Black Bears can be Dangerous!!

SH, due to my respect for your experiences/writings and not wanting to lose that respect for you, I am putting a stop to my part in these negative posts by apologizing for my behaviour and comments that I made against you in an earlier post.

I have now obviously removed your buddy from my ignore list and as I stated above will no longer lower myself and feed him by responding to his drivel.

I am truely sorry to see your good name being dragged down by his rantings and his reputation on the internet.

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Camp Cook said:
SH, due to my respect for your experiences/writings and not wanting to lose that respect for you, I am putting a stop to my part in these negative posts by apologizing for my behaviour and comments that I made against you in an earlier post.

I have now obviously removed your buddy from my ignore list and as I stated above will no longer lower myself and feed him by responding to his drivel.

I am truely sorry to see your good name being dragged down by his rantings and his reputation on the internet.

CC
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I never intended for anything to be personal....I was just commenting on some photos and a video based on my experiences. It seems that most bear encounters are the victim of some and usually extensive exaggereation and unfortunately, it really doesn't do much to help those with little bear experience understand these unique creatures. The vast majority of bear encounters are nothing more that than that, an encounter. Sure, bears can be dangerous but the more time you spend with them, the more you learn to read them and the less intimidating they are. I truly have no idea what's going on with you and Omega and frankly don't care. I'm one man and I offered one man's opinion. Anyhow, glad to hear we can get back on track..........
 
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Wow SH that could be taken as a shot I'll take it that you are above that kind of thing though. :D

I'll let you in on a little secret...

Your buddy was set up and as any good fisherman would do he was fed a little line...

There are many on the sites that he visits that are fed up with his unprofessional behaviours to people with less experience than himself.

Doesn't feel very nice to be criticized does it... ;)

May I make a suggestion to anyone that is experienced especially the professionals that they try and help rather than push those that are less experienced than them away from this sport.
 
Camp Cook said:
Wow SH that could be taken as a shot I'll take it that you are above that kind of thing though. :D

I'll let you in on a little secret...

Your buddy was set up and as any good fisherman would do he was fed a little line...

There are many on the sites that he visits that are fed up with his unprofessional behaviours to people with less experience than himself.

Doesn't feel very nice to be criticized does it... ;)

May I make a suggestion to anyone that is experienced especially the professionals that they try and help rather than push those that are less experienced than them away from this sport.
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As I said above....don't know and don't care....no shot intended, just passing along an observation. I'm happy to discuss bears with you but not interested in your tiffs with other board members.
 
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*snicker* Ahhh did the embarassment of looking foolish get to you? Still laughing at your overt fear of a grazing bear, here and by the replies in my Inbox I ain't alone!!!
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Nope, it ain't over not done by a long shot. The time where I was willing to let bygones be bygones are long past
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You are indeed done. Reading back you've been very insulting, and that'll be an end to that.

Seeing as camp has already appologized for his role in it, i'll leave it there. But one single more mouth off and you'll find out we take our rules pretty seriously.

Hope we're clear.
 
And for that matter - all three of you can check your inboxes.

I assume that closes this matter permanently, and there'll be no more such foolishness.
 
Bob7.62 said:
I got a bear story to share . about 3 week ago I was at work at a crushing plant in Coquitlam BC. i was coming down the stairs of the plant when I saw this bear at the garbage barrel 15ft away from me. He was small, he stood about mid thigh on me anyway I tried to scare him off by yelling and raising my arms and waving. He then stopped what he was doing and came running straight at me well I stood there and when he got close I booted him as hard as I could in the jaw (good thing I was wearing my steel toed boots) after that he ran away. It seemed like right thing to do at the time. Now if he had been any larger than he was I wouldn't have tried to scare him off I would have backed slowly up the stairs. The thing is when he came running at it kinda reminded me of a dog whose happy to see you and he's coming to get a snack. I mean that he wasn't growing and his mouth was closed. Maybe someone been feeding him
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BOB! Watch out for that bear. Seriously.

I did a cougar and bear awareness course through the Fraser Valley Regional District and they had a bit about predatory black bears. They are rare. But there are black bears that will go after a human, as prey. When they come at you with no growling or anything, thats them coming for you as opposed to trying to scare you away.

Maybe you taught it to stay the hell away from humans with the work boot. But maybe not. I'd make sure I dont get cornered by that one.

You might consider talking to the conservation officer for that area.
 
When they come at you with no growling
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I thought we all agreed that only Walt Disney bears growl and only taxidermy bears snarl. On another note, I did get charged by an irrate ruffed grouse yesterday protecting her clutch....now she made some hissing and whinning noises I've never heard come out of a bird. It was pretty cool actually and she gave me more of fright than the bear we saw!
 
I did get charged by an irrate ruffed grouse yesterday protecting her clutch
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Who was it had that great story about their buddy in camp who got stuck in the loo with a grouse and screamed like a girl, and all the guys thought he must be getting eaten by a bear and came out guns at the ready to defend him against this rouge grouse? God - that was hilarious!! :)
 
There has been a lot of good material in these posts, too bad to drop them now! In one post Foxer said this: (About bears)

We didn't even really think they were edible when i was growing up hunting - we thought they were just hunted for trophy.

I still don't think they are fit to eat! Bear meat is loaded with the little beasties that results in trichinosis, if they are injested without being thoroughly cooked. Ground bear meat has been tested and found to contain several hundred of the "worms" that give trichinosis.
Old timers will remember when commercial pork was apt to have them in it. Only the ones in bears are worse. The ones in pork would be killed by freezing, but trichinelli in bears is not harmed by freezing. You people that like bear meat, just go ahead and eat it, but I can not eat anything while knowing if some part of it did not receive enough heat in cooking, I could contract a fatal disease.
Making it compulsory to bring the bear meat home was just a ploy by leftie pressure groups, to help keep bears from being shot.
I have hunted in BC since 1946. I would guess there are several times more bears in the bush now, than there were back then. I spent a lot of time in the bush in those early years and I may go an entire year and not see a bear.
They were looked on as predators and if we saw one we may just eliminate him!
 
H4831 said:
There has been a lot of good material in these posts, too bad to drop them now! In one post Foxer said this: (About bears)

We didn't even really think they were edible when i was growing up hunting - we thought they were just hunted for trophy.

I still don't think they are fit to eat! Bear meat is loaded with the little beasties that results in trichinosis, if they are injested without being thoroughly cooked. Ground bear meat has been tested and found to contain several hundred of the "worms" that give trichinosis.
Old timers will remember when commercial pork was apt to have them in it. Only the ones in bears are worse. The ones in pork would be killed by freezing, but trichinelli in bears is not harmed by freezing. You people that like bear meat, just go ahead and eat it, but I can not eat anything while knowing if some part of it did not receive enough heat in cooking, I could contract a fatal disease.
Making it compulsory to bring the bear meat home was just a ploy by leftie pressure groups, to help keep bears from being shot.
I have hunted in BC since 1946. I would guess there are several times more bears in the bush now, than there were back then. I spent a lot of time in the bush in those early years and I may go an entire year and not see a bear.
They were looked on as predators and if we saw one we may just eliminate him!
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Over here in AB we don't have a law making the use of the meat mandatory. Does that make us an advanced civilization? :D I'm OK with that. I tried the meat when I was younger, spring bear, fall bear, young or old the meat was greasy, coarse and unbelievably gamy.
 
Omega said:

Over here in AB we don't have a law making the use of the meat mandatory. Does that make us an advanced civilization? I'm OK with that. I tried the meat when I was younger, spring bear, fall bear, young or old the meat was greasy, coarse and unbelievably gamy.

I don't know about an advanced civilization, but it is a much more sensible rule. If a person wants to shoot a bear for the hide, it makes no sense to force them to take home meat that many of us don't consider fit for human consumpion.
The only thing that really matters is that the hunter cancel his tag, if he shoots a bear.
Your opinion of the taste of the meat will not be questioned by me.
 
H4831 it is great to see how professional you present yourself in this discussion.

I do not eat bear meat either this is not only due to the trichinosis problem but also due to the digestive system design of bears, any impurities they ingests into their bodies are absorbed into their meat and when we eat it we also get those impurities absorbed into our systems.

Bear fat is also one of the hardest things for our digestive systems to digest.
 
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