Posted on 11/23/2021 3:53:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
A Louisiana man deer hunting in Mississippi was looking for a trophy deer, but he wound up bagging something much more special, a memory he’ll never forget thanks to four black bears.
Hunter Art Melancon of Larose, Louisiana, was hunting on a lease in Franklin County, Mississippi when he captured the rare sight on video.
“I’ve been hunting there for 12 years,” Melancon said. “We’ve seen bear tracks, I get them on my game camera, but I’d never seen a live bear.”
Two weeks ago that changed and he saw a single bear as he was hunting.
“I was super excited, I’d finally seen a bear,” Melancon said.
But the following Thursday, Nov. 18, Melancon saw something very few hunters see.
“I hurried up and got the stand, the wind was in my face,” he said. “I hear something on the side of me, and hear something walking and there’s a big bear sitting there.”
Melancon was in a box stand approximately six feet off the ground.
He said he watched the bear eating grass for a minute.
“Then a little while later, there’s another one comes out,” he said. “Then on my right another one came out.”
“When the third one came out, I say oh ****!” Melancon said. “It was crazy because I’ve been wanting to see one. Then one week I see one, then the following week I see four come out.”
Melancon guesses that one of the bears was a female and two of the others were her babies from last year and the fourth, perhaps, was this year’s cub.
“I could have dropped a pin on them, they were right there,” he said.
Melancon said he didn’t get a deer that day, but he didn’t care. He got a memory of a lifetime.
“It actually made my day seeing those bears than actually killing a deer.
Two species of black bear live in Mississippi, the American black bear and the Louisiana black bear. The species are visually identical, but have slightly different DNA and bone structure, officials with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks say.
The four bears in the video are Louisiana back bear, based on where they were spotted.
For many years, the Louisiana black bear was listed as federally threatened. They were removed from that list recently, but remain listed as endangered and thus protected by Mississippi law.
As recently as 2002, when the state of Mississippi setup a bear protection program it was believed that perhaps less than 50 bears existed in the state.
Now, thanks to protection measures, the state believes more than three times that many bears exist in the state.
There is a belief, or rumor, that the OO seed balls repel spiders. My aunt, knowing that I don’t like spiders, brought a grocery sack full of them to me from Iowa.
I placed them all around my little basement apartment. Didn’t notice any reduction in spiders at all. lol
Dried OO seed balls might be fun to splatter with a baseball bat though.
Better than seeing Hunter bare...
Vertical video alert.
When will they ever learn?
The bears however, recalled how they almost had a lunch that day, but it was too high on the shelf.
:)
Uh... No, I don’t keep any sex photos of Hunter Biden. That would be weird.
I read that it repelled cockroaches.
Hope you do not need to test that out!
Thankfully no. :)
Exactly what I thought when I saw the headline.
Wow, that’s great! Four bears together in the wild.
Their perfect looking fur is amazing.
Seems real given the whispering of the hunter.
I think it IS real.
However, it is so incredible it almost seems like it would be fake, perhaps from from a zoo type setting. We Freepers are suspicious! Probably real though.
Try one of these links published right in the “source” for that article linked to, it should not trigger an ad blocker issue so you can see it easier:
https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/m9SPJIEz-vNPZkIlt.mp4 (for 720p, larger)
https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/m9SPJIEz-BzuYTrol.mp4 (for 406p, smaller, if the above does not work)
LOL!! Thanks for the link! Black Bear Lives Matter!!
Bois D’arc
Correction: They are “bears of color”. They are victims of Polar bear supremacy.
Quote: Theyre always so rude. If theyre going to show up for a meal uninvited they should at least bring a bottle of wine or a fruit salad or something.
I know, right? :)
Silly bears thinking they’re high on the food chain or something.
One of the dad’s in the group actually bonked one of the bears on the nose with a stick. My Dad wished he had his 45-70 along, don’t blame him.
It was a long hike out. But not as long as the hike in...
Evidence!
Octex...Thank yuo for the Correction ! :)
There is a large pile of the fruit up the street a block or so. Messy when you run over them!
Three houses up the street from where I grew up in a new housing area of SW Dallas TX in the ‘40-’50s, there was a line of those “horse apple” trees that ran for several miles N and S through the area. Some even still had some pieces of barbwire embedded. They served as property lines for the ranchers and farmers who owned the land before.
We kids built platforms and treehouses in the trees. When the green fruit dropped, we would compete to see who could roll them like bowling balls the farthest down our paved street.
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