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Having a picture from the previous coop raid will establish that this was a repeat problem with the bear, and green light the dispatch if you provide the local LE/Game department.
A neighbor had a cougar problem and they gave him a clear to fire for 6 months after the incident. John |
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The "3S" rule comes into play!!! "Shoot! Shovel! And Shut Up"!!
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Cover a full can of starting fluid/ether with bacon grease. Guaranteed he will never come back after his first "bite". Very effective and you don't have to kill the old boy. It's early in the year and after just coming out of hibernation bears are ravenous and do things they normally wouldn't. Give this a try before you whack him.........
Aaron
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Got ahold of fish and wildlife this afternoon. They will be here in the morning. Even they said he would be back tonight. I cannot shoot him. Coyotes, Fox, Possum, Raccoon, anything but Bear. Our Bear season boundries are about 20 miles north of me. Maybe a few calls like mine and they will move the boundry down lol.
Chickens can be replaced. But Grandbaby's not so much. I will take your advise Larry and switch up to the Marlin 35Rem Gonna be a long night. |
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I agree - sometimes one has to take care of his own livestock problems.
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Up here, me and my partner in the control business, Dave, used to shoot 2-300 bear a year each cleaning them out of bee hives, oat fields, farm yards, livestock pens, horse pastures, oilfield camps, all on private land. It kind of colours your appreciation for Yogi when you see just how much devastation and damage they can do. When you see 30 bears in one 1/4 section of oats, or shoot 15 out of one set of hives over one 10 hour stretch, there are just too damn many bears. Once they get haituated to easy pickins there is no dissuading them. Each guy to their own view and conscience and I respect the choice each person makes. That said, there is a reason why we don't need permission from the fish cops, licneses or seasons to shoot Bear on private land up here. |
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I'm gonna do a re-post of a thread I started once and a re-post of the pictures that went with it.
Here's the first post of the thread and it'll take two. A friend I use to work with called me to come over to look at a car attacked by a bear....from inside the car !! Seems the owner of this near new Civic was camping and left some food in the car, "Oh ye the uninformed ". Unfortunately for him he also left the door ajar just enough for the bear to get his claws in the crack and yank the door open to get entrance to where the grub was. Sounds awful huh? It gets worse, "MUCH" worse. The bear gets into the car and in doing whatever it is that bears do in nearly new Honda's the door slams shut behind him....not good....not good at all!! The bear as you might imagine goes Ape Squat cause he's locked in a car and he can't even drive! Unfortunately all I had was my cell phone camera but you get the idea. Here's the drivers door panel. Here's the side curtain air bag looking into the drivers side. This'll take a couple posts.
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"(Here's the second post it took to get the pictures.)"
Here's a better picture of the drivers seat which seemed to catch a lot of his wrath. Here's from the other side, note the A-pillar, headliner and the dangling side curtain air bag. Left side of the back seat bent up at a crazy angle. One more from the right side. Sushi anyone? My little phone camera really can't capture the degree of carnage inside that Civic. I Can say it was real amusing when I brought my dog over and let him sniff inside the car, talk about going "Ape Squat"!!! I guess that pretty much covers leaving food in your car in bear country. P.S. My buddy said to tell everyone he'd make em a heck of a deal on a "slightly" used Honda Civic. As I posted back then, they figured when the first airbag went off is probably when the bears bowels let go. Yup! Just as bad as you are imagining right now, only worse!!!
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The rest of the story was the guy letting the bear out of his car...in the dark...alone.... !
"Original post" Actually I was told the guy awakened to the sound of his car being demolished and instead of going for help he put some heavy loads in his shotgun, grabbed a flashlight and stood behind one of the doors then opened it. The bear had had enough of small cars and lit out like his kiester was on fire . Good thing that bear was thinking flight , not fight . Having read my fair share of "Great White Hunter" books as a youngster, I believe the weapon of choice for most hunters going after wounded and P. O'd. leopards was the same choice this fella supposedly made for the car eating bear release, a .12 gauge with double ought. Bet a change of underwear was in order shortly after the great bear release in the dark happened. Unfortunately for the guy with the car bears don't wear underwear, they just go where ever they want to or get it scared out of em. Ya think there's any chance Honda might Warranty it?? P.S. I'll take the dead chickens please if I get a choice "Wink-Wink"! __________________
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Didn't mean to hi-jack the thread but your great bear story reminded me a this, except the guy with the car said it was a grizzly. I'm sure in the dark with your skivvies plumb full a 2 year old black bear woulda looked like a Kodiak. At first the fella wasn't completely sure but later it became a griz and the Fish Wildlife and Parks folks said that appeared consistent with the bite marks and amount of scat sprayed all over the car .
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