Grizzly Encounter / Shots Fired near Big Sky

[SoOreHunter]

Hazing the bears seems to teach them that people are a threat so it pretty much guarantees an encounter will become aggressive where as a bear might ignore you otherwise.

The guy in the article also punched the bear. He might not have been injured as much if he had played dead. Or maybe he would have been killed horribly...

At least you guys have the option to defend yourselves. In Canada we have to let them chew on us first to justify it and even then your firearms are seized and there is a strong chance what is left of you is going to spend a few years in the courts.

Good song

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[aron]

SSS needs to be implemented

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[The Guide]

A close friend of mine was elk hunting near Livingston today and the only thing that responded to his cow call was a bear.

Jay

 

[BuckSmasher]

In line with my reasoning that if there were fewer bears there would be fewer maulings, if this bear had been killed, as it should have been,:

https://rokslide.com/forums/threads/idaho-grizzly-attack.173119/ it wouldn't have been alive to kill that jogger in July or break into a cabin last week.:

Grizzly bear blamed for fatal Montana mauling and Idaho attack is killed after breaking into a house

Montana wildlife officials say a grizzly bear that fatally mauled a woman on a forest trail west of Yellowstone National Park this summer and attacked a man in Idaho in 2020 has been killed after it broke into a house near West Yellowstone.

apnews.com

 

[bow_dozer]

SSS needs to be implemented

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100%, tolerance/benfit of the doubt is becoming very low for a lot folk i know in the woods.

 

[GAHunterJim]

$33,835
raised of $50,000 goal

 

[AZ_Hunter_2000]

Time to poke the bear (pun intended)

Lots of arrogance on full display.

Take the average human and the average grizzly bear. The human is not the apex predator in this comparison.

Now some WKRs will be the exception. You can recognize these "elite" individuals by their sheer vegan-like arrogance. Without even asking, they will tell you just how superior they are and how bad ass they are when it comes to instilling fear into all animals. If they were 1/10 as bad ass as they claim to be, then there's zero threat from grizzly bears, mountain lions, etc. by just them being in an area. And being the world class business people they also claim to be (see plenty of other threads), they can start a hiker/camper/climber/hunter protection business. For a modest fee, they will show up and all the evil creatures will either run away in fear or sit pretty so folks can pet them, photograph them, etc; basically whatever the bad ass WKR tells the animal to do.

Sad that folks are actually talking about using SSS on a federally protected species. If a person doesn't like a specific law/ruling/regulation, work the process and get it changed. It is also interesting the moderators are actually allowing the discussion of violating federal law to even occur.

All the doom and gloom about grizzly bears. Add up the associated maulings and killings over a single year. That number still would be a slow night compared to the very real and far more common threats commonly found across all of the utopian metropolitan centers in the Lower 48.

 

[Loo.wii]

Unless a grizzly bear suddenly jumps into our discussion on this online forum and convinces me he's the apex predator, I'm going to believe that a hunter with a firearm is the apex predator of any landscape he is on, on the planet. The only reason grizzly bear populations are increasing, is because we allow them to.

you've clearly never met barry

 

[Loo.wii]

I don't get the Desire to Delete grizzlies from existence.

SSS needs to be implemented

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[SteveAndTheCrigBoys]

I don't get the Desire to Delete grizzlies from existence.

Well I doubt you've ever had your lower jaw ripped off by one. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there, having been mauled or not, that have a pretty good reason for wanting them gone.

 

[bow_dozer]

If a person doesn't like a specific law/ruling/regulation, work the process and get it changed. It is also interesting the moderators are actually allowing the discussion of violating federal law to even occur.

Sounds like you don't know how the "process" works. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/env...izzly-protections-canceling-bear-hunt-n912741

I am not going to argue with you on a forum, it's clear these critters don't apply to your livelihood.

 

[Hnthrdr]

Fish and game kill them pretty regularly, my buddy is a warden out of great falls and has been on at least one dangerous bear in the Bob. I’ll have to ask him if he has any other, might as well raffle the tags off. Heck bring a population like that to Co and you are in for some real excitement… I have a feeling we may get it with wolves… probably going to set some records for new negative human/wolf interactions

 

[KurtR]

Why not just send the ROAL reaper out and let him loose with the hand of god 270. A picture from one of his first encounters.

 

[Loo.wii]

Well I doubt you've ever had your lower jaw ripped off by one. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there, having been mauled or not, that have a pretty good reason for wanting them gone.

I view grizzles as part of the natural environment. IMO they should be re-introduced but well managed throughout their historic range. If someone gets mauled by a grizzly its no different than a shark. you're in their house you've become part of nature. Respect the animals and stay strapped.

 

[hobbes]

Summarized from an FWP release today:

An upland hunter near Freezeout Lake was charged yesterday by a male grizzly along a shelter belt. The Hunter fired two rounds from his shotgun at 15 feet, hitting it at least once, and causing it to flee. FWP has found evidence of a wound but no bear, searching with drones and a helicopter.

That'll require new shorts.

 

[Loo.wii]

Summarized from an FWP release today:

An upland hunter near Freezeout Lake was charged yesterday by a male grizzly along a shelter belt. The Hunter fired two rounds from his shotgun at 15 feet, hitting it at least once, and causing it to flee. FWP has found evidence of a wound but no bear, searching with drones and a helicopter.

That'll require new shorts.

His Brown starfish puckered into a singularity that warped us into another universe.

 

[t_carlson]

I always thought "The Truth Comes Out" was a better song, but either way, ol Corb understands what is going on.

 

[t_carlson]

Time to poke the bear (pun intended)

Lots of arrogance on full display.

Take the average human and the average grizzly bear. The human is not the apex predator in this comparison.

Now some WKRs will be the exception. You can recognize these "elite" individuals by their sheer vegan-like arrogance. Without even asking, they will tell you just how superior they are and how bad ass they are when it comes to instilling fear into all animals. If they were 1/10 as bad ass as they claim to be, then there's zero threat from grizzly bears, mountain lions, etc. by just them being in an area.

Sounds like someone is afraid of bears and resentful to those who can get a good night's sleep in the backcountry.

 

[Flyjunky]

Summarized from an FWP release today:

An upland hunter near Freezeout Lake was charged yesterday by a male grizzly along a shelter belt. The Hunter fired two rounds from his shotgun at 15 feet, hitting it at least once, and causing it to flee. FWP has found evidence of a wound but no bear, searching with drones and a helicopter.

That'll require new shorts.

It would be interesting to know if that bear will ever charge a person again.

 

[MTBrotz]

FWP wraps field investigation into grizzly bear attack near Big Sky

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials wrapped their field investigation of the grizzly bear attack resulting in a man injured south of Big Sky last Friday.

nbcmontana.com

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