AZ man killed by black bear

[Trr15]

Looks like a predatory attack by a healthy adult male.

Bear Kills Arizona Man Having Coffee in Unprovoked Attack: Officials

Neighbors intervened and one shot the bear, but by then the 66-year-old man had already died from his injuries, an Arizona sheriff's department says.

www.today.com

 

[Still Hunter]

Got to always be wary of Bears and Cougars.

 

[Pinewood]

Tough way to go. May he RIP.

I often think I can take a small black bear in combat, but I could be wrong.

 

[87TT]

You don’t need a gun they say…………………

 

[7mm-08]

Tough way to go. May he RIP.

I often think I can take a small black bear in combat, but I could be wrong.

Animals are WAY tougher than humans. I suspect a small black bear would be a handful in a dark alley.

 

[ELKOHUNTER]

Went out with his boots on.

 

[TxxAgg]

Dang

 

[pacoalcracker]

An 80 pound pit bull would kill you in minutes......just think how quick it would be if it was 200 pounds(small black bear).

 

[Marbles]

I often think I can take a small black bear in combat, but I could be wrong.

Depends, in part on luck. I don't want to find out, but if pushed in a corner white knuckle it and fight.

Last Stand

Armed with only a knife, a desperate hunter takes on a grizzly.

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[WoodnotRust]

Here's the latest from AZ Game and Fish. Straight-up unprovoked predatory attack. I made the mistake of showing my latest game camera photos to my wife. I saw this guy daily for a few weeks, then a sow with cubs and just last week a black-colored black bear with one ear half ripped off. I'm guessing this guy is king of the mountain.

Better still is the discussion by Rokslide member @mavinwa2 : https://rokslide.com/forums/threads/best-bear-spray.181338/post-1755083 How does one guy get into so much trouble and live to tell the story?

 

[mavinwa2]

Better still is the discussion by Rokslide member @mavinwa2 : https://rokslide.com/forums/threads/best-bear-spray.181338/post-1755083 How does one guy get into so much trouble and live to tell the story?

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MAVinWA2 here to respond, aka MavHntr/YouTube-Mav's Outdoor Adventures

I'm in my mid-60's now. But back in my 30-40's, I'd be compared to the infamous Aron here, as in that amount of time spent in the outdoors & remote backcountry. Far more than the average working guy.
Even now, retired, I spend over 150 days per year, camping, fishing, hunting....and love every minute of it. Doing it while I can, as my body & health allows.

"Trouble" always seems to find me. Just being aware of my surroundings, prepared, quick thinking-reacting and getting lucky, I survived a few encounters with predators when hunting....fishing AK too.
I posted on this site about a Grizz in MT that charged me back in the 1980's. Vowed to never go back to MT stick-n-string elk hunting and haven't in the last 37 years. Invited several times to hunt NW Wyoming but declined be it for the brown bear. One grizz charge and pair of pissed pants was enough in a lifetime for me.

Never went back to northern Idaho either. But that wasn't 4-legged preds but rather 2-legged, skin head types. Hunting public national forest, north of Coeur d'Alene, was approached at trailhead, parking area by 3 men. "Aryan brothers" as they denoted in my presence. A brief exchange wracked my nerves to the core. Quickly, I just loaded up and drove off, never to return. I carry a concealed weapon to this day, because of this incident.
My father was an Air Force Capt, having flown F86 Sabre Jet in the Korean War. Married a Japanese hospital nurse, my mother, having met while he was recuperating from being shot down...by a Russian piloted Mig.
My dad, his squadron buddies always said; "when you saw a white face in the pit on a fly by, it's pucker time".

So, for a 6'-2", 210-lb, 50% Asian/White male, had my run-ins over racism many times in my life.
At my age, health, it's the 2-legged type predators that concern me most in the outdoors.
But I'm prepared to leave 'em where they encounter me, should they make the wrong choice.

If a 4-legged pred gets me, F' it, I was due. But I hope to go down fighting.

 

[Maki35]

They say black bears don't attack.
They're animals. there's no telling what they will do. This is why I carry a handgun when I'm in the woods/camping.
Years ago, a buddy was bow hunting when a black bear came after him. Now he carries a handgun all the time.

 

[mavinwa2]

whats of note in the video is when the woman jounalist reports: "...maybe the bear was protecting it's territory, where the man was building his cabin..."

BS I say, the bear was hungry.

 

[dboone3]

They say black bears don't attack.
They're animals. there's no telling what they will do. This is why I carry a handgun when I'm in the woods/camping.
Years ago, a buddy was bow hunting when a black bear came after him. Now he carries a handgun all the time.

Are you carrying concealed or open? I'm trying to find a comfortable holster for my G19.

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

whats of note in the video is when the woman jounalist reports: "...maybe the bear was protecting it's territory, where the man was building his cabin..."

BS I say, the bear was hungry.

I’ve had close encounters with hundreds of black bear. Unless it’s a mom/cubs it’s usually always starvation. It’s also usually those boars that are just off their mother and younger than 2 years old, trying to fend for themselves but are starving.

 

[mavinwa2]

The follow up report, on the bear autopsy/necropsy, determined the large (366-lbs) male bear was healthy & in excellent condition, no diseases...and was not a "cocaine Bear".

 

[Hackleback]

I'm still way more concerned about 2 legged varmints than 4 legged ones.

 

[Dos Perros]

Was the bear killed by the rifle shot? Or perhaps later by fish and game?

 

[Maki35]

Are you carrying concealed or open? I'm trying to find a comfortable holster for my G19.

Open carry when I'm in the woods.

 

[eddielasvegas]

Was the bear killed by the rifle shot? Or perhaps later by fish and game?

According to news reports, the neighbor killed the bear with, I believe, two shots from his rifle.


Eddie