Posted on 06/19/2010 2:35:42 AM PDT by SLB
“Evert, who was not armed and was not carrying bear spray”.
What else can you say? When big critters lose their fear of man it’s a dangerous state of affairs.
There’s a reason why the premier makers of monster single-action revolvers are here in Wyoming (Freedom Arms and John Linebaugh).
Even in the Big Horns, where we aren’t supposed to have anything bigger than cats, black bear and moose... I take a .45 while hiking or hunting.
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I was raised near Wheatland, but still have a couple of bear stories. A local farmer heard his cattle in a feed lot bawling one morning. Went out and there was a black bear up a utility pole. He called the Game Warden to come and get the body.
I went elk hunting by Pinedale in about 1965 with my dad and a friend of his who had lost an arm in WW2. The friend came back to our little camp one day and started packing. He told my dad that a bear had followed him all day. He would walk and the bear would walk. He would stop and the bear would stop. The bear would loop around some and be waiting for him to pass through an area. He said that a man with two arms had little to no chance against a bear so what chance did a one armed man have? We did not get an elk that year.
Local Killed by Bear Placed in his Yard by Government
Lucky for him he was mauled and killed; if he’d defended himself, he’d be in real trouble.
Drat those government bears.
Neal said bear researchers were returning from the capture site when they were told by Evert’s wife, Yolanda, that he was missing.
Oh.. SNAP!
Now I'll be thinking of Pulp Fiction all day and Jules (Samuel L Jackson) telling Yolanda to be cool, just like Fonzie.
If they knew what they were doing it wouldn’t be called research.
I would suggest a .44 magnum at the minimum.
Were they periodically interviewing the bears?
Why can't they regulate these bear's. So much anger, so much hate, Dang that rap music.
Regulations do not allow it at this time.
No gun. No bear spray. Grizzly country. Not a good combination.
Prayers for the gentleman.
35 years ago my husband and I were backpacking the continental divide and were in southern Colorado when we came upon sheepherder and his sheep. He told us some of what we already knew - that there were black bears in the area and that we should hang our food in the trees. He also told us that we would probably be okay because we had a dog with us. We thought that was pretty funny since our dog was a dachshund (although a 30 pound one) but he said it wasn’t the size of the dog but his smell. He had a sheep dog who sat calmly at his side and hardly even looked at our dog. Anyway, we heard the sheep through that night but by morning they had moved on. We never encountered any bear. Years later, camping in the boundary waters with our kids, we smelled bear - no mistaking it - large predator poop. And a friend who lives close to Yellowstone up on the side of a mountain, has had a grizzle leave claw marks on the outside of her bedroom window on the second floor. She sleeps with a gun and pepper spray now.
If you read the story you’ll see the bear had just been released by researchers who tagged it.
So the bear was probably looking for a little revenge.
What kind of spray does one use with a big bear?
The wife told the crew he was missing and they went back to the trap site, where they found the remains of the hiker.
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