Posted on 11/11/2017 3:29:21 AM PST by marktwain
An off duty Wyoming Game Warden, Chris Queen, was hunting elk in the Little Sunlight Basin north of Cody, Wyoming, not far from the Wyoming border.
He was returning to his horses late in the day, about 6:30 in the evening. The sun had set 15 minutes earlier, but there was still considerable light. A grizzly sow bluff charged Chris, then charged him full out.
Queen told investigators he slowly backed away believing the sow would return to her cubs and move on.
But, after returning to her cubs, the sow exhibited even more aggressive behavior.
Suddenly, the animal lowered its head and fully charged.
Queen said he fired his rifle at the charging grizzly, killing it just a few feet from where he stood.
It is not unusual for an agency with concurrent jurisdiction, to be asked to assume investigative responsibility for an incident when a member of a law enforcement agency with primary jurisdiction is involved,” said Steward. “This maintains the integrity of the investigation and eliminates even the perception of impropriety,”
The off duty Game Warden, Chris Queen appears to be following the best available advise. Tom Smith, Professor at BYU, one of the most quoted proponents of bear spray, said as much in a Sports Afield article in 2012. He said that it would be foolish to drop a rifle to attempt to obtain pepper spray, while being charged.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Looks like the bear’s credit card has been revoked......
Modern day bear apologists tend to forget history that bears are dangerous to man.
If he would have only used bear spray, the bear would be alive and the warden would be either mauled or killed.
But the bear would be alive!
The message to tourists is that bear spray keeps the bears alive! But bear spray MIGHT BE 90% effective in stopping a bear attack. Might be.
Are there really people who think he should have dropped the rifle and tried to deploy pepper spray???? Such crazy humans....
Are there really people who think he should have dropped the rifle and tried to deploy pepper spray???? Such crazy humans....
It makes sense from their perspective: Bears are rare and valuable.
Humans are common and expendable.
http://mountainjournal.org/when-a-game-warden-shoots-a-grizzly
How horrid! An unarmed bear of color needlessly gunned down by a racist law enforcement officer. < / sarcasm >
So. what happens to the orphaned. Cubs?
“Are there really people who think he should have dropped the rifle and tried to deploy pepper spray?”
...sure. Hypocrite Liberals. All others should lay down their arms or not have them at all. Liberal attacked? Fire at will and until gun is empty.
Tom Smith, Professor at BYU, one of the most quoted proponents of bear spray, said as much in a Sports Afield article in 2012. He said that it would be foolish to drop a rifle to attempt to obtain pepper spray, while being charged
No criticism of Professor Smith, but one would think this is so obvious as to not need saying.
Of course the sprayed bear needs some distance to halt its charge and might accidentally skid to a stop on top of the sprayer ... at which point nature will kick in, spray or no.
On one of the defense to bear attack stories I wrote, I included a link to the video/audio of Treadwell and his girlfriend, Annie Huguenard being killed and eaten alive by a grizzly. Not for the squeamish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9lCkFygaaQ
“Jackson Hole attorney Deidre Bainbridge, a wildlife advocate, calls the incident “very disturbing—
So would bear spray have worked? “We don’t know but I don’t give the warden the benefit of the doubt,” she said. “He should know how to behave in bear country to protect the bear, especially one with three cubs.”
These environmentalists are truly dangerous lunatics.
No criticism of Professor Smith, but one would think this is so obvious as to not need saying.
There are multitudes of people, many of them hunters, who will say that bear spray is so much better at stopping bears, that bear spray should have been used.
It is all based on fake science.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2014/10/wybear-spray-v-bullets-flaws-in-studies.html
I don’t think bear spray would have worked against the bear in the following link.
http://forums.bowsite.com/tf/regional/thread.cfm?threadid=235768&messages=13&state=ct
Yeah, for sure.
That was awful. Stupidity. Sheer stupidity. And he (and she) paid in full.
Bears are cuddly and look like big doggies. People just want to hug them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKDu1qHLv4E
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