Quick thinking saved pal from grizzly
- Thread starter Fall Guy
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A head shot was a good choice but under the stress of the moment would have been very difficult to pull off; an angel on the shoulder sort of thing. Nothing but a head shot, spine shot, or breaking a hip is going to stop a bear that is fully committed.
I hope the youngster got the message, if you are going to carry a rifle, carry it loaded.
I hope the youngster got the message, if you are going to carry a rifle, carry it loaded.
MusicianShooter
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If you need your gun, you need it now.
I guess I'm not the only one that is taking in all the variables on this one. It's tough to get past the scoped rifle. Kids may have trouble passing the horseshoes I guess. I know of one professional guide/trapper that pulled off a similar situation. He was guiding two hunters that gut shot a sleeping grizzly, though he was well experienced and saw it all unfold from the first shot.
TERMINATOR101CA
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Who says FA is not needed for hunting..........they need to be faced with a charging grizzly and have to load a musket to see if that will change their mind.
You need a wilderness ATC for that. Good luck.
Alternatively, perhaps a Rossi Ranch Hand Mares Leg with corresponding leg holster -- although
a) its probably a bit small for bears, and
b) a lot of bears do false charges or are harmless or are more scared of us than we are of them (or as Rick Mercer said "they're not agressive except for the agressive ones")
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punkrockboy
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I guess if the treehuggers keep telling the lie, it eventually starts to sound like the truth.
CanadianReich
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David Suzuki is awesome and so is his dad's religion- nature worship.
Hes been one of my idols from ...oh...the age 12 or so.
Ive no idea where he stands on firearms but being as close to natives and nature as he is id think hes no anti if i had to guess.
CanadianReich
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on endangered status:
Some debate on if its "at risk" or "endangered" etc, either way I wouldn't be out hunting them for food if there aren't many of them.
They charge you blow them away and eat their meat/ wear their fur...bet that would be one warm bear-fur jacket.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_bear
In Glacier National Park in Montana and Banff National Park in Alberta, grizzlies are regularly killed by trains as the bears scavenge for grain that has leaked from poorly maintained grain cars. Road kills on park roads are another problem. The primary limiting factors for grizzly bears in Alberta and elsewhere are human-caused mortality, unmitigated road access, and habitat loss, alienation, and fragmentation. In the Central Rocky Mountains Ecosystem, most bears have died within a few hundred meters of roads and trails.[43]
On 22 March 2007, the U.S. government stated grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park (Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem) no longer need Endangered Species Act protection. Several environmental organizations, including the NRDC, have since brought a lawsuit against the federal government to relist the grizzly bear. On 22 September 2009, U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy reinstated the grizzlies' protected status due to the decline of whitebark pine tree, whose nuts are a main source of food for the bears.[40]
Farther north, in Alberta, Canada, intense DNA hair-snagging studies on 2000 showed the grizzly population to be increasing faster than what it was formerly believed to be, and Alberta Sustainable Resource Development calculated a population of 841 bears.[43] In 2002, the Endangered Species Conservation Committee recommended that the Alberta grizzly bear population be designated as threatened due to recent estimates of grizzly bear mortality rates that indicated the population was in decline. A recovery plan released by the Provincial government in March 2008 indicated the grizzly population is lower than previously believed.[44] The Provincial government has so far resisted efforts to designate its declining population of about 700 grizzlies (previously estimated at as high as 842) as endangered.
Environment Canada consider the grizzly bear to a "special concern" species, as it is particularly sensitive to human activities and natural threats. In Alberta and British Columbia, the species is considered to be at risk.[45]
Recently, the International Union for Conservation of Nature moved the grizzly bear to "Lower Risk Least Concern" status on the IUCN Red List.[46][47]
The Mexican grizzly bear (Ursus arctos nelsoni) is extinct.[48
Some debate on if its "at risk" or "endangered" etc, either way I wouldn't be out hunting them for food if there aren't many of them.
They charge you blow them away and eat their meat/ wear their fur...bet that would be one warm bear-fur jacket.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_bear
In Glacier National Park in Montana and Banff National Park in Alberta, grizzlies are regularly killed by trains as the bears scavenge for grain that has leaked from poorly maintained grain cars. Road kills on park roads are another problem. The primary limiting factors for grizzly bears in Alberta and elsewhere are human-caused mortality, unmitigated road access, and habitat loss, alienation, and fragmentation. In the Central Rocky Mountains Ecosystem, most bears have died within a few hundred meters of roads and trails.[43]
On 22 March 2007, the U.S. government stated grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park (Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem) no longer need Endangered Species Act protection. Several environmental organizations, including the NRDC, have since brought a lawsuit against the federal government to relist the grizzly bear. On 22 September 2009, U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy reinstated the grizzlies' protected status due to the decline of whitebark pine tree, whose nuts are a main source of food for the bears.[40]
Farther north, in Alberta, Canada, intense DNA hair-snagging studies on 2000 showed the grizzly population to be increasing faster than what it was formerly believed to be, and Alberta Sustainable Resource Development calculated a population of 841 bears.[43] In 2002, the Endangered Species Conservation Committee recommended that the Alberta grizzly bear population be designated as threatened due to recent estimates of grizzly bear mortality rates that indicated the population was in decline. A recovery plan released by the Provincial government in March 2008 indicated the grizzly population is lower than previously believed.[44] The Provincial government has so far resisted efforts to designate its declining population of about 700 grizzlies (previously estimated at as high as 842) as endangered.
Environment Canada consider the grizzly bear to a "special concern" species, as it is particularly sensitive to human activities and natural threats. In Alberta and British Columbia, the species is considered to be at risk.[45]
Recently, the International Union for Conservation of Nature moved the grizzly bear to "Lower Risk Least Concern" status on the IUCN Red List.[46][47]
The Mexican grizzly bear (Ursus arctos nelsoni) is extinct.[48
Canadianreich, living in the middle of the grizzly natural range will give you a different idea about what is really an endangered specy ....
there is more grizzly in BC now that at the beginning of the 20th century and with the help of your idol there is less people that can hunt them so they re less afraid of humane ... hunt them for a decade and you ll see their fear coming back ....
there is more grizzly in BC now that at the beginning of the 20th century and with the help of your idol there is less people that can hunt them so they re less afraid of humane ... hunt them for a decade and you ll see their fear coming back ....
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troutseeker
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Why is it "always a concern a grizzly getting shot"??? Damn thing got what was coming to him!
