[Squantos]

Honest question, no intent to insult but do you hunt ?

What this guy was doing is done thousands of times during elk and deer season....... always safer to hunt in pairs and in dangerous game (grizzly) country one hunter ALWAYS watches while the other hunter dresses out the game harvested.

Any grizzly with cubs is defensive of her cubs which is interpreted as aggressive by most. Of late the sound of a gunshot is a pavlov's doggie dinner bell to hungry critters somewhat. Not proven but suspected.

[xsrdx]

always safer to hunt in pairs and in dangerous game (grizzly) country one hunter ALWAYS watches while the other hunter dresses out the game harvested.

Large, bloody carcass & known bear country.... recipe for diligence.

Add in a bit of conditioning for the "dinner bell" gunshot, a hungry Sow griz with cubs, and dressing your kill could get dicey.

[river rat]

I'm surprised more "hunters" aren't killed every year...

The dangers have become significant -- both from the declining skills and recklessness of other "hunters" mistaking them for game, or simply shooting at movement, getting lost and panic sets in, becoming injured while alone or incapable of communicating for help, etc, etc.... ------ and those poor bastards who don't realize they have become the HUNTED.

Man has been brainwashed into believing he is the superior "predator".....
This belief is invalid, when the hunter is not aware HE has been observed first by the REAL predators in the AO..

Semper Fi