Posted on 09/05/2007 5:58:50 PM PDT by RDTF
HAGERSTOWN - A rabid black bear trying to rip out a window air conditioner lost its tug-of-war with a terrified housewife when her husband blasted the beast with a shotgun, the woman and a state wildlife official said today.
The bear rushed the house after Charlotte Stanton yelled out her screen door to try to scare it away from a goat pen. Stanton, 39, of rural Grantsville in Garrett County, said she was losing her tussle with the 134-pound sow when Michael Stanton pulled the trigger.
"I finally yelled at my husband, because I couldn't hold on to that air conditioner much longer," she said. "It seemed like forever, but I'm sure it was just seconds."
The load of buckshot didn't kill the bear, which lay bleeding and moaning in the yard of the Western Maryland home for about 30 minutes Aug. 29 before a state Natural Resources Police officer arrived to remove it.
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He couldn’t shoot it again and end its misery? No more shells? Weird.
what? no arrests?
yea, I thought that too.
The bear was rabid.
Does that mean it was a Democrat?
I can’t figure that out either, but perhaps with the atmosphere of legalism that hangs over everything you do he was afraid. After all the threat was over and it wasn’t open season - perhaps he was afraid of getting charged with “murdering a bear”.
Fascinating, bears wander through her yard all the time and all the husband has is one buckshot. Wonder if he keeps it in his shirt pocket?
“said she was losing her tussle with the 134-pound sow when Michael Stanton pulled the trigger.”
Uh... 134 lbs? What was this bear, 6 months old?
At close range you don’t necessarily need buckshot. Birdshot will blow a hole the size of a silver dollar in a railroad tie at close range.
I’m not so sure I’d fight with a rabid bear over an air conditioner.
Global warming induced climate change has forced the black bears to 'borrow" air conditioners for their dens. /barf
Where have you been lately, and just what have you been up to? LOL!
should’ve used slugs
“I’m not so sure I’d fight with a rabid bear over an air conditioner.”
I think she was thinking it was easier trying to hold the AC in the window then trying to fight the bear in the window.
Big hunk of metal between me and the bear works for me.
“After all the threat was over and it wasn’t open season - perhaps he was afraid of getting charged with “murdering a bear”.”
You have a point there, perhaps he’s lucky it tested for rabies. Even the special interest whackos don’t like rabies.
“Even the special interest whackos don’t like rabies.”
The gun grabbers in this state really think that us gun owners ARE rabid and would like to get rid of us.
True. A slug is a far more devastating projectile for penetration and expansion than buckshot. Save your buckshot for humans up close.
True. A slug is a far more devastating projectile for penetration and expansion than buckshot. Save your buckshot for humans up close.
Yeah, I had a friend up in the Southern Tier in NY state, he was out Pheasant hunting and noticed some tree branches moving with brush around it, he pulled the branches aside and there was a bear standing upright directly in front of him, he swung the shotgun around and fired out of reflex. It took a quarter of the top of the skull off with birdshot.
Yeah, I had a friend up in the Southern Tier in NY state, he was out Pheasant hunting and noticed some tree branches moving with brush around it, he pulled the branches aside and there was a bear standing upright directly in front of him, he swung the shotgun around and fired out of reflex. It took a quarter of the top of the skull and rear third of the nose off with birdshot. That was almost point blank with a bird barrel.
Sorry for the double post there.
I have slugs loaded in my home defense shotgun.
The problem is that gun safety and gun shooting should be properly taught in public schools.
Seems clear cut to me.
“I’m not so sure I’d fight with a rabid bear over an air conditioner.”
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Dunno bout’ that. I’m mighty attached to my Maytag...
Well, you don’t have to go for a head shot then.
ping
"It seemed like forever, but I'm sure it was just seconds."
Remember that when seconds count, the police are just minutes away.
I've shot a lot of weapons, and thousands of rounds of ammunition and didn't know this (shooting a RR tie at close range doesn't sound too safe to me). How deep does it penetrate, or does it go all the way through?
Oh Yes “shooting a RR tie at close range doesn’t sound too safe to me” and probably illegal, Shooting anything at close range is not recommended, but a shot gun with bird shot will do Extreme damage at close range, such a cut off small trees and fence posts. If you were to shoot some one at close range with a shot gun you would probably cut them in half. With a shot gun you have the choice of many types of loads from slugs to very fine shot bird loads, but at close range all possible loads are all pretty much the same, a large amount of lead in a big wad. If I remember right a load of Double ought buck is very similar to being shot with 12, 22 rifles at once. Kinda spooky, Glen
Somebody shoot Yogi?!
You have given me about 5 ideas for experiments, all involving firearms. Thank you.
Wasn’t me. I was here all weekend!
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