Posted on 08/20/2019 7:39:03 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
They came face-to-face with a bear while they were on a sofa watching TV, but a deputy came to their rescue.
"And I said my mom would not be aggressively opening Tupperware at 12:30 in the morning,” Hayes Sherman said.
The trespasser helped itself to some taco meat and chowed down in the living room.
The 15-year-old boys vacationing from San Francisco said they were nearly frozen in fear.
“It looks us both in the eyes, and it started coming towards us, and that was one of the scariest moments, coming face-to-face with the bear,”
“The bear was shaking the door and we had to hold it shut,”
“So I racked my shotgun, which I’d already loaded with a bear round, and I just hit him with a bear round on the backside and he shoo’d, took off out of the neighborhood,”
“I think people underestimate how smart bears are. Bears absolutely can open doors, doors to residences, car doors,”
It’s something these two learned the hard way.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktuu.com ...
I saw a black bear in a culvert trap in Yellowstone’s Canyon village years ago. The rangers trapped him with barbecued spare ribs. Gary Larsen had a bunch of Far Side bear cartoons. One of my favorites was the “Grizzlies from Hell” cartoon.
the John Candy movie was The Great Outdoors with Dan Akroid...great movie as was Uncle Buck.
Wife’s Son from previous Marriage is a Deputy Game and Fish Officer in PA and has had to catch a few in the Burbs that were in trees or backyards. Most are Drug Darted and loaded into a Barrel Trap and transported back the WILD before they wake up and left in the trap with the door open.
The big ones just make Me think Bear Rug...
"Smarter than the average bear!"
Folks don’t seem to understand how dangerous a black bear can be. That and there are more of them around. The one in the trap in Yellowstone wasn’t huge but he was severely PO’d. The advent of more grizzlies here in the Yellowstone area has added new meaning to walking back to camp covered in deer or elk blood from a field dressing exercise.
Bait on the Hoof ?
Evolution in action...
Remember to shoot the guy your with in the foot. You can’t outrun a bear, you just have to outrun the guy your with to the truck.
“I would think a bear round would be a 12 gauge sabot slug.”
Dosn’t anyony use rock salt loads any more to drive criders off?
“I would think a bear round would be a 12 gauge sabot slug.”
Dosn’t anyony use rock salt loads any more to drive criders off?
Back in the day when it was kids stealing your watermelons - rock salt might have been good. Kids today stealing your whatever, or black bears - rock salt would be foolish.
If you’re a gambling person I suppose you could load the first round with salt and the second with buckshot (humans) or a slug (bears). I prefer to have it loaded with the heavy stuff right from the beginning.
I was somewhat surprised that the young female deputy was so overweight. They don’t have weight standards for that kind of deputy? It didn’t really matter, as she pretty much saved the day with her shotgun.
‘Aggressively opening Tupperware at 12.30 in the morning.”
Nifty line. The boy has a good vocabulary.
My thought too. First 2 slugs then 00 for 2, then alternate till empty. Bears are fine long as you don’t have to hug them. I’m not keen on rubber bullets either, might just piss it off.
More likely the John Candy movie "The Great Outdoors".
Have you considered little bells and pepper spray? I'm told that is very effective. </lol>
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