BadMedicine
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Sorry, but I had to ask, I don't know how many of you are here in alaska, but I was wondering if you'd heard about the guy who shot a black bear in defence of his daughter on the Kenai river a couple of days ago.
People had been seeing it scavenging salmon carcasses for a few days prior, but when it walked out of the brush by a 13 year old girl things got messy. The dad told the girl to move away and she did but the bear kept creeping closer. The man shouted and tried to scare it, but it kept easing closer. He said in the report he was going to fire a warning shot over it's back but wasn't sure he'd have time to get off a second shot if it charged. He shot it once in the neck with his .44 mag and dropped it. then in compliance with AF&G self defence regulations he skinned it and was going to surrender the skin and claws to AF&G. Alot of people down on the banks were yelling at him and cussing him for shooting it. There was an investigation and they found that the guy had a license and was in an open black bear area (black bear is open year-round in most areas). So they dropped the investigation and I think are giving his rug back.
some people wrote into the editor of the news paper about how this guy shouldn't have shot such a good tempered bear. Why do these people live in alaska if they don't like hunting? giving this guy a bad rap for shooting a legal bear is ignorant. Especially a bear that had lost it's fear of man. Pan handleing bears are the most likely to attack anyway, and this one had been down there a while living off of human scraps. Let me know if you saw this article Kieth,
Badmedicine.
People had been seeing it scavenging salmon carcasses for a few days prior, but when it walked out of the brush by a 13 year old girl things got messy. The dad told the girl to move away and she did but the bear kept creeping closer. The man shouted and tried to scare it, but it kept easing closer. He said in the report he was going to fire a warning shot over it's back but wasn't sure he'd have time to get off a second shot if it charged. He shot it once in the neck with his .44 mag and dropped it. then in compliance with AF&G self defence regulations he skinned it and was going to surrender the skin and claws to AF&G. Alot of people down on the banks were yelling at him and cussing him for shooting it. There was an investigation and they found that the guy had a license and was in an open black bear area (black bear is open year-round in most areas). So they dropped the investigation and I think are giving his rug back.
some people wrote into the editor of the news paper about how this guy shouldn't have shot such a good tempered bear. Why do these people live in alaska if they don't like hunting? giving this guy a bad rap for shooting a legal bear is ignorant. Especially a bear that had lost it's fear of man. Pan handleing bears are the most likely to attack anyway, and this one had been down there a while living off of human scraps. Let me know if you saw this article Kieth,
Badmedicine.