North Vancouver Island Grizzly Bear Encounter.

Grove

Glad you are still around..:runaway:

40 ft away, moving towards you and roaring? That's well inside anybodies "comfort zone"

Well done in getting your weapon into action, especially in your "fuzzy" state:D
 
It was obviously a sasquatch you encountered. The reason he didn't atack you was because he was full of potatoes!
 
Grove said:
Ok to everyone on Vancouver Island, if ya don't already, keep a bloody HIGH powered firearm in your vehicle at all times.

Here's what I have to say about my grizzly bear encounter.

Nov 30th/Dec 1st 2008.

On vacation up in Port McNeil for a little bit, my buddy an I both shoot so we go out into the logging roads to fire off some rounds.

In the first 3km's in I see two grizzly bears bout 200 yards off the road from me an just keep driving.

Find a good spot bout 12-13 km's along the logging roads a few km's from Nimpkish Lake and setup camp for the night, we arrived around 6pm.

Few hundred rounds later an we made dinner, simple hot dogs over the fire an burnt all the remains/packaging/ect from them, so out comes the Whisky. 3 bottles of fireball later we're having great time shootin EDIT, Shootin the s**t between the two of us.

It's about 3am an we are getting ready to call it a night, we suddenly hear bushes an branches being crushed an pushed around maybe 60 feet from us an it's closing in fast.

At 40 feet the bushes part an you come into the clearing we are in, all I see is a f**king huge grizzly bear, it stood I can only guess was nearly 5-6 feet tall on all four legs charging at my best friend an I an its roaring at the top of its lungs coming in for the kill.

At this point both of us are still sitting right beside our fire, I grabbed my Grizzly 12.5" shotgun loaded with 3" slugs cause I know I'm in bear country an raised it to my side.

I just started firing not knowing if I'm hitting the bear or not an prepared to get mauled to death, when my 5 shots ran out I just stared straight forward looking for anything moving an couldn't see the bear anymore.

My best friend an I then jumped to our feet an ran the 15 feet to my jeep an grabbed my sks rifles, loaded them an started firing in the direction the bear came from.

We still cannot hear anything at all let alone each other cause we have no hearing protection on. When the rifles shot their 5 rounds off we set the jeeps alarm off an started yelling to make more noise as we reloaded the rifles.

We waited for the deafening ringing in our ears to fade an just listened for anything else moving in the bushes with rifles in hand, did not hear anything so we quickly put our fire out an kicked mud an dirt over the embers an got the f**k outta there in a matter of minutes.

My buddy drank very little so I had him drive my jeep an we got the hell out of those logging roads real fast an we've stayed out of the bushes since.

Let that be a good lesson to everyone to be aware of who's backyard your in and to go prepared for anything.

Staring death in it's big brown eyes as it charges at you is the scariest god damn thing in the world an I can only thank myself that I reacted the right way an started firing instead of freezing up and both of us getting mauled to death.

To all you CGN'ers watch your back when your out an about an take care, Matt aka Grove.
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Shooting at nothing but darkness at night loaded on whiskey. You both open up with an sks and still hit nothing???Then reload and hit nothing again???
Was there anyone else walking around there? That close you should have been able to hit the "bear" at least twice out of five shots.
I doubt there was any "bear" at all.
You didn't by chance eat any mushrooms with those weinees did you???
 
Noone could have been in the bushes we fired on, super dense forest an a steep rising hill.

I fired 5 rounds from my shotgun, retreated to our rifles an each fired 5 rounds exactly where the bear ran off into the bushes, we then reloaded our rifles in case the bear came back.
 
Grove said:
In the first 3km's in I see two grizzly bears bout 200 yards off the road from me an just keep driving.
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At 40 feet the bushes part an you come into the clearing we are in, all I see is a f**king huge grizzly bear, it stood I can only guess was nearly 5-6 feet tall on all four legs charging at my best friend an I an its roaring at the top of its lungs coming in for the kill.
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So if I understand correctly, you saw 3 different Grizzlies on one evening on VI? Out of the thousands of avid outdoorsmen and workers spending countless hours in the forests, very few have seen a Grizzly here, so aren't you lucky.;)

This was no black or brown bear, I've seen lots of black bears on the mainland an brown bears here an there too, this was for sure a grizzly.
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And the difference between a Brown bear and a Grizzly is?
 
Sounds like a good cover story for shooting at game at night,good that you posted it for all the anti's to read.
The headline will read...drunk hillbillies blast up the night....again. Sign here to ban guns. PM Dion
 
I used to wonder why they called this group "gun nuts."
Just look at what he wrote.
Black dark at night, no moon, but at 60 feet they see it come out of the bush, then at forty feet they see a grizzly standing five or six feet tall on all fours, "with his eyes fixed on me!"
That couldn't possibly have happened as told. It's doubtful they could have distinguished something as being an animal at six feet.
Here is what probably happened. A huge drinking bout going on all night and at three in the morning they hear some noise in the bush, grab their guns and start shooting. Then make up a story to go with it.
In the meantime, all this effort by so many people on these threads, trying to depict shooters as responsible people with their guns, has just gone down the tube.
 
Every time I hear about Vancouver Island Grizz stories, I get p'd off.

The only question I got "wrong" on my Core test was: Are there Grizzlies on Vancouver island?" I said yes... and the exam says no. They need to update!
 
Did you ever go back to look for any sign of hitting it? Now I understand that I have never faced a Grizzly Bear in the wild but I would have been back in the mourning armed to the teeth with my buddy to look for blood or tracks or something.
 
popcan said:
Every time I hear about Vancouver Island Grizz stories, I get p'd off.

The only question I got "wrong" on my Core test was: Are there Grizzlies on Vancouver island?" I said yes... and the exam says no. They need to update!
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One was shot near an indian village as I recall; it was becoming a nuisance bear. I also think that at least one more and perhaps two more have been shot in the last year or so. All at the north end of the island. I think the first one may have made the tv news; I definitely remember seeing reports about the incident.

cheers mooncoon
 
They changed the CORE test so that the answer is now YES! there are grizz on Van Island.

And geez, take it easy on the guy... Yes some of the things he were doing were irresponsible, but we can't all say that after all the hunting is done for the day that we don't sit around the fire and hit the wobbly pops?
 
mooncoon said:
One was shot near an indian village as I recall; it was becoming a nuisance bear. I also think that at least one more and perhaps two more have been shot in the last year or so. All at the north end of the island. I think the first one may have made the tv news; I definitely remember seeing reports about the incident.

cheers mooncoon
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That indian reserve is called Fort Rupert. Just a couple months ago one was spotted in the Nimpkish Valley. They are here and they have been for a longtime, its only just recently when we started logging in their "turf" that they are being seen. I deliver wholesale goods on the Fort Rupert reserve and have listened to a few elders that have told me how long the Grizzly Bear has been on this island for. Even shocked me.
I believe Grove to a point but 3 bottles of Fireball and no moon makes for a good "i caught a fish this big" story :p
 
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