(Courtesy of Alaska State Senator Shelley Hughes)
The quick thinking of a young boy saved a fishing party from a charging brown bear, according to Alaska State Troopers.
Posted on 07/01/2017 6:32:39 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Elliot Clark, 11, was walking through the woods near Game Creek last week with his three family members and three dogs when the bear came out and charged them, The Juneau Empire reported.
The bear ran through two of the men, pushing them to the side of the trail, leaving Elliot and his cousin left in its path, Elliot's father, Lucas, said.
"There was four of them in a line. My son was third," Elliot's father said. "The bear came down the trail at them, fella in the front, who was his uncle, the bear was on him so quickly that he didn't have time to take his rifle off his shoulder."
The boy then raised his pump action shotgun and shot the bear with birdshot.
His father said the first shot did nothing, but two more downed the bear and finishing shots by the boy and his uncle killed it.
"That first shot hit him in the shoulder and did absolutely nothing," he said. "The next shot hit him in the nose and traveled down through the neck."
Elliot's father said not getting around to putting a sling on his son's gun might have saved their lives, as he was able to quickly ready himself.
"He was carrying it in his hands rather than on his shoulder," he said. "That was the problem with the other ones, when the bear came at his uncle, he had his rifle on his shoulder and the bear was very close, so he couldn't get it off in time."
The incident was the first Defense of Life or Property killing in the Hoonah area this year, Alaska State Trooper
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Well this kid is no snowflake
Sweet and Sour Bear Jerky please
Apparently bears are going crazy in AK now. Two lives lost in the last few weeks.
Good shootin’ Junior. Some bears just need killin’—and eatin’.
ISIS is recruiting bears?
(Courtesy of Alaska State Senator Shelley Hughes)
The quick thinking of a young boy saved a fishing party from a charging brown bear, according to Alaska State Troopers.
Good job kid!
Can he do that? I mean, ummm... shoot the uhhh, you know... bear? Is it legal I mean? /s
Cool story. Sounds like something out of a Davy Crockett legend!
The best place to shoot a charging bear is straight into the nose. The best place for a side shot is in the temple area, on a line halfway between the eye and the ear hole.
Lucky that wasn’t a full grown male grizzly or Brown bear. No chance against a grizzly.
Birdshot normally just irritates Big Ben. These guys are fortunate indeed.
But he would have needed a bigger gun against a full grown male Grizzly
Sweet and Sour Bear Jerky please
You can have all the bear jerky you want.
Not if he destroyed the eyes.
This bearskin on his floor will be populated by an Alaska cutie in a few years, I predict ;)
If you pay attention, you can still hear the heartbeat of our country. It beats in this boy.
“Lucky that wasn’t a full grown male grizzly or Brown bear. No chance against a grizzly.”
A load of anything out of a shot gun, point blank, might as well be a slug, and up the nose? The results could easily be the same with a brown bear.
Good shootin’ kid.
Only if "well-done", as bears can carry the trichinosis organism just like pigs.
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