Offer him some Charmin.
well, if I was in a tree stand I would probably be hunting. At some point I’m afraid I’d have to use my weapon to protect myself..............hopefully it would still fire after being “soiled”.
Well, I imagine I’d have a cooler up there with me...
Bean him on the head with a few tall boys? I bet that would discourage him.
I would tell the bear that he is invading my safe space and if he does not retreat, I will file a grievance with my university president.
Great video! So cool. Thank you.
I wouldn’t have let him get that close. I would have made some noise as soon a he put a paw on the stand.
But made for good video, though. “OOps, my bad...wrong tree stand...”
I whish riters would learn to conjugate.
Firstly, I would have an instantaneous ‘laundry problem’.
Secondly, I hope I am armed well enough to take care of the situation. If the bear was intent on making me it’s next snack, it would then be an ‘ex-bear’, consequences be damned.
Well, if I was a liberal/leftist I would try and understand the bear, realizing that he was the victim of hunter privilege, and was entitled to recompense for his psychic damage.
Then I point out a red-neck conservative and say, “there is your enemy, go get him instead of me.”
Call Mr Ranger sir...Hey Hey Hey
Well, it’s likely I would have a bear tag and a deer tag, so....BLAM!
I usually carry a S&W 629 when I’m out and about in the woods. Great bear - or any other varmint - discourager.
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Having watched this, I’d calmly ask “Hey what are you doin’ there”. Otherwise I’d have soiled my raiments.
Hunter was calm as a darned cucumber, that guy. Lol. Hey...what are you doing there? HAHAHAHA!!!! Good stuff.
Bears have poor eyesite but a great sense of smell.
If a bear started climbing up a stand, then let the bear know you’re there.
Most of the time it will run away
Classic turn and look back from the bear @2:30. Bear would have flipped him the bird but didn’t know how to stick out individual claws.
I have had several encounters with bears on hikes in the Smokies.
perhaps the most notable was at an NPS shelter on the Appalachian trail. We put all our food in one pack and hung it up on the Front of the shelter roof. The bear came and was huffing about, unwilling to approach the open front of the shelter in which we were sleeping. So, rather than a frontal assault, the bear went around back and climbed on the roof over our heads. We banged on the roof and he left...... for a while. We thought the best course was to move the food away from the shelter and with a rope, suspended it in a tree.
The bear came back and took a swipe at the pack, tearing off one pocket and releasing a tin of crackers and a bottle of syrup (1956 before freeze dried stuff). He bit through the cracker tin and broke the syrup bottle.
many years later, I made the stupidest move ever. We were hiking up the Twenty mile trail to the Gresham’s bald and heard squealing. My friend and I went off trail to investigate and saw two cubs peering out of a hollow tree perhaps 15 feet off the ground. When they saw us they retreated back down in the tree. Well, that was going to be a fantastic photo so while my buddy focused on the tree top, i went over and beat on the trunk to encourage them to peek out. they never came out. Later that evening another in our party surmised we were fortunate to be there because had the mother come we would be toast
Drop your jar of HUNNY on his head.