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700-pound black bear bedevils Nev. town [shot with a .44 magnum bullet bounced off its skull]
upi ^ | Nov. 18, 2009

Posted on 11/18/2009 4:26:00 PM PST by JoeProBono

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To: JoeProBono

Don’t shoot Gentle Ben.


21 posted on 11/18/2009 5:01:41 PM PST by yarddog
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To: MrPiper

I prefer a .45-70 with the Garrett 540 grain Hammerhead load.


22 posted on 11/18/2009 5:03:38 PM PST by technically right
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To: technically right
I prefer a .45-70 with the Garrett 540 grain Hammerhead load.

Yep,,, that would do the job,,, but can you buy that at walmart? ;-)

12 gauge is the king for one size fits all. Squirrel to griz and everything in between. One gun does it all.

23 posted on 11/18/2009 5:07:55 PM PST by MrPiper
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To: JoeProBono
They should leave the bear alone and do something about Hairy Reid.

As Joe Pesci said in Casino “degenerate gamblers.”

24 posted on 11/18/2009 5:08:24 PM PST by Frantzie (Judge David Carter - democrat & dishonorable Marine like John Murtha.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Frankly, I’d just give the big fellow the house and be done with it.


25 posted on 11/18/2009 5:10:29 PM PST by dools007
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To: JoeProBono

Uh, exactly what is that woman doing-—down there? She even looks guilty.


26 posted on 11/18/2009 5:11:57 PM PST by dools007
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To: JoeProBono

I think he needs a pedicure.


27 posted on 11/18/2009 5:13:26 PM PST by dools007
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To: Daffynition

28 posted on 11/18/2009 5:14:46 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Deaf Smith

Well, my neighbor said he was just looking in. If he had wanted to, he would have come in. I did have raw chicken in the garbage out there at the time from cooking chicken earlier in the day and I believe that is what drew him, but he just looked in and left. I have a high 24” kickplate but he could have come in if he wanted to. I heard a loud noise that first night about 9pm and that may have been him but I saw nothing till the next day. The screen was torn from the wall and the paw marks were on the other screen. After I had another new screen put in he put his claws through it the very next night! He has broken into neighbors porches here and I saw him in my back yard at 1:30 am. He tossed a garbage can on the ground that I had a bungee cord on and his huge wet footprints were all over the pavement near my back door. I was jogging the other night about 9:30pm on my street and I could not believe my eyes! There he was on the edge of the road at my neighbors house and I was running towards him! I turned around and leaped like Peter Pan into the house never looking back! When I got inside, I opened the door and looked and he was gone. Needless to say I put my garbage in my shed now. He will no doubt rip the doors off of that.


29 posted on 11/18/2009 5:34:28 PM PST by sheikdetailfeather (Let's ROLL!!)
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To: JoeProBono
The bullet struck the bruin in the head but only bounced off its skull, he said.

Which is why many expert bear hunters recommend shooting them in the shoulder first.

30 posted on 11/18/2009 5:44:27 PM PST by D Rider
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31 posted on 11/18/2009 5:51:51 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Well we now know who wins the cola challenge. Pepsi vs Coke.


32 posted on 11/18/2009 6:08:26 PM PST by Redcitizen (Zartan for President 2012)
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To: VicVega

Bearnip. The industrial strength version of catnip.


33 posted on 11/18/2009 6:09:25 PM PST by Redcitizen (Zartan for President 2012)
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34 posted on 11/18/2009 6:29:49 PM PST by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: JoeProBono
Back in 1998 an 880lb black bear was killed in Vanceboro, NC.

It's almost at the end of this article.

http://www.windstar.org/knowledge_center_article.cfm?articleID=485

35 posted on 11/18/2009 6:49:09 PM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: All

Perhaps a .50 cal Desert Eagle would do the trick????


36 posted on 11/18/2009 7:14:09 PM PST by ak267
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To: JoeProBono
I'll bet my S&W XVR 460 Magnum (5" bbl) would get his attention.
37 posted on 11/18/2009 7:21:25 PM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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38 posted on 11/18/2009 7:24:25 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: ExSoldier

39 posted on 11/18/2009 7:26:11 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

I’d been having problems with a good 400 pound black bear, while I’ve been building my house in the white mtns, of NH. I was carrying my 9mm glock, and I can testify that with the right rounds, they do penetrate a bears skull.


40 posted on 11/18/2009 8:18:56 PM PST by krogers58
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