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Since recreational pot is legal in Montana maybe he should just tell the judge he was high as all fk when this big assed bear came waltzing by.

It's an excuse that's worked for drunk drivers for decades.

scumload: YOU are so unbelievably stupid it hurts!
Like others have pointed out on this thread (and numerous others!) you are not only stupid YOU are useless!
Every spring I travel the 375 miles to Hunt Spring Black Bear in the "Yaak"! And many years in the past I have Hunted Whitetailed Deer thereabouts in the fall.
The numbers of Grizzly Bears in that area has increased to the point of now being dangerous!
While you constantly sit in your desk chair with your pud in one hand and your mouse in the other stopping only to post your mindless blather, many true sportsmen are out in the wild Hunting and recreating.
More and more of those folks are killed and maimed by Grizzly Bears every year here in Montana and the Rockies!
Look it up dickwad.
Idiots like yourself are simply to ignorant to realize there are TWO sides to every story!
I am not saying ANY of the actions that were/are illegal by the 80 year old are excusable but if'n a Grizzly Bear comes 40 yards from my house here in Montana IT is dead - whether it is eating my bird seed or not!
PERIOD!
To date the closest Grizzly Bear I have seen to my house has been 16 air miles and the closest Grizzly caused human death has been 45 air miles.
My suggestion to you (and I fully appreciate that YOU are to stupid to accept it) is DO NOT try to make yourself look stupid publicly, by espousing on subjects with which YOU have absolutely NO knowledge.
Sheesh.
In a way I feel sorry for you.
Sad.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

He won that title a long time ago and his record is untouchable

Especially if the jury had a few LGBTQs on it.......

Inbreeding will do that to a person .

A collar attached to a west bound semi might do the trick.

If an 80 year old geezer was looking for free room, board, and medical care for life, shouldn't he be targeting politicians instead of grizzly bears?

Rooster7;
Good morning to you sir, I hope winter is behaving out east for you folks and you're all well.

The crazy thing about that day was it was close to -20° with maybe a foot of snow or less in some places up there, but cold as it was we weren't expecting to bump grizzly tracks.

As it turned out we cut the tracks of a single bear and then a pair, which we guessed to be a mother and maybe a cub that'd den with her another winter? Not sure.

We did track them for 5 km on a logging road and lost the tracks at one of the many appropriately named "Bear Lake" which like "Fish Lake" seems to have multiple locations.

But for sure, we didn't want any long chases into the pucker brush after wounded whitetail that day, the theory being that if the bears were still up, they'd be pretty hungry.

It does keep an old guy like me on my toes for sure.

All the best.

Dwayne

20 million illegals running amuck in this country,all supposedly unaccounted for, but shoot a collared critter and Uncle Sam can find it in a hollow tree AND a river. Dammit son...

Osky;
Me again sir, thanks for the additional info.

That's wild to me that they're still out in -35°.

We hear that it's not uncommon for grizzly bears to get up for a stretch in the winter here, but not as common with BC black bears.

Last fall at the end of our whitetail season, which is the end of November, buddy and I were on the mountain above the house on a crisp morning that the somewhat suspect thermometer on the Dodge said was -24°C.

As I was going through the snow, not quite up to my knees - I'm short so 14" or so - I cut the tracks of a small black bear and followed them until it dropped into a canyon that I wasn't about to head into.

My thought then and I'm not sure why exactly I had it, but my thought was that it hadn't had enough grub or fat buildup before denning. Whether it had denned already or was late denning, I cannot say either.

Again this was a young bear.

We had a massive berry crop failure in the mountains this year, which combined with a couple fairly big wildfires pushed the bears down into the valley here, contributing to the 7 we had in the yard. Not only did they total my pear tree, they killed one adult mulie and one mulie fawn in the gully below the house, judging from the hooves we found and the screaming the neighbors reported.

Mulie fawns especially, do not tend to go gently or quietly into that good night..

The CO's were run ragged this year with problem bears and are necessarily very tight lipped about how many went on the last ride in the big culvert, as that was the only option they had.

One BC bio I was chatting with this month figured there was every chance many of them will die in the dens this winter as there just wasn't enough food to go around.

Thanks again, it's good stuff.

Dwayne