MT: Fed Bears, Dead Bears; and Dead Woman

Gun Watch ^ | 9 October, 2015 | Dean Weingarten

[Ditter]

My sis in law has a summer place in Montana. She is out in the country near the Mission Mountains. She sends bear pictures regularly. She is in a grizzly bear preserve controlled by the tribe. They trapped a momma griz and 2 babies on her property. Yikes, I would not like that!

I live in the middle of Houston and we have rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, possums, armadillos, skunks and coyotes in our yard from time to time. That's enough for me, where are you?

[Malsua]

What part of New Jersey has bears?

While they are everywhere in the state, NW NJ is thick with them. We see them routinely in the yard and there is typically a least one bear "break in" every year in my town.

Like this guy in my yard:

Here's a couple vids earlier this year.

Bear Nosing around

Big bear raids can"

[Ditter]

I would have a bear proof fence!!!

[Ditter]

I would have a bear proof fence!!!

[Malsua]

I would have a bear proof fence!!!

That's pretty much impossible. They can climb anything. Any fence that might have a chance to stop them would not be permissible. 10 foot + razor wire might work :)

Besides, you just take precautions and secure your food/garbage and put bars on windows that make for easy access. Had a bear almost get in through our kitchen window one night. Wife ran it off with a bat. Bars are on that window now :)

[Ditter]

How about an electric wire running along the top of the fence? That works for lots of animals.

[Malsua]

Electric fences are allowed but generally only to keep livestock in or to protect livestock(chicken coupes, rabbit hutches, etc.). Surrounding your whole property with a fence would require some tricky legal navigating. There are a ton of state rules about electric fencing.

[hattend]

When they become dependent on taking food from people, they lose all respect for people and become an active danger. It is not much of a step, from becoming dependent on handouts, to taking what is not offered.

Ursine Gibsmedats

[wintertime]

‘...almost any gun could have been used to stop this attack,...”
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Is this true. I have read here on Free Republic that it takes a large caliber gun to stop a determined bear.

[Ditter]

I am just glad I don’t live in bear country. I have been on 5 or 6 bear hunts with my husband, both in the US and Canada, so I have seen plenty of bears in the wild.

Of course we were prepared for it but I would not like for them to be wandering around my neighborhood.

[Zippo44]

“I know there were bears in Texas in the past but I haven’t heard of a bear sighting in my lifetime.”

They sometimes get black bears in Big Bend National Park.

[Ditter]

Big Bend, that doesn’t surprise me. It is wild mountainous country.

[5th MEB]

Middle of the Trinity Alps in Trinity County, Ca.
No Griz in California since about 1850, but I have black bear and mountain lion thicker than mice in the corn crib.
Lady down in Weaverville found a lion chowing down on her little dog in her garage not to long ago, found another one just last week along Hwy 3, splattered by a logging truck probably.
No coyotes left in my area since the drought started 4 years ago, the mountain lions ate them all.
I have 7 dogs (none of them small) and even so, I never leave them out at night unless I am with them.
I am a firm believer in the fact that “When Gunpowder Speaks The Wildlife Listens”.
I don’t work any where around the farm without being armed with something heavy enough to do the job if necessary. Remington 12 gauge with slugs, Browning 338, Ruger Black Hawk 45 Long Colt.
I am pretty sure that it won’t be the first or last time I come around the corner of the barn, pump house, or workshop and find some large, hungry, four footed critter looking for an easy meal.