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Those bears, like all bears I've so far had confrontations with, were most courteous and polite. Once the mistake was realized, they wasted no time in departing for a new zip code. I'll take bear confrontations any day to a stroll through any urban neighborhood, and statistics back me up all the way.
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How did you get a weight on the yearlings? That would be a big yearling for sure. Remember in 1981 the sow and two cubs that charged the Airman on Elmendorf. I saw the cubs they stuffed on Elmendorf in their animal museum. They were small. Same year cubs. At least that guy had a hot barrel, and he killed all 3 bears, with his 338WM. The next fall down South Illiamna I ran into the same thing, couldn't tell the sow from the cubs, had to at least be 2nd year cubs, I don't run a hot barrel so only had 3 in the mag. That'll make you think. By myself down there over by PBY lake.
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That's just wrong! Laughing...
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Those bears, like all bears I've so far had confrontations with, were most courteous and polite. Once the mistake was realized, they wasted no time in departing for a new zip code. I had a black bear come in like that once when I was cow calling. It stopped when I yelled, but it wasn't so polite, looked like it was pissed that I got to the elk first. Turned broadside and walked off slow and kind of stiff-legged.
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Three times I've had grizzlies come when I was calling for something else, and one came at a fast ground-eating lope to a cow moose in heat sound. The others came more slowly and surreptitiously. None persisted when they discovered that a human was making the sound but I'd hate to bet my life on that. None of them ran away. One hid nearby, one stayed unmoving while I left and one moseyed away. Making any kind of prey sound in bear country without considering that a bear might come is kind of short sighted. We've had a good many black bears come to rodent, rabbit and hoofed critter sounds, and had a cougar come to antler rattling, all incidental and separate from stands when we were intentionally calling bears or cougars. Engage brain, then make the call sound... 
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Their elk call sounded more like elk in distress call. Same sound they make when being chewed on by a few wolves, diner bell for grizz.
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