Posted on 12/03/2021 11:45:45 AM PST by Red Badger
CLEARFIELD COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) – Picture this: You’re sitting in the woods alone after just getting your first white-tail. You’re excited, your heart is already racing, and then out of nowhere a black bear shows up intent on making your buck its lunch.
One woman in Pennsylvania had that very experience, with not one … but four bears. Jordan Zabinski went hunting for the first time over the Thanksgiving weekend and shot her first buck.
“I was so terrified of a bear, and my husband was like, ‘I’ve never seen a bear except for this one time.’ He said, ‘Don’t worry, you’re not gonna see one,’” Zabinski said.
But right after she knocked down the buck, she found out she wasn’t alone.
“I hear like, crunching. And I’m like, ‘There’s a deer, there’s a deer!’” she said.
But it wasn’t another deer. She was staring at four black bears.
After multiple unanswered texts and calls to her husband, who was helping her brother load a deer he had killed, she started to worry.
“At first I was really quiet, but then I really started to freak out,” Zabinski said. After finally getting a hold of her husband, she had to wait about 30 minutes more, so she tried to keep as quiet as possible.
“It’s been a while now and no one’s coming. What if they don’t to get me in time?” she worried.
Once her husband and brother arrived, they scared away the bears and recovered the deer carcass, which was only missing the tail.
While terrifying, Jordan said she’ll carry what she learned from the experience with her moving forward. She even went hunting again the following day.
“Now I know that if I just yell they are going to run because that’s all they did was just come up and yell.”
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In Florida that would get you 4 prison terms..................
“Which was only missing the tail”
Maybe that deer owed them money.
Hey! It’s Pennsylvania.
That’s the plot of Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea”..............
When I saw “Hunter” in the headline, I thought this would ba about Brandon’s son.
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Hunter shoots first buck, but has laptop stolen by bear on a shark with a machinegun, and chases him into a mermaid crackhouse
Was only missing its tail.
Even bears need a piece of tail occasionally.
I remember a story in Tap’s Tips in Outdoor Life many years ago where a hunter shot his first buck. Excited and not quite sure what to do, he remembered his buddy telling him he wanted the tail for tying jigs. So he cut it off first thing.
However, the deer was just stunned. It woke up and ran away leaving the hunter holding its tail!
Ever heard of a sidearm, lady?
Offshore fishermen can relate....only instead of bears its sharks.
On the old west coast, new comers like me learned the hard way to quickly bring in salmon and other game fish before a Great White “Noshed” them into its’ mall.
“Now I know that if I just yell they are going to run.”
I live in PA close to game lands. We got a black bear in our yard trying to get into our chicken coop. I opened the door and yelled as loudly and threateningly as could: “HEY!!!!! GET OUT OF HERE!!!” Bear took off so fast he knocked down the fence to the chicken run.
I was very proud of myself.
Next year we had a yearling come into our yard near the coop. I figured, ok no problem I got this. Again yelled out loudly and threateningly as I could.
He turned, looked at me, and kept on doing what he was doing. Kept coming back that summer until the game warden trapped him and relocated him.
Just be aware you can get the odd bear that will call your bluff, Mrs. Zabinski. :)
Maybe he was deaf!...............................
You kidding, right? Bear meat is the nastiest of nasty, nothing on earth could get me to eat it again.
Central PA, not Joisey-neighbor. Over there, the bear woulda come up and said, ‘Nice bear ya got there, be a shame if something happened to it”.
Smart bears. Maybe more bears ought to start letting the hunters get their food ready - LOL.
The trouble comes when the bears learn to associate gunfire with fresh meat.
chuckle....WYDTISI!
Ha! You know I never considered that.
Warden thought he was just an overly aggressive male yearling. :)
Someone took their wife out hunting, for the FIRST TIME, and didn’t SIT WITH THEM?
Whatta azz!
they'd look at you like you'd lost your mind.
I agree....something isn't right.
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