Posted on 09/18/2024 2:24:22 AM PDT by blueplum
A 12-year-old boy slayed a 200-pound bear to save his father’s life during a family outing gone horribly wrong.
Owen Beierman, 12, shot-and-killed the black bear before it could fatally maul his dad, Ryan, who became pinned under the monstrous beast when shots fired to kill it missed.
‘My left cheek was sliced open and blood was oozing out of the flap. There were two fang marks in my forehead and my face was smattered with blood,’ Ryan told the Star Tribune.
‘The bear was fighting for its life, and I was fighting for mine,’ he continued....
Owen, a regular hunter, was prepared for an event like this, firing off his rifle and killing the bear as it eventually rolled off of his father....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
And it will be relegated to only an obscure media outlet (American Handgunner) page 32.
For a small state, N.J. has quite a bit of wildlife, especially the north western part and the southern pine barrens. Pocono Mts. and other parts of Pennsy have some huge black bears also. The following is the largest in N.J.
“The largest bear ever caught in New Jersey is also one of the largest black bears ever caught across North America. Hunter Bruce Headley, hoping to shoot a deer at the time, brought down the bear when he saw it from his deer stand. Its live weight came to a whopping 829 pounds. Headley and his helpers had to cut a path through the brush using a chainsaw to get the massive carcass out of the woods. He shot the bear on December 9, 2011, in Jefferson Township.”
Them mafia fed bears sure do get big.
A friend of Mine went Bow hunting for Bear He never went again won’t talk about it to this day
I’d like to think that at a 6-foot range, I could hit 6/6 with a pistol, much more so with a rifle.
Let me revise it to 8 for 8.
“I’d like to think that at a 6-foot range, I could hit 6/6 with a pistol, much more so with a rifle.”
If he had a scope on that rifle and tried to use it that would explain why he didn’t hit anything. Better to just point the barrel and shoot at that range.
“Same on our property in upstate PA...200lbs bear is small to average weight...we have a
male roaming around this year that is in the 450 to 500lbs range..”
Sounds about right for what I have seen in Northeast PA.
The bear walked up to a bulletin board to look at it’s picture. Also to see what was on the menu...
Giant Bear Casually Walks Past Tourists in Alaska’s Katmai National Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pJGjLp6cnk
King of the wild frontier.🤠
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