A friend up Eagle River Valley keeps bee hives on his deck. I always told him that seemed like a bad idea. It's kinda' like inviting several hundred pounds of bear up to your glass French doors, but what do I know? Sure enough, he had a black bear show up, and after running him off just to have him repeatedly return (including a 12 gauge bean bag round on the rump), he finally killed it with a slug. It drops on the driveway. He calls the Troopers who come, ask for help lifting it into then back of his truck, and away go the Trooper and bear carcass.
No muss, no fuss.
Of course, if it had been me or a Seavey-in-a-hurry, things are different. It's all a crap shoot in the America of today...........
