Posted on 08/15/2022 8:42:46 PM PDT by george76
A bear entered a home in Steamboat at 2 a.m. Saturday. Kelly Mauldin heard her dogs barking and got up to investigate and discovered the 300-400 male bear in her house. She screamed for her husband, Ken, who got up and shot and killed the bear.
When I went to my bedroom door, I saw the bear about 10 feet away and shot it instantly with a 40-caliber, semi-automatic handgun. Then the bear charged me. I continued shooting at it as fast as I could. The bullet hole in the floor suggested the bear got about five to six feet from me when he backed up, changed directions, and crashed through the bannister railing onto the stairs, where he collapsed at the bottom of the stairs.”
Rachael Gonzales with Colorado Parks and Wildlife says “given the facts of this incident, the homeowner was within his legal rights.” She wants to remind everyone that all ground level windows and doors should always be locked.
This is a great reminder to lock your front doors, back doors, close the garage doors if you’re not inside your garage doing stuff actively. But especially those ground level windows and front doors, making sure they are closed and locked all day long and overnight. It’s easy access for bears to get into so we want to eliminate that easy access
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It was a lever handle that the bear used to get into an unlocked door at the house. Mauldin says the bear had been a frequent visitor to houses in the neighborhood, which was near CMC in the Hill Streets area.
“When is it illegal to kill a bear in your house? This country has gone to hell.”
Post of the day!
Wouldn’t it be funny if Massachusetts someday stops trying to hide the decline and votes to officially change the name of their state to “Mass” ?
I bet a voter referendum to do that would pass.
I wonder if they could just do the bearskin rug on the spot and would it bring the room together?
The right to BEAR 🐻🐻🐻 arms.
Maybe the bear was just skiing and missed a turn on a double black diamond?
Is there snow in August in Steamboat Springs? 😜
Seriously, glad they’re OK.
Thank heavens for the dogs.
“Kind of like the natives of Massachusetts refer to their state as Mass.
And they cannot spell the name of their state.”
That’s a far cry from New York.
Nope.
When Wildlife officials show up they confiscate the carcass.
They will take varied measurements, skull, tooth, and paw size.
Depending on the species and circumstance it may be harvested for meat.
Most times it will be professionally skinned.
The departments have annual auctions, if this guy wants the hide he will have to bid on it.
.40, I would say a “High capacity” magazine and keep going until success or flight.
Despite that I do know of an Alaskan native woman (PC enough?) who killed a Grizzly with a single .22LR shot.
Right through its open mouth and the soft upper palate into the brain.
I would never want to try to duplicate that shot.
Kelly Mauldin felt ‘maudlin’ after her husband shot the bear.
I’d wager he’s gonna be sick of that joke in a hurry, but it’ll make a story he can drink on for the rest of his life.
So people are supposed to live in a prison to avoid bears breaking and entering?
See now, a Ring doorbell...
😜
Sissy had to use a gun.
;D
You have a “duty to retreat from apex predators in your living room”, maybe?
;D
Colorado has too many bears.. Bears snack on deer fawns and elk calves like you snack on hors d’oeuvres at a cocktail party.. You cannot have such an over- abundance of predators without consequences..
How did this happen? In 1992, city and newbie democrats .. sponsored an amendment to the Colorado Constitution to ban the spring bear hunting season and ... With traditional methods of bear hunting cancelled , bear numbers exploded ..
~ Gary Hubbell, Delta County Independent - Nov 8, 2019.
Now I'm confused. Did someone exercise their right to arm bears? Or whatever that right is. Depending on the claws. Or clause.
Bear 40 cal save
That boot in the photo is all that is left of a person the bear first encountered on the way in.....
I’ve seen the remnants of a locked door a bear came through east of Cave Junction Oregon five years ago
Hardly slowed him down before the 45-70 dropped him
I was wondering why someone was still using Steamboats in this day and age? Especially on the angry Colorado.
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