Brown bear charges...2nd video added

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This is an older video but I just "found" it again the other day. It was originally from Cabella's web site. I am always impressed with the professionalism of the guide. The way he alerts his clients, the way he steps in between the client and the bear, the way he tries to stop the charge and finally making the shot after waiting for the bear to get within 8 yards.

IIRC he was using a rifle chambered in .404 Jeffery. I also find it interesting that the shot turned the charge, and the bear retreated some distance before expiring. It would be interesting to know where he hit the bear. Anyways, here is the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZnsL7-UdGc&feature=related
 
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A goodie, but an oldie in the sense it's been posted many times before. It is a good heads up for the newbie's though... A real wake up call for those who have never seen this sort of thing on video...

Cheers
Jay
 
Jay - I have seen it many times too, and then I stumbled on it after a year or two. I figured some of the folks haven't seen it.
 
1899 said:
Jay - I have seen it many times too, and then I stumbled on it after a year or two. I figured some of the folks haven't seen it.
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308BAR said:
Oldie but a good one never get tire watching it.
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You guys are right, a very worthwhile video! I never tire of watching it!!! Now, here's hoping I don't run into any of them this year... But, I am hitting the range on our predator defense course, just in case...

Cheers
Jay
 
I also find it interesting that the shot turned the charge, and the bear retreated some distance before expiring.
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I was just speaking today with the shooter from this video:

http://www.hunttv.com/video/latest/26

He mentioned that several times in his experience when a bear is shot at at close range it will swap ends and run even if it isn't hit (no guarantee, but very often).

I've also noticed in many of the first hand accounts i've read that the shooter who fires when the bear is close in is much more likely to be successful in avoiding attack than the one who fires while the bear is still a ways off (this only applies in cases where the bear is already charging or attacking, not where it's just showing off or not interested).

I believe that part of an effective defense is holding your fire till the bear is fairly close. Or at least saving your 'last shot' till he's close.

Still - gotta take big balls o brass i would think to hold off till that close.
 
I remember seeing some video from "Wild America" that showed a Grizz ramming itself into a station wagon..looked like it was from the 70s....does this ring a bell for anyone?
 
Buzz the video you are referring to was a red station wagon and two brothers who are scientists and biologists and they had tranquelized the bear when it work up "prematurly " rammed the side of the car and climbed up on the front hood..remember it well..

Steven
 
crazy_davey said:
If I remember correctly it was Frank and John Craighead in that video, filmed in mid to late sixties.
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I still wonder how much damage that bear would have done on a modern auto seeing he caved in that fender on that station wagon that was made with real steel back then :D

then try and explain to ICBC a bear wrote off your suv :D:D:D:D
 
Ah yes, I found an article but no video.

The Brothers Wild
Frank and John Craighead's groundbreaking study of grizzly bears helped save the carnivores from extinction. For the twins from Chevy Chase, it was just another chapter in a lifetime of adventure.

By Vicki Constantine Croke
Sunday, November 11, 2007; Page W18

IT IS THE MID-1960S -- A WARM, SUNNY DAY AT YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, where a 500-pound male grizzly bear known as No. 36 is slumped in a drug-induced haze. Even flattened by tranquilizers, the big bear dwarfs the four researchers in Western-style clothing who are racing the clock to pull every piece of data they can from him -- weighing him, taking blood samples, checking his teeth. He grows larger still when he awakens suddenly with a shattering roar. Groaning, groggy and gladiatorial, the bear rises and charges blindly at the members of the group, who scramble into their red Ford station wagon. In a dizzy rage, the bear barrels like a bristling, fanged locomotive toward the packed car, running straight into the passenger door and then heaving himself onto the hood, his head seeming to fill the entire windshield. As the animal bellows again, the car is jammed almost cartoonishly into reverse, and the big, disoriented bear slides off.

To aficionados of National Geographic documentaries, the scene is one of the most popular in the organization's ample, thrill-filled archives. It is also a small taste of the action-packed and intertwined lives of a set of identical twins and grizzly research partners, John and Frank Craighead. The brothers were dashing, handsome, intrepid, scientifically minded and athletically built, and are best known in conservation circles for their groundbreaking 12-year study of grizzlies in Yellowstone.
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bone-collector said:
I still wonder how much damage that bear would have done on a modern auto seeing he caved in that fender on that station wagon that was made with real steel back then :D

then try and explain to ICBC a bear wrote off your suv :D:D:D:D
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I have seen the damage from a pissed grizzly on a newer F250, it wasn't pretty.
 
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