Posted on 11/18/2009 4:26:00 PM PST by JoeProBono
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev., Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Homeowners and authorities in Incline Village, Nev., say they're on the lookout for a marauding, 700-pound black bear .
The bear, they say, has caused as much as $70,000 in damage so far this year, including havoc wrought inside a home it has broken into several times, the Reno (Nev.) Gazette-Journal reported Wednesday.
"The deputies up there all say he's the biggest bear they've ever seen," Carl Lackey, a biologist and bear expert with the Nevada Department of Wildlife, told the newspaper. "He'll walk right by a trap. He won't go in them. He's really random in where he goes. He's made it real tough to catch up with him."
Lackey said the owner of the bear's favorite home shot it with a .44 magnum handgun this year when he confronted it on a staircase. The bullet struck the bruin in the head but only bounced off its skull, he said.
The bear was back two weeks later, once again breaking into garages, the newspaper said. Police estimate it has broken into 40 to 50 garages this year.
Don’t shoot Gentle Ben.
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.
As Joe Pesci said in Casino “degenerate gamblers.”
Frankly, I’d just give the big fellow the house and be done with it.
Uh, exactly what is that woman doing-—down there? She even looks guilty.
I think he needs a pedicure.
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.
Which is why many expert bear hunters recommend shooting them in the shoulder first.
Well we now know who wins the cola challenge. Pepsi vs Coke.
Bearnip. The industrial strength version of catnip.
It's almost at the end of this article.
http://www.windstar.org/knowledge_center_article.cfm?articleID=485
Perhaps a .50 cal Desert Eagle would do the trick????
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.
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