Posted on 05/17/2011 8:12:04 PM PDT by decimon
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – An Alaska bear hunter who was severely mauled by a grizzly over the weekend has been flown to Seattle in critical condition, authorities said on Monday.
Nome resident Wes Perkins, 54, was listed in critical condition and in intensive care at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, a spokeswoman for the hospital said.
It was Alaska's first bear attack of 2011, officials with the state Department of Fish and Game said.
"As far as I know, this is the first significant incident of the year," said Gordy Williams, special assistant with the department.
Perkins, a former Nome fire chief, was attacked on Sunday by a large bear that he and two companions were tracking by snowmobile in a hilly area outside of Nome, the Alaska State Troopers said.
Perkins was riding in front of his companion when the bear charged him, trooper spokeswoman Megan Peters said.
The other men in the hunting party shot and killed the bear and called for help by radio, she said.
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Sorry, I never understood the point of hunting bears.
No remorse.
Trying hard to get excited about this — and failing.
Kind of like bullfighting. Some days you’re the hunter, some days you’re the hunted.
Bear 1, Hunter 0.
He and his trainer are both dead.
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I like to eat what I hunt. Bear never appealed to me.
Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you.........
Should I take up hunting then that won't be for what's a better hunter than I am.
If the animal is wounded one has the duty to track it. The good news is they are easier to track when wounded, the bad news is you will likely find it still holding a grudge.
I was thinking before I opened the link to the article that it was Obambi that went Alaska and Sarah tore him a new one.
More of a “would-be bear hunter” really.
I agree. Bears simply are not prey animals. I can see shooting bears in self defense but that's about what it would take.
waiting for the PDS group to start blaming Palin in 3....2....1
and even worse...I don’t get the concept of eating bear. Downright repugnant to me. About as nauseating as eating gorilla or chimp or dog.
Fortunately, Perkins seems to be recovering:
http://www.adn.com/2011/05/17/1867811/nome-bear-mauling-victim-recovering.html
Bears simply are not prey animals.
That is the whole point of hunting them.
These are brown bears, the most fierce
of American game animals.
it’s not Smoky the bear, Yogi etc.
Probably a fairer fight than anything
else.
I don’t hunt bears black or brown but
Grizzlys stand on their own and that
can be as much as 9 feet tall when they
rear up, with teeth and claws to match.
We snapped a couple of photos, I unhooked the snap on my holster, and we quickly made our way back to the truck, taking care to keep a close eye out for Yogi.
Only a fool goes out looking for trouble with a bear. Even black bears, like the ones we have here in Kentucky, are nothing that anyone in their right mind wants to mess with.
Last June, one of my sister's coworkers was hiking in Red River Gorge with her husband and son. The husband got about one hundred yards ahead of them and encountered a male black bear out looking for a mate. The bear charged, clawed him on the arm, and then clamped its jaws around his thigh. Fortunately there were other hikers nearby who managed to knock the bear off him and chase it away.
This is the photo he took with his cell phone just seconds before Yogi charged.
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