Posted on 05/25/2024 5:57:27 AM PDT by marktwain
On Saturday, May 4th, 2024, Ethan Daubs surprised a large boar black bear in an oak brush patch near his house. Ethan is 23 years old. The boar climbed a tree as Daubs drew his Ruger Security 9 from his military-style holster. The bear was about seven yards away. Ethan yelled at the bruin, and it took off at speed across a field. Ethan considered the speed of the respectful bear as it retreated through the woods. He made a policy decision. In the future, if he heard strange noises in the brush, he would draw first, evaluating as events unfolded. As Ethan tells it:
“You are far safer to just have to put the pistol away when it was nothing, compared to having trying to get it out in a matter of life and death.”
On Sunday, May 5th, 2024, Ethan was near the northern border of Colorado. He had left camp about 7 a.m. hunting shed antlers. A little after 11 a.m. he found himself about seven miles from camp, near the border of Wyoming, somewhere south of Dixon, Wyoming. He saw something he thought might be a shed antler across a creek in a flat patch of sagebrush. He crossed the creek and climbed the far bank. The sagebrush was tall, over his head. He heard a bleat/bawl, which he thought might be an antelope fawn. Antelope were common in the area. Then he heard a grunt.
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When it comes to black bears most any good handgun with good ammunition well work.
I must really be a city person. I’m reading ‘shed antler’ and thinking ‘antlers that are kept in the shed’.
Took me a minute to understand the phrase.
Saw a YouTube video of a hunter witnessing a deer lose one of his antlers. The video also showed a ticked-off deer shaking off the remaining one. The dood walked away with both.
Shed antlers are sold to make money.
A very good market for them.
Those sheds are hard as steel. We pulled one out of a tractor tire two years ago.
Unless you’re selling them attached to the animal, all of the antlers are shed.
Good story, but man alive, calling his dad in the middle of it? Not smart except to maybe say a location. But there’s no help coming, you better handle it then call.
No, there farms who cut the antlers off.
That was an exciting read. I always enjoy AmmoLand.
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