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09-18-2020, 03:48 PM
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The only time I was scared of a bear.
Today I was under my car, doing some exhaust work, when out of the corner of my eye I saw some legs beside the car. I assumed some neighbor's dog was over, the kids have a new kitten that was out in the yard so I didnt want it getting chased. I rolled out from under the car as quick as I could... and ended up almost right underneath a black bear!!
I had two vehicles parked beside each other, and me and a very startled bear were sharing the small space between them! With me lying on my back! For the most part I've never worried to much about bears, they leave me alone and I dont bother them, but if there was ever a time for a bear to take a swipe at me that would have been it... fortunately he decided to run 
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09-18-2020, 03:58 PM
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That is one of those moments you just say good bear and hope for the best 
Bears don’t bother me either but that one would make me nervous too
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09-18-2020, 04:02 PM
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Did you change your pants before going back to the exhaust?
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09-18-2020, 04:11 PM
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That's a butt pucker moment. My BIL in Lacrete had something similar happen, working on his grain truck and heard what he thought was his dog sniffing around. Didn't think much of it, then pushed out from under the truck on his creeper and was nose to nose with a bear. It also ran off in a hurry.
A couple weeks later, his neighbor's son used dad's 30-30 to shoot a bear coming in the bathroom window of his family's trailer, they figure it was the same one. Too used to being around people maybe. Would be interesting to come home and find a bear half in, half out of your bathroom window, shot dead by a 13 year old.
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09-18-2020, 05:39 PM
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Holy smokes!
How much time from when you popped out until it bolted?
Hey, I bet you at least know if it was a sow or a boar from your angle!
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09-18-2020, 05:49 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by happy honker
Holy smokes!
How much time from when you popped out until it bolted?
Hey, I bet you at least know if it was a sow or a boar from your angle!
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One of those stories that starts with, You'll never believe this, but 
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09-18-2020, 05:57 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by happy honker
Holy smokes!
How much time from when you popped out until it bolted?
Hey, I bet you at least know if it was a sow or a boar from your angle!
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Not much time... by the time my brain processed how bad things might be about to get he was already running. One of those situations where I felt fairly calm through the experience, but then broke out in a cold sweat aftarwards.
I live in Widewater, he was probably down by the lake and the train had just come by (tracks down the shore), so I think he was already in "flight" mode... alot less likely to go into "fight" mode I'm thinking. After the fact, I think it was pretty much a text book way to convince a bear to maul you.
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09-18-2020, 06:25 PM
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While pushing through some alders on a grown over logging road in Saskatchewan, I woke up a sleeping Black Bear at about 6 or 8 feet under the ferns, a big barrel of a Black Bear.
I was hunting deer with a muzzleloader. Do I shoot him in the right eye or the left eye?
He was talking to me, and weaving his head back and forth. I talked quietly back.
I wondered if the gun would go off, and I never worry about misfiring.
After a minute or two, it seemed about forever, he decided to turn and amble off.
I have seen lots of Grizzlies and more Black bears, but this was the only time I was really scared by a bear.
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09-18-2020, 07:40 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bushleague
After the fact, I think it was pretty much a text book way to convince a bear to maul you.
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You have to patent this phrase.
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09-19-2020, 08:19 AM
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Yup...was pulling the hose out to wash down the side of the house....hear heavy footed running...look over to see a black bear running at me....two loud HEY BEAR...he adjusted his departure by a few yards but still bolted by me....found out that he was around the boat and a couple clamps snapped off that was holding the cover on...that s rated him to make his departure in my direction....too fast for a rise in heart rate....this was one of many but this was the most recent....
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09-19-2020, 09:40 AM
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I had an outfitter friend who claimed, while looking for a lost horse one night, he almost went up to put a halter on a Grizzly, but then Doug was known for being a BSer.
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09-19-2020, 09:56 AM
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One of the best ones I witnessed was having a few drinks at a friends house and he went to kick a dog that was getting into his garbage on the porch. The look on his face as he was came in saying “that was not a dog” after kicking a mid size black bear I will never forget.
It ranks as one of the top 10 funniest things I have ever seen to this day lol
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09-19-2020, 12:14 PM
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Bushleague.... that’s one hell of an experience.... eeesh!!
Got woken up by a yogi at 2 AM last night.
He was knocking around my neighbors garbage cans which are big oil barrels.
Big big guy.... just tossed them around like nothing. It’s that time of year here.
But we put lil fear into him..... heh!
I got lots o close bear tales.... but I save em for sittin by the fire.
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09-19-2020, 01:19 PM
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Picture I took at the Ya Ha a few years ago. Took a lot of zooming so the quality isn't that great. There's a hunter sitting near the top of the hill, when a sow Grizzly and a couple of cubs made a mad dash up the hill, under a hundred yards beside him. he never even saw them.
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