I would have got my 12 gauge and shot the bear until dead. Not because I care about the deer and not because I care that the bear caught a deer. But because if that bear isn’t afraid enough of me or my house and would attack a deer in my backyard then he’s probably not going to feel to bad about attacking me, my wife or any other member of my family.
Yes.
Oooh, right, I missed that, the bear thinks your back yard is its hunting ground... BOOM, kill that bear.
Smart answer. You win.
I was about to say the same thing
It’s just nature, but it’s nature too close to residences.
What would it have attacked if that dear was not around.
That makes a lot of sense to me.
I am not a gun person and I am curious if the deer would die too if a shot gun is used?
“I would have got my 12 gauge and shot the bear until dead. Not because I care about the deer and not because I care that the bear caught a deer. But because if that bear isn’t afraid enough of me or my house and would attack a deer in my backyard then he’s probably not going to feel to bad about attacking me, my wife or any other member of my family.”
I was going to say “He’s a bear, he has a right to kill deer and I certainly have no legal standing to shoot him.” Your response is logical, but I can’t see how it’s legal. Legally, you can’t shoot him for being in your yard, knocking over your garbage can or even attacking your pets. If you went out and tried to drive him off the kill, it seems to me there would be a good chance he would go for you and then you could legally shoot him but then you would have to explain why you were out there bothering him in the first place. Since he killed that deer without breaking any laws does that make the deer his property?
Ding freakin’ ding! 45-70 government would do nicely.
I would have got my 12 gauge and shot the bear until dead. Not because I care about the deer and not because I care that the bear caught a deer. But because if that bear isn’t afraid enough of me or my house and would attack a deer in my backyard then he’s probably not going to feel to bad about attacking me, my wife or any other member of my family.
That’s right.
+1
Although I would use my suppressed .308 and shoot, shovel, and shut up.
Same here. That picture looks to me like a typical backyard in standard-issue suburbia, not some remote wilderness area up in the mountains. That means there are many other homes and families around, and letting wild bears freely run around that kind of neighborhood is stupid and dangerous.
Absolutely correct.
Seven posts to get a rational response.
I’d shoot em both for trespassing, and imminent danger they pose, (Deer carry ticks which carry lime disease- bears are, well, bears) and make a delicious stew out of them and invite family over for a feast-
If dinner wants to run right into my back yard and present itself like that, who am I to look the other way?
That was my first thought too...shouldn’t be in the yard at all. First a deer, next it is a “dear”.
Well said.