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When we were down mentasta, there was a half breed guy that had been raised native that lived on the lake. Pretty good guy and awesome with his old peep sights. The reds would spawn along the shoreline. Bears were forever in his yard. He once told me he killed his first bear at 14 with 30-30; said he had nightmares over it for years. He also had an immaculate 06 that he used of late. Bears really hammer the moose calves and he did what he could to help the moose out.

He also had a big old german shepard/wolf cross that just hated the bears. Whenever some bear wandered across his front yard, old pal would go about nuts. Now that dog couldn't kill a bear but the bear avoided him like the plague and would leave. That dog did more to keep those grizz away from that cabin than all the guns in the world.

Dogs are just great for everything. They are willing to protect you from almost anything. As I grew up I had a bunch of cats. I lost a few of these to stray dogs that would pack. After I got a few dogs of my own, I never lost anymore cats. The dogs that I had would protect my cats from other dogs. One or two of the cats would actually run to my dogs instead of climbing trees if anything got after them.