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Whoa! This is one scary dude!
1 posted on 11/17/2003 6:27:31 AM PST by Damocles
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To: mhking
You may want to see this one...
2 posted on 11/17/2003 6:27:56 AM PST by Damocles (sword of...)
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To: Damocles
Man, I'm glad I wasn't a worker on whatever shift he was the foreman on.

Great big brass ones that clang when he walks . . .

3 posted on 11/17/2003 6:28:43 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)
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To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
As for the battle itself, Hirsch said it never occurred to him that he would lose to the bear.

I'd love to have him as a neighbor...

Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

4 posted on 11/17/2003 6:37:07 AM PST by mhking
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To: Damocles; Squantos; Jeff Head; ChefKeith
bonk!

object lesson here.

yikes!

5 posted on 11/17/2003 6:40:33 AM PST by glock rocks (molon labe)
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To: Damocles
"He came out of nowhere," said Hirsch, 61, an avid hunter and outdoorsman and bear wrestler.
7 posted on 11/17/2003 6:43:02 AM PST by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
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To: Travis McGee
This is how I picture you. At 61 years old, you kill a black bear mano-a-ursus, armed only with a 3 1/2 inch knife.
8 posted on 11/17/2003 6:45:15 AM PST by Lazamataz (PROUDLY SCARING FELLOW FREEPERS SINCE 1999 !!!!)
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To: Damocles
A 3 1/2 inch knife! That guy was very lucky the bear was injured and weak. Not so with the bear...poor beast. I hate to see any animal suffer. Glad it was put down. It would have been a different story if it had found a child.
9 posted on 11/17/2003 6:46:35 AM PST by Lee Heggy (When marriage is outlawed only outlaws will have inlaws)
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To: Damocles
"Lived in the land of British Columbia

Greatest province in the country Canada,

Raisin' up some turkeys with his wife fer fun,

Kilt him a bar when he was 61!"

from Tia's husband......

11 posted on 11/17/2003 6:59:11 AM PST by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
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To: Damocles
note to self; take .44magnum when checking on the turkeys.
13 posted on 11/17/2003 7:06:27 AM PST by gdc61
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To: Damocles
bttfl
14 posted on 11/17/2003 7:07:12 AM PST by Cacique
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To: Damocles
He should have been carrying a .357, or a .44 mag.
15 posted on 11/17/2003 7:09:36 AM PST by waterstraat
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To: Damocles
It stood about 5 foot 7 inches to Hirsch's 5 feet 9 inches and weighed 200 pounds

The mean old man killed a widdle baby bear!

17 posted on 11/17/2003 7:15:44 AM PST by Sloth ("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
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To: Damocles
Ok .... NOW THIS is one bad motherf$%^er ......

Smauel L Jackson: take notes.

18 posted on 11/17/2003 7:20:54 AM PST by Centurion2000 (Resolve to perform what you ought, perform without fail what you resolve.)
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To: Damocles
Wow, what an amazing gent! 200 lbs is pretty small, but I bet it was ferocious given that it was already hurt and starving...

Can't climb a tree or outrun them... most folks would have been dead after running into that one.


24 posted on 11/17/2003 9:39:29 AM PST by Tamzee (EARTH FIRST!!! We'll stripmine the other planets later...)
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To: Damocles
Lucky for him it was a sick black bear instead of a hungry grizzly.
26 posted on 11/17/2003 9:40:05 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Damocles

hardcore life achievement unlocked


29 posted on 11/07/2009 6:47:41 AM PST by Atfynt
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To: kanawa

Ping!


32 posted on 12/01/2010 4:19:22 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Damocles
a 3 1/2-inch knife

"You call that a knife?"


39 posted on 12/02/2010 5:55:14 AM PST by EternalVigilance (The care of human life...is the first and only legitimate object of good government -- Jefferson)
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