Arac; Top of the morning to you sir, I hope the week treated you well.
That video is yet another example of why we spend a bunch of time on the "ethics" night of CORE class talking about the pros and cons of videoing every minute detail of a hunt and then posting it.... you know?
I left a comment on youtube saying as much - couldn't help myself this morning as I'm waiting for a new hunting partner to arrive.
We'll be going up onto the mountain behind the house where the neighbor saw a big boar grizzly a year or three ago and we'll be calling too.
Anyway I thought the choice of a "Ruger Mini whatever it was" to be fascinating to say the least?
I see the new partner has arrived so we'll be off now. All the best to you all in your remaining hunts this fall sir and do be careful out there.
Will definitely be a story to tell their grandkids about.
Just guessing but I believe the hunter who kind of lost it for bit was out in front of the group as the shooter on the elk that was suppose to show up. He got an up close and personal moment.
Thats no grizzly charge, they are simply coming to the call like any deer to rattling antlers etc.... I dont speak french either but I think the 2 guys are saying... "lets leave this cry baby at home next time because he crys when scared and its embarrassing"
We had an incident here where two hunters elk called in a sow and two 400 lb year old cubs and the sow mauled one guy up pretty good. It was written up in Field and Stream. They concluded that the sow was "teaching" her cubs how to locate and bring down an elk by charging into a bull and his harem of cows and taking down anything that moved. One guy moved.
He probably wasn't expecting it, and was caught off guard. In years past I'd always played over a close up encounter with a grizzly as it was expected while calling elk. So when I had a close up with a cougar, it caught me off guard and that made the experience more shocking as I'd never thought about how or what I should do in that situation. I didn't break down like the guy in the vid, but I definitely got a lot more of an adrenaline rush than I did with a grizzly at 40 feet in our camp this year.
I imagine that expecting a bull (?) and seeing three grizzlys come running up might trigger some latent emotion in someone especially if not too experienced. Videoing can be deceiving in that actual distances can be a lot closer too than they appear in the video.
Looked like sow and two cubs though not?; the three obviously knew what the call meant.
Griz/ brown bear will come in to moose calling too. Not been " charged" yet tho. They just kinda amble in showing no " intent". Ha! It's the whistling under their breath that gives em away ....
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.