Originally Posted by Raferman
Originally Posted by 10Glocks
You can't trust a bear. You can never trust a bear, even one that seems tame. We had our own Timothy Treadwell-type here in North Carolina. "The Bear Lady" in Dare/Tyrell Co. NC lived in a mobile home out in the swamp in an area with the highest density of black bears, and some of the biggest, in the US. She "protected" them by attracting them to her property, feeding them, by hand.

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She walked with them and named them. Even let them come into her trailer. Then she decided to take on area hunters by placing chains and locks blocking access to hunting areas that she didn't own. She had to be warned to stay off other peoples property, and I believe she was eventually charged.

In January 2015 she was reported missing by family. Authorities found her strewn skeleton and clothes scattered in the swamp not too far from her trailer. She had been dragged there and eaten by the bears she "protected."

I go into that swamp a lot. There's a metric shiit load of bears. I've never had problems with any. Only two have been remotely aggressive. But I have had them follow me on trails, and keep coming when we've met on trails going in opposite directions. I always carry in the swamp. Because you can't trust a bear.

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That area is absolutely filthy with bears.

Have never heard that account somehow. But I have seen documentation of 700 and 800 pound bear coming from there. Short aside. I at one time had an Interarms Whitworth ..458 that had supposedly been fired twice by the original owner. I got the other 18 rounds with the gun at a gunshow. I sold it later but somehow ended up with the ammunition. Sold it to a guy that hunted down east in the swamps. After coming up on some of those big buddies while deer hunting he decided he needed a bigger gun. Another fellow I went to church with was in a club down there and told of bear big enough to have their head and shoulders above the top of cane thickets when they stood up.

“When Tyranny becomes Law, Rebellion becomes Duty”

Colossians 3:17 (New King James Version)
"And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him."