A bloodied Ron J. Leming, 37, bends over the 11-year old grizzly bear (No. 1029) that attacked him twice Friday along Castle Creek on the South Fork while he and his father, Ron G. Leming, 62, were on their annual bowhunt in search of elk. The elder Leming managed a tough shot with an arrow that killed the bear and saved his son’s life. (Photo by Ron G. Leming)
How would you like to be out bow hunting and have this brute coming at you?
Has PETA filed a lawsuit yet?
“The night before, Dad said a prayer for God to guide his arrow.”
What a story....Damn, remind me never to go Elk hunting.
i guess the wooden arrow provision in the bailout could be good for something?
when visiting denali state park, a park ranger discouraged my family from camping at the base for this exact reason.
like the boy scout's say, "be prepared."
Wow! Congratulations to a hunter with a cool head and a steady aim that save’s his son’s life.
When a bear is shot with a bow, it can travel several miles before it dies. An arrow kills by hemorrhage not by impact damage.
Nah ... definitely murder. Charge them both.
Ron J. for making the bear chase him, and Ron G. for willful, premeditated murder of a minority.
Hell yes!
See, this country isn’t made up entirely of men who are a bunch of fa%^&*#tt Obama supporters!
Just another day for self respecting Wyoming men.
I hope he gets something really nice for father’s day.
Just read an article on what to do when encountering a Grizzly in the current issue of “Eastman”.
The experts who were interviewed said:
1) Never run since you will trigger their chase instinct and they can run 30 miles an hour, which means that if you run as fast as an NFL halfback and have a 30 yard lead the bear will catch you in 6 seconds, gaining 17 feet per second.
2) Don’t climb a tree as grizzlies can quickly climb 30 feet in most trees. They have been seen to climb shear cliffs 40 yards.
3) Make yourself appear loud and big. Yell but do not scream. You don’t want to let on that you are scared. Do not bend down.
4) If the bear charges it will probably abort the charge, because it just wants to test your response.
5) If it doesn’t abort the charge you should stand and wait for the bear. If you can’t stand to watch the bear approach, you should turn around so you can’t see it get closer. After the bear makes contact, and only then, you play dead.
6) If after a minute of playing dead the bear is still attacking, you should fight back.
7) Pepper spray made especially for bears is more effective than gun. You should carry 2 cans worth in case you miss. The sprays have a range of about 20 feet.
8) You should camp in a dense thicket where a bear would not want to walk, but not where berries are.
9) You should use a tarp instead of a tent so you have a better shot with the pepper spray and a chance to spray more than once.
10) You should camp 1/2 mile from food that is in a special smell containment bag. Bears can smell 100 times better than a bloodhound. Their snouts are much longer with correspondingly greater smell receptors and their brains are specially partitioned to give them a better sense of smell.
11) You, your tarp, and your food bag should not be brightly colored.
12) Do not imagine that a bear’s eyesight is bad. It can see as well as you up to 120 yards away, and fix on a brightly colored person 1/2 a mile away. It doesn’t stand on it’s hind legs because its eyesight is bad, but to get a better vantage point.
13) Once you have established that the bear isn’t interested in pro-actively charging you, then slowly walk away at a 45 degree angle. By walking at an angle you are moving away in 2 directions simultaneously, which gives the illusion of greater distance.
14) The grizzly expert at Yellowstone says they have a bear attach 1 time out of 450,000 nights that people camp out.
15) There have been something like only 3 bear deaths in the last 10 years in the US, this include all types of bears.
brass balls ping
bttt
Thing is, if you are bow hunting in bow only season, ya can’t have a firearm of any kind.
So if ya miss you lose.