Posted on 09/19/2011 5:57:57 PM PDT by SJackson
Edited on 09/19/2011 6:14:25 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A grizzly bear killed a hunter before being fatally shot Friday near the Boundary County, Idaho, limits, the latest in a series of deadly grizzly bear attacks in the Northwest.
Three men from Nevada were hunting bears in a remote area of Buckhorn Mountain near the Montana border when the grizzly attacked one of them and was shot and killed by a group member, authorities say.
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This is a bogus story. These three idiots were authorized to hunt black bears and, “accidentally” shot a grizzly. The only self defense was on the part of the grizzly. It’s just a shame a noble creature had to die, as well.
That’s not how I want to go.
If one is not skilled enough to tell the difference between a black bear and a grizzly. One shouldn't hunt.
Need to brush up on your reading comprehension skills?
so being ethical hunters, they waited a while then started tracking the bear after wounding it....the grizzly then charged and had to be put down the rest of the way...
its easy to make a mistake in the woods....half the people in the country would call a bull elk a moose any day of the week....
these guys were not road hunters or using atv's ....they hiked a considerable distance to a very remove area and as I understand it, one of them was a professional guide and at least two of them hunted that area before....
my own beloved is somewhere in the Hells canyon area with a bow looking to find a prime elk so this story hits home for me....
Damn that 2nd Amendment; If we never had the right to “Keep and arm bears”....
Here’s the point. If you’re a hunter and you decide to go after black bears, or grizzlies, or elk or bunny rabbits- and the animal wins- well, that’s tough sh!t. If you expect the animal to roll over and give up- you ain’t much of a man or a hunter.
I think black bear is the ONLY game animal not to resurface in Texas. Used to be prime quarry in Civil War times, for their fat used in frying.
Which was the noble creature? The bear or the hunter he killed?
The bear, by far. He was out manned, he was outgunned, but he still went down fighting and took one of the hunters with him. The family of this hunter should be honored their loved one was beaten by a superior foe.
Some days you hunt the bear and some days...
seems like a fair outcome.
The bear got one.
Have either one of you hunted bear?
Yes, many a time.
Seems like black bear are mainly fish eaters (and berries and honey) that need rivers and creeks that don’t run dry like they do here in Centex.
Funny things that scare some and not other people. I wouldn’t be bothered if my daughter ran across a black bear, but we found an alligator (actually a Caiman, 5 ft long, a pet) and she was banned from the lake! (Travis). :)
Nope, never have, never will.
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