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Beat me to it...

When I was a little tyke, my fam was making a drive through Yellowstone Nat'l Park. Mom got out of the car to film a moose with her 8mm camera. One of those handheld camera's with 3 lens built onto the front of the camera that you could twist to change focal lengths. So my dad yells at my mom that she's getting a bit too close to the moose. She pay's him no mind. Looking through the lens of one of those antique camera's, everything looks much further away. Anyway Dad climbs out of the car and starts walking toward her. Finally she turns around and screams. A bear climbed into the backseat of our car and took a package of potato chips out of my hand, as both my mother and father ran screaming and hollering toward the car. The bear scurried off with my bag of chips. My sister was alone in the front seat. Neither of us were frightened, just surprised, however no one exited the car again before leaving the park.

In the mid 1950's my parents bought the Evergreen Lodge in W. Yellowstone, MT. We had a bear that would come to our back door and beg for Orange soda pop. You'd hand the bear the opened pop bottle and it'd stand on it's hind legs, guzzle down the whole soda pop, then saunter off.

In those days we had to take our own trash to the local dump. There were always bears at the dump. My most vivid recollection was an albino bear we'd see there. White as snow. My dad would make molotov cocktails to scare the bears away so we could safely empty our trash.

The good ole days...


DMc : )

Wow. Thanks for sharing.

jeez
i thought this was another safariman thread.

Bears that have no fear of man are going to be trouble sooner or later. Men that loose their fear of bears are f@&king idiots and should be prevented from reproducing provided Darwin doesn't step in first.



I don't mind bears around the house provided they are like booboo who beat feat a split second after I snapped this pic. But if there is a bear lingering around the neighborhood with no fear of man, I'll cap it as a DLP. Too many little kids in the neighborhood for me to do nothing.

Yep, what JMR said. If the bear, snake, Fox, bobcat, lion etc is close and not afraid, it soon will be or simply not be. Most all of my neighbors feel that way. Rule of the 3 “s” is applied equally to all critters that get too relaxed around us. A neighborhood “fatwa” has been issued on what we call the “Gimp,” a good sized bear with an injured hind leg. Experienced camp robber and has shown little fear when sighted.

Bad encounter ahead. Just hope it's some jackass and not someone's kid/kids.

I would have my gun out and safety off. I would have made a lot of noise to get that sumbitch out of there.

WI. is full of bears and like DMc, we would go down to the dump to watch them at night back when they had good dumps instead of landfills. That one in the video is a typical camp raiding bear. We had one tear the top off our cooler and eat all the food for the weekend and drink all the soda. Never touched the beer though. That bear should be relocated, not shot. I had a big one follow me to my bow stand like a beagle on a rabbit and it gave me the feeling that I wasn't on the top of the food chain when it stood at the base of my tree and looked up at me. Later I remembered that I'd worn the same camo pants when I dressed out two bears that my buddies had shot the week before. I don't have much use for bears myself. Kind of like overgrown raccoons.

Had one of those types of encounters down in the Glades years back. Curious bear on the other side of the screen door. Watched about 4-5 minutes and when he started to tear the door down a load of 00 buck flew over his head. Maybe he came away with the thought that screen doors are not to be fooled with. I came away with a different thought. Ho Li .......them critters are lightning quick when aroused. Had he charged rather than fled it is doubtful I would have got off a second shot.

I don't want to shoot a bear, period. I will not ever let one get that close to me again.

Hey boo-boo!! see dat pic a nic basket over their?

Gee yogi.... Mr ranger told us to leave picnic baskets alone.

F u c k that ranger boo-boo, let's eat!!!!

If it's bear season, that bear is next month's pepperoni. Not bear season? Put the fear of God in him and hope he learns to avoid the scary bipeds.

[quote=Windfall] That bear should be relocated, not shot.[quote]
Then, said bear becomes someone else's problem. Seen it. The NMG&F relocates many up into our part of the country - where they become local problems (Like reaching over fences into yards - reaching for toddlers)
BS - SSS

A bear that comfortable around people is likely to be a problem for someone.

Not unless I wanted to eat it.

Above postings - pretty much all of it. Bear was curious and hesitant. About the time that nose hit the tent a good left jab (right holding the difference.... or reverse if one is wrong-handed ) would have solved the "problem" and possibly taught the bear not to mess with humans.

Actually I'd not have waited that long to discourage it - as I said- it was hesitant, ripe for any type aggressive countermeasure.

Maybe when I was 10, but my armament was limited along the lines of a spork and a cane pole. Over the years I've had similar encounters made more enjoyable by the presence of something that could end the bear if needed.

I am never putting anything cooled by my own bloodstream near a bear's mouth... a good loud holler would have sent that bear tearing ass down the mountain. Letting it build confidence like that was stupid.

Yep. Its learning it can do as it wishes with no consequences.

So las, no future danger to a woman in her period or to children with food in a tent?

Did anyone watch all 18 minutes or whatever of this maroon?

I agree with Steelhead. He wants to become one with nature...the natural way...fertilizer.

I would have fired a shot next to him first if he reacted wrong I would drop him in his tracks.

The way he was acting I suspect he would have schit himself and learned a valuable lesson, But you never can tell for sure.