Posted on 06/15/2023 11:10:20 PM PDT by wardaddy
Fed bear, hmmm. Do you think the bears are FBI?
I lived on a mountain top right between Mount Mitchell and the Roan Mountain. We had bears and mountain lions often. But it’s nothing like what my MIL is experiencing in her suburb setting.
Stayed in a cabin in Gatlinburg called “Baby Black Bear”.
True to it’s name, one walked onto the porch.
Just dealt with a blonde bear (black bear that looks like it got the peroxide treatment), small probably 175 lbs or so. Relaxed by my decorative pond, then wandered towards the bird feeder. Tried yelling at it, threw a small rock, neither got its attention. So I loaded up a rat shot .22 shell and popped it in the butt. It took off at speed. One of our other neighbors must have seen it because the several Sheriff deputies drove up and down the road.
They can eat the homeless but then you have drug addled bears. Quite the conundrum....
I live in the mountains and have one gentleman that is allowed to hunt on our property and he hunts turkey with a .10 gauge single shot shotgun.
A couple of years ago he was in his blind and heard a noise and watched a monstrous black bear come ambling through the woods walking straight towards him. He stood up and did the usual things you are supposed to do and the bear kept coming towards him. Finally at about thirty yards he said he was calculating he could get one round off for sure, maybe two. He raised hit shotgun up and decided at twenty yards he would open fire. At twenty yards he took aim and the bear stopped, looked at him and grunted, then turned and ran the other way. He estimated 400-500lbs range for this critter.
We had one running the streets of our inner suburb here in the Boston area several weeks ago.
We are really getting swamped with coyotes these days. Two of them were howling on my front lawn recently. I back up to seven acres of conservation land...in a suburb, as dense as this one, this conservation land is a big attraction to wildlife. So we see it all.
What, does TN have just one black bear?
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