace 1.
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How right you are. I do believed I would have bailed out. Maybe not a good decision but I wouldn’t want that beast so close to me.
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