Posted on 10/25/2018 8:54:21 AM PDT by C19fan
Canadian officials are investigating a horrific standoff that led to a man shooting a charging grizzly bear in his front yard.
Shocking footage shows Lawrence Michalchuk encountering the mother bear and her three cubs after the group wandered onto his Bella Coola, British Columbia, property.
He had just returned home with his wife after visiting in-laws in the city, according to the video's caption.
Michalchuk fired two warning shots at the huge beast in an effort to get the animals to flee.
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He was lucky, but it’s a pretty good example of why the long gun registry in Canada was done away with... We have Grizzly Bears... And we need guns.
At very close range, birdshot is deadly. It is traveling at around 1500fps or so. But it has to be real close so the shot doesn’t spread out.....like 10 feet or so. I wouldn’t use it on a 50 foot distance. It is better than hoping the bear slips in your poop as you run away.
The bear didn’t retreat!
What does the media know about guns? Absolutely zero. Was it really bird shot? If so, that dude is the luckiest man on earth - except for the guy who just won $1.6B.
Canada? RCMP will throw him in jail for having a gun more likely than culling the bears.
The video reminds me of the “Blair Witch Project.”
There's his first and second mistake.
Warning shots? Give me a break.
I always laugh when people say “only” birdshot. At close range, birdshot would blow a huge hole through you.
RCMP is the Canadian Gestapo. Forget Dudley Do-Right.
The guy fired on a target from a few feet away with a shotgun and bird shot, with a weapon made to scatter, and all he hit was a foot? From that distance, the whole front of the target would have been hit and a good amount of what was downrange.
Better guess is he used a slug, was prepared to shoot and kill the animal which he can’t in most cases do with bird shot. But either didn’t have tags or tried to make it look like a charge and it got closer than he wanted for his fifteen minutes of fame.
Anyone that lives in that situation knows not to mess with a sow and cubs as the bear will not retreat at a certain point. And if he didn’t know that, why did he have his gun available? Why didn’t he just go into the house or get back into the car and let the bear look around and leave? Why did he get out in plain view with the cubs there that created the situation of the charge by a grazing sow? This was a setup that got a little out of control.
He should be arrested rather than recognized.
rwood
I’m glad everybody is OK after this frightening encounter. With that said...
TURN YOUR CAMERA SIDE TO SIDE,
SO THE VIDEO’S NICE AND WIDE.
It’s 2018, let’s stop filming in portrait mode.
That looks like a handgun. I can’t see the stock and both elbows are away from his body.
Correct. at 10 feet with a full choke, mine puts a 2 inch hole through a solid core door. at farther distance, it looses its energy developed because the shot becomes individual light weight projectiles, instead of a one concentrated mass. at close range.
Was it wearing a white William Shatner mask?
I think I would have skipped trying to shoot warning or real shots at the bear and just run for the house. If that guy had tripped and fallen while backing away, he would be a goner.
In the bear’s defense, it didn’t know about any duty to retreat or the stand your ground defense.
I like my birdshot like I like my orange juice...concentrated.
That's my question. The bears were across the yard and he's the one that "charged" first by running toward them. What did he expect the mama bear to do?
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