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Montana Wildlife Officials Kill Grizzly Suspected of Fatally Attacking Woman
Cowboy State Daily ^ | 7/9/2021 | Ellen Fike

Posted on 07/10/2021 11:13:31 AM PDT by mac_truck

Montana wildlife officials shot and killed a grizzly bear early Friday morning that was believed to have dragged a woman from her tent in Montana earlier this week and killed her.

The bear was killed less than two miles from Ovando, a Montana town of fewer than 100 people and the place the woman was killed Tuesday morning.

“Last night, the Powell County Sheriff’s Office took a report from a resident who came home and found her door ripped off and large claw marks were present,” the sheriff’s office said on Facebook Friday. “A short time later a male grizzly bear was killed in the area.”

The bear was killed after being caught raiding a chicken coop in an attack similar to one that occurred the night the woman was killed.

Given the proximity to Tuesday’s attack and the evidence found at the scene, Montana Fish, Wildlife &Parks officials believe the bear killed was the same one that attacked the woman, who was staying in a tent outside of an Ovando museum the night she was killed. However, officials said confirming DNA analysis will take a few days.

(Excerpt) Read more at cowboystatedaily.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bear; bearattack; bearattacks; grizzly; grizzlybear; montana; ovando
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1 posted on 07/10/2021 11:13:31 AM PDT by mac_truck
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To: mac_truck

I’ve tent camped in Montana twice in the last four years.....with a .357 under my head.


2 posted on 07/10/2021 11:16:04 AM PDT by G Larry (Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
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To: mac_truck

Another bear of color, assassinated by white police officers! He was just turning his life around.


3 posted on 07/10/2021 11:28:11 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: G Larry
The Pfeifer-Zeliska . 600 Nitro Express Revolver
4 posted on 07/10/2021 11:29:29 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: mac_truck

The only good bear is a dead bear. Same with commies.


5 posted on 07/10/2021 11:31:08 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
If you can't bring the weapon down to bear for a timely second shot, its not much help.

oh...and you need to be comfortable training with it, to be confident.

6 posted on 07/10/2021 11:34:12 AM PDT by G Larry (Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
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To: mac_truck

Do we need to know that?


7 posted on 07/10/2021 11:35:22 AM PDT by lewislynn ( How long before they replace Martin Luther King Blvd with George Floyd Blvd?)
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8 posted on 07/10/2021 11:36:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqgiL3CfOV8


9 posted on 07/10/2021 11:42:33 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: G Larry; Grampa Dave; Troublemaker; marktwain

A New Mexico man is sharing his story of survival after he was attacked by a bear while walking his dogs.

Bridger Petrini killed the bear while its jaw was clamped around his leg, and the jaw stayed that way for a while.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3679238/posts


10 posted on 07/10/2021 11:47:24 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: G Larry

Not to mention .600 Nitro Express isn’t exactly cheap.


11 posted on 07/10/2021 11:47:49 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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To: lewislynn
Do we need to know that?

Only if you're interested in the subject, pumpkin.

12 posted on 07/10/2021 11:55:29 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

As long as the bear gives you time to put on a motorcycle helmet and set up a bench rest, it’s perfect.


13 posted on 07/10/2021 11:56:17 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: circlecity

Helmet wasn’t necessary and a single well placed shot would do it.


14 posted on 07/10/2021 12:14:27 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: mac_truck

Humans like to kid themselves that they’re at the top of the food chain but this incident confirms that that isn’t necessarily the case in much of the US ... and this goes for both Ovando, Mt. and Chicago, Il. ... unless you are armed.


15 posted on 07/10/2021 12:23:39 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: george76
There's a FReeper here who fought off a bear attack with a knife and his dogs.

It's documented somewhere here.

Can't remember his name.

16 posted on 07/10/2021 12:34:23 PM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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To: PROCON

kawana


17 posted on 07/10/2021 12:40:31 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: eastforker

That aint right.


18 posted on 07/10/2021 12:43:48 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: eastforker

Kawana, yup. Another FReeper has the adventure on his page.


19 posted on 07/10/2021 12:45:59 PM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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To: eastforker

Kanawa

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670661/posts


20 posted on 07/10/2021 12:46:35 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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