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I'd have ass-shot it with my trusty 600 Dinosaur and then dragged his dead carcass out a few days later with my trusty school bus yellow Uberlaunch...after a friend climbed down the mountain and hooked him up for me and right before a couple of suckers bought some trusts and donated their kidneys. Then I'd have went home and took some sexy pics of my old lady posing in a bikini and posted them before I climbed aboard my (donated) Harley trike and did a couple of donuts.

We have a saying up here: “A fed bear is a dead bear” , as they are highly intelligent eating machines, with all that implies. I’d bet that yo-yo in the video had food in the tent, present or past. Bear certainly seemed interested in that zipper - probably contaminated with food smell from hands or clothing.

This bruin looks and acts like a young bear trying to figure out his way in the world. The tent appears to be pitched on cleared ground, which suggests a .gov campsite, which means people/food are there often. So this bear is already being habituated to people. He's too young to be a threat now, to this guy, but that will change unless he's taught not to go there.

Chase this little guy off with pepper spray and loud noise, and he'll learn to avoid campgrounds and people. But this videographer's behavior is neutral at best, and may be reinforcing habituated behavior, which may well lead to a problem bear that will need to be killed.

Relocating a bear depends entirely on where said bear is removed to. If it's removed to your freezer, it works 100%.

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...


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Agreed, this guy is a yo-yo.

This bruin looks and acts like a young bear trying to figure out his way in the world. The tent appears to be pitched on cleared ground, which suggests a .gov campsite, which means people/food are there often. So this bear is already being habituated to people. He's too young to be a threat now, to this guy, but that will change unless he's taught not to go there.

Chase this little guy off with pepper spray and loud noise, and he'll learn to avoid campgrounds and people. But this videographer's behavior is neutral at best, and may be reinforcing habituated behavior, which may well lead to a problem bear that will need to be killed.

You bet, spooky deal all around, another reason I carry a sidearm when bowhunting anymore.

I had a similar and fatal, for the bear, encounter in that country with with a bow while hunting elk about 7 years ago. Now i carry when in that country and shine ahead for eyes when walking trails or logging roads out after dark. If it can happen with a bear it can happen with a cat.

I bet Gunner! And a experience I had with a mountain lion is the reason I don't bow hunt anywhere in the lower 48 without my Glock 20 10mm on my hip.