Grizz encounter near Wolf Creek, MT

TheTone

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Some people need to take the tinfoil hat off before they go into bear country

Glad the hiker is okay. Grizzlies are a heck of a critter. I was really comfortable around them a decade or so ago but after being away from them a while I don’t have near the desire to hunt around them
 

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My bad on how that sounded. But it was more like if you start shooting, kill it. Because if it gets away wounded they will prosecute you.
Gotcha. I guess golden issue is if you survive to tell the jury how scary it was.

Them things fresk me out. I think they should be wiped out like the old timers did.
 
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There was bear hair on my front sight. In the interest of full disclosure, I jammed the gun into her side and just started pulling the trigger, so there was no aiming involved. I think it was a "no body, no crime" situation.

IDFG took a DNA sample from my chewed up glove and reportedly tracked it back to a collared sow. She was still alive as of 2 summers ago. I received a picture from them of the supposed bear and her cubs feeding on a road killed moose the spring after my incident. I was using 240 grain hardcast bullets, I believe Hornady XTP.
So the sow and cubs survived after all that? Wow! Obviously didn`t hit anything vital. Those slugs are probably walled off.
 

mt terry d

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Collared female.

I don't know what drugs they use anymore but I have alway thought
that "researchers" have created some aggressive and angry bears.

In all my encounters I never ran into one collared or tagged.
If I had I'd have been much more concerned about that individual's temperment.

I hope Mr Adams has had a complete recovery of that left arm.
 

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FWIW, My take;

Of course every situation is different, Thankfully every close encounter I've had to a Grizz/Brownie- they skedaddled and quick.

When stumbling on a bear at close range- I can understand popping off a shot or two to get them to leave.

Having one barreling down on you with their ears pinned back is an entirely different scenario- they have made up their mind and a warning shot is worthless
 
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hoot504

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Lots of paranoid thinking in this thread.

Can ANYONE point to an instance of prosecution where the prosecuted justifiably claimed defense of life against a grizzly?
 
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