The reverse is also true. The bears occupy our natural habitat and feeding ground.
Bear meat in a vending machine in Japan:
Posted on 06/22/2023 5:30:50 AM PDT by marktwain
On June 16, near Groom Creek, in Arizona, 66-year-old Steven Jackson was sitting on his camp chair, having coffee at an outdoor table, when a 300 lb male black bear attacked him. The attack appears to have been unprovoked and predatory in nature. Groom Creek is a few miles South of Prescott, about 100 miles north of Phoenix, at about 5000 – 6000 feet above sea level. The temperature on the morning of the 16th was 70 degrees Fahrenheit. From Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office:
At approximately 7:50 this morning, the YCSO dispatch center received multiple 911 calls about a man who was being mauled by a bear in the Groom Creek Area. When YCSO deputies and Prescott PD arrived at the scene, which was in a heavily wooded remote area, they found Steven Jackson, 66 years old of Tucson dead of an apparent bear attack, and the bear dead nearby. Deputies called officials from Arizona Game and Fish to respond to the scene as well.From multiple witness accounts and preliminary investigation of the scene, Mr. Jackson had been sitting having coffee at a table on his property where he was building a home. It appears that a male black bear attacked Mr. Jackson, taking him unaware, and dragged him approximately 75 feet down an embankment.Neighbors who heard the victim screaming tried to intervene through shouts and car horns, but the bear did not let go of Mr. Jackson until one neighbor was able to retrieve his rifle and shoot the bear to get him to disengage. Unfortunately, by that time Mr. Jackson has succumbed to his horrible injuries.
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I was in the same area gold prospecting a few days earlier. Beautiful rugged country. I should have carried a handgun
Thought it said “Stopped With A Bible”.
I was in the same area gold prospecting a few days earlier. Beautiful rugged country. I should have carried a handgun
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Right?
I know the northern high country in Arizona is very different than Phoenix, but still I tend to think of scorpions, not bears. At least wild cats maybe.
I knew a guy who was stationed at Elmendorf. He said when they took hikes, they carried 44 magnums, to deal with the bears.
‘unprovoked attack ‘. The human was occupying the Bear’s natural habitat and feeding ground. That is a provocation. Another laughable ‘self-defense ‘ propaganda article by Ammoland, why am I not surprised?
I am glad that most bears in VA don’t to grow to 300#.
Don’t forget the best bear/knife story of the Century with Freeper Kanawa stabbing a black bear to death.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670661/posts
unprovoked attack ‘. The human was occupying the Bear’s natural habitat and feeding ground. That is a provocation. Another laughable ‘self-defense ‘ propaganda article by Ammoland, why am I not surprised?
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So somebody in his position should go into the woods unarmed and fully willing to be eaten?
Not bullets?.................
How about, unfortunately the Man had to put down the animal to save his own life? Instead we get the valiant prince slayed the evil dragon in the woods story.
I will argue the attacked smelled of some food the attacker desired. The carried food was the reason for the attack, not the limbs and flesh of the attacked
How about, unfortunately the Man had to put down the animal to save his own life? Instead we get the valiant prince slayed the evil dragon in the woods story.
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Nobody from AmmoLand maintained that the that the bear was morally culpable. I’m sure they know that it was just acting like a bear. Which is why you need to go into bear country armed even when you are not hunting.
Four weeks ago, at 5am, we woke up to the noise of yet another bear getting into our hummingbird feeder on the back deck of our Colorado mountain house. This time, the bear was HUGE! He had to have weighed over 700lbs and stood over seven feet tall from toes to snout. They usually are not that big up here. I don’t know what I’d do, other than pee my pants, if I ran into that guy on my way to the chicken coop.
Actually he attempted to save the life of another person. Unfortunately the bear drug its victim down an embankment. By the time they got to the guy he was dead.
I know, I know, the man should have used KobraKai Kungfooie to subdue the bear. Held till the wardens came and then turned him over to them. Ok, right.
I would never go out in any wooded or wilderness area, without my Kimber 1911 .45 ACP, Colt Trooper MkIII .357mag and my Alexander Arms AR-50 Beowulf w/ 425gr FMJs.
Same here. In GA they average 125-150 lbs. But we get some big ones too. we have one that occasionally traverses our rural property that the neighbor over the ridge says is large. We don’t walk around after dark.
The reverse is also true. The bears occupy our natural habitat and feeding ground.
Bear meat in a vending machine in Japan:
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