Posted on 06/18/2007 8:29:23 AM PDT by george76
An 11-year-old boy is killed by a black bear overnight at a popular campsite in American Fork Canyon. This morning authorities are searching for the bear.
The boy was asleep inside a tent he was sharing with his family at the Timpooneke Camp area, about 10 miles up the canyon. The family was camping about two miles up a dirt road from that campground.
The boy, his mother, stepfather and a 6-year-old brother were sleeping in a large tent with several sections, and the 11-year-old was in a section of the tent by himself.
Around 11 p.m. family members heard a scream and a loud commotion. They found the tent ripped open, and the boy and his sleeping bag gone.
Harris said the body was found about 400 yards from the tent in the direction of another campsite, where a bear sighting had been reported earlier in the weekend.
Crews are using dogs to search for the bear this morning.
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I read a story once about a guide who hunted boars with a rat terrier. The little pip-squeak would tear off after the hogs and chase one until he'd cornered it. The guide said that he often came up to find a very confused pig trying to figure out what the noisy, little thing was.
Very sad. Prayers to the family.
Thanks for the ping.
I wonder if he had an food in his tent that attracted the bear to the tent.
A Canadian wolf relocated to Yellowstone was killed on Interstate 70 west of Denver.
It still had its collar on.
Every since the illegals and the newbie liberals voted away our spring bear hunting season, the only safe place for tent camping is on a Reservation.
This is part of the liberal plan : to kick us out off our public lands.
Name not yet released, 11, male June 17, 2007 Black Taken from tent while Stepfather, Mother and 6 year old brother sleeping in other section of large tent in American Fork Canyon in Utah County, Utah.[1]
Elora Petrasek, 6, female April 13, 2006 Black She was killed and her mother and 2 year-old brother seriously injured in an attack in the Cherokee National Forest in Tennessee.[2]
Arthur Louie, 60, male September 20, 2005 Brown Killed by a female and two cubs while he was walking back to his mining camp after his truck had a flat tire at Bowron River, British Columbia.[3]
Jacqueline Perry, 30, female September 6, 2005 Black Killed in a predatory attack at the Missinaibi Lake Provincial Park, north of Chapleau, Ontario, Canada. Her husband was seriously injured trying to protect her. Ministry staff shot and killed the bear at approximately 8:00 a.m. Saturday, September 10, 2005, near the area where the fatal attack occurred in a remote area of the park. [4][5] The bear involved had already attempted to attack two fisherman an hour before this attack occurred 69, male August 26, 2005 Black Fatally mauled while picking plums at Selkirk, north of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Rich Huffman, 61, male; Kathy Huffman, 58, female June 23, 2005 Brown Killed in their tent at a campsite along the Hulahula river 12 miles upriver from Kaktovik in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Isabelle Dube, 35, female June 5, 2005 Brown Killed while jogging with 2 friends on the Bench Trail in Canmore, Alberta
Merlyn Carter, 71, male 2005 Black Found dead in the main cabin of his fishing camp located 300 km Northeast of Ft. Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Timothy Treadwell, 46, male ; Amie Huguenard, 37, female October 2003 Brown Found by their pilot, dead and partially consumed at Katmai National Park, Alaska on October 6, 2003. Treadwell was world-famous for his books and documentaries on living with wild bears in Alaska. State Troopers investigating the incident recovered an audiotape of the attack.[6]
Forestry worker April 17, 2003 Black Stalked, killed and partially consumed by a large, black bear near Waswanipi, a village in northern Quebec.
male citizen of Alberta, Canada September 2002 Black Attacked and killed at a remote oil rigging site in northeastern British Columbia.
male hunter September 2002 Black Attacked and killed in his campsite in Gaspé region of Quebec.
Ester Schwimmer, 5 months, female August 2002 Black Bear grabs and kills 5 month old infant from stroller on the porch of home in Fallsburg, New York
Adelia Maestras Trujillo, 93, female August 2001 Black Bear breaks into a house in and is confronted by the elderly owner who dies during the attack.
Kyle Harry, 18, male June 3, 2001 Black Attacked and killed at a rural campsite 25 km. east of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
George Tullos, 41, male July 14, 2000 Brown His partially consumed body was found at Run Amuk campground in Hyder, Alaska.
Mary-Beth Miller, 24, female July 2000 Black Attacked and killed while on a training run in Quebec, Canada. Glena Ann Bradley, female May 2000 Black Killed and partially consumed by a 112 pound female and her 40 pound yearling. The attack occurred near the Goshen Prong/Little River trail junction 1.5 miles upstream from Elkmont, Great Smoky Mountains near Gatlinburg, Tennessee
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Many of the DOW, USFS, BLM, NPS offices are full of young naive, eco-nuts.
The like to blame humans for every and all problems.
They hope to close all the historical roads and stop us from hiking / camping / hunting / fishing....
I concur wholeheartedly...
Here in the south we use the S-S-S methodology....
Shoot...
Shovel...
Shutup...
The 100-pound elderly woman didn’t have a chance against a 275-pound bear in the kitchen of her home, wildlife officials point to bears desperate for food as the continuing cause of people-bear incidents
A 93-year-old New Mexico woman was mauled to death by a black bear that broke into her home over the weekend, stunned wildlife officials have confirmed. Adelia Maestas Trujillo of Cleveland, in north-central New Mexico, was killed “by multiple bite injuries,”
I'm afraid that I'm not much of an authority on guns. I bought my .44 over 20 years ago, and have fired thousands of rounds from it, but It's the only pistol I've ever owned.
My sister bought a .357 revolver and was very happy with it. Lots of punch, and it can shoot .38's for plinking, which saves some money.
A general rule of thumb is that for large game you don't want a hollow point type of pistol cartridge. You want something that will smash through big bones.
The one thing that I do feel that I can comment on with some authority is that I prefer having a large caliper SINGLE ACTION REVOLVER for hiking/camping. With the single action you must cock the hammer back yourself... you can't just pull the trigger. When I'm sleeping with a gun under my pillow I do feel a little safer that way.
If you get a Ruger Super Blackhawk make sure it's a "New Model" version. With the original Super Blackhawk many people only loaded 5 shells at a time so that the hammer wasn't sitting on a live shell, which raised the possibility of accidentally firing the gun if the hammer was hit. In the New Model version the hammer can't actually reach the firing pin. It uses a "transfer bar" that only engages when the trigger is fully depressed. The trigger raises the transfer bar, the hammer strikes the transfer bar and the transfer bar strikes the firing pin. It's a very safe gun to cuddle with at night in a tent in the wilderness.
It's not much of a quick draw gun, and not a rapid fire automatic, but if you put a slug into a bear it'll probably do the job.
BTW, there are larger caliper magnum pistols out there than a .44. There's a .454 Casul (sp?), and I think a couple of .50 cal something or other, all of which will do as good or better than a .44 against a bear. But they're going to cost more for the gun, and more for the ammo. I'm very happy with my .44 because I can share the ammo with my friend who has an old lever action ranch rifle in a .44 mag.
The bison are so tame that they are likely easy marks for wolves and bears. I see bison skeletons and fur all over the grounds around Old Faithful and Black San Basin. I've seen a grizzly wandering through the area on our April 20th visit this year.
Here is it paw.
My parish priest who is an avid hunter and naturalist was at one of the National Parks when two people were killed by a grizzly. The ranger asked him to come along with him, to help recover the bodies. From what they could make out the people had tried to take a photo of the cub. You know the rest of the story.
They found the bear and destroyed it. He told me the best way to kill a grizzly is to hit it in the front shoulder, ripping off its leg and letting it bleed to death.
Where is this, the link won’t come up for me.
Amazing pictures.
I had a close call with a black bear in the Ocala Forest in Florida last October. It was my first time back-packing and I made a lot of stupid mistakes. I had forgotten to bring a rope to put food in a tree. I had the wrappers from some fruit chewies (very aromatic) inside three plastic bags - thinking that would be good enough. Shortly after dark I could hear a bear approaching my tent - going right for the spot where that wrapper was. I can’t say for sure how big it was, but definitely heavier than any human from the sound of the crunching through the underbrush. I banged together a insect repeallant can and an empty plastic water bottle. It finally backed off. I was up all night long periodically banging those things every time I heard the bear approach. I hate to think what would have happened if I feel asleep. I still don’t know if there’s something else I should have done. (Other than go back in time and not make the food mistake). Nothing I found in my research has told me what to do if a bear comes after you in a tent.
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