03-06-2009, 04:29 AM
I can honestly say I had one and only one experience with the choice of shooting an onward comming bear and her cub or using yet another option not mentioned.
I was deer hunting up near gaylord michigan many moons ago, packing a 22 side arm and a 30/06 rifle.
I had sat down on a stump to watch over a freshly cut servaors line though the woods. and about half hour in to my watch I got the munchies... I reached in to my pocket and grabbed me a snikers, opened it and took a bite when I look up down the trail and there are these two bear comming right twards me down this 5 food wide trail not more than a hundred feet away.
ya, I did have a big gun, and no I did not want to shoot it and have to deal with the concervation officers... the optioin I used was to break the candy bar in half, drop one peice on the ground the other peice on the stump and the rapper on the trail, I got up and turned around keeping an eye over my sholder and walked the other way down the trail and stepped in to the woods at my first oppertunity.
Looking back I could see the bear messing around the stump pawing at the rapper.....
who'd a thunk it, that a candy bar rapper was all that stood between an unwanted killing of a bear or human...[
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I was deer hunting up near gaylord michigan many moons ago, packing a 22 side arm and a 30/06 rifle.
I had sat down on a stump to watch over a freshly cut servaors line though the woods. and about half hour in to my watch I got the munchies... I reached in to my pocket and grabbed me a snikers, opened it and took a bite when I look up down the trail and there are these two bear comming right twards me down this 5 food wide trail not more than a hundred feet away.
ya, I did have a big gun, and no I did not want to shoot it and have to deal with the concervation officers... the optioin I used was to break the candy bar in half, drop one peice on the ground the other peice on the stump and the rapper on the trail, I got up and turned around keeping an eye over my sholder and walked the other way down the trail and stepped in to the woods at my first oppertunity.
Looking back I could see the bear messing around the stump pawing at the rapper.....
who'd a thunk it, that a candy bar rapper was all that stood between an unwanted killing of a bear or human...[
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