Could You Maintain Your Composure?

With the bears I've been seeing the last few days, probably. Well maybe. Depending on the day.

:wink:
 
I couldn't understand. They were speaking some foreign language... :mrgreen:

That was cool Copied and sent the link to my son. Yeah, after deciding not to fill my tag with that bear, I'd have shoo'd him off earlier.

Guy
 
I would have probably passed on him but he was way to curious for me to have not messed up my depends :mrgreen: we have those size Bears going into local hospital's and hotel's the ones that have the automatic doors that open when the bear walks up to the door of course they are curious and will walk rite on in !! When the doors open, it will clear the room very quickly but happens way too often and they also get caught in the middle of I40 in the mountains just east of town ! Being so dry in our area drives them in to town as we have houses built on the side of the mountains up to around 7000 ft! If not a tad higher!
 
I guess he wanted a closer look and got one :lol: that bear was definitely sizing him up.......
 
I'm normally able to make a decision whether to shoot or to pass more quickly than did that chap. :shock:
 
I would have also. I think he was playing to the camera and had a back up shooter if it went sour.
 
Actually he had no back up , camera man was only carrying the camera. Those two guys spend alot of time in and around the bears in that area, I think there was a longer clip with them talking after , they figure they had spent 400 hrs in 3 years just on bears.
 
Sooner or later the law of averages will catch up with you. Wasn't there a fellow in Alaska that lived with Bears and finally met up with one that had him for dinner? :roll: :lol:
 
I have been pretty close to several black bears. I would have been comfortable up until the point where the bear started to wander over and give me a really close look. I would have probably said something to him a little earlier. A quiet word or two has moved them away from me a couple of times.
I was 17 measured "feet", from a large cougar one day, the safety was off, rifle was up and I was worried for several seconds. I did not even think to say anything to it, I was to busy mentally preparing myself for the charge. It bounded away. Why didn't I shoot? I was to busy admiring him/her, they are magnificent.
 
I was hunting bear back years ago really early in the morning, raining hard. About 5:00 AM I was sitting in the Cle Elum town dump about 1/2 mile from town, on a rock with my 7mm Mag in my lap loaded, safety on. Cle Elum was about 40 families then. I never did see the bear but one was kicking cans after I had sat there for a hour and finally it sniffed my foot. Meanwhile I was figuring out how to shoot this damned bear in the pitch dark without shooting my own foot, the bear decided to leave town about then, woofed and ran scattering cans.

I have had a lot of contact with black bears in Quebec when I worked as a driller. Someone killed that bear who sniffed my foot a week or so later and it weighed about 450 pounds.
 
I was wondering why when it saw him & he moved a little why it the bear did not pounce on him out of instinct, I don't know. I can see letting it come close for a better look but not that close, Who would of been at fault if it had attacked out of instinct ? I have shot 1 Black bear and know little about them & only seen 3 shot in my life & the only one that dropped in its tracks was shot with a .340 Weatherby Mag. Mine with a 300 H&H & my friends with a .270 Weatherby Mag went 40-50 yards before pilling up & both had close to fist size holes in there chest. Just me I would of scared it off at 40 yard once I knew it was not what I wanted. Driving up by Kenora about 5 years ago outside of town I saw a very large Black bear cross the road so I pulled up along side of it and stopped about 25 yards from it to watch it & it gave a false charge on the car & had no fear of me or the rental car, He was a Alpha Bear & I don't believe took anything from anyone & would of been a great trophy. Good Hunting
 
he didn't have his ears back, wasn't walking stiff legged, he wasn't gonna bother him, only curious, if he would have talked to him he would have left sooner, been close enough I had my hand on them when I shot them, they usualy aren't aggressive.
RR
 
I do believe I would have made up my mind and alerted the bear considerably before he did.
 
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