You arnt a bear hunter unless you use a 25 ACP Pistol

[kraigwy]

Before wandering into his coop, the bear had already hassled a neighbor who had small children at the house, said Drummond, who picked up a garden hose. He set it on "jet" and sprayed.

"I was squirting it in the head and the face, and it just looked at me," he said.

Drummond said he fired his tiny .25-caliber handgun four times into the ground to scare the animal away. The bear then moved toward his neighbor, Drummond said.

"It kind of made an advance towards him. So he gave it a couple shots with the .45," he said.

Dying, the bear crossed the road where Drummond said he killed it with two more gun shots from the .25.

This was after the blacky ate his prize chicken.

I guess bear encounters are in the rise in Anchorage. Another story in the same article:

a black bear reportedly walked up to four girls at a playground in the Moose Crossing military housing between Elmendorf Air Force Base and Fort Richardson, said Elmendorf Deputy Public Affairs Officer Stephen Lee.

"Three of them, I'm told, hit the ground, to kind of just play dead," Lee said.

The fourth girl stood and talked to the bear, "Trying to make herself as big as possible to scare the bear away," he said.

The bear, which looked to be about 3 years old, approached one of the girls who was laying down and "mouthed" her leg, Lee said.

The girl screamed and the bear split, running for the woods.

http://www.adn.com/2010/06/05/1309705/anchorage-bears-losing-in-frequent.html

 

[kodiakbeer]

There, Craig Bledsoe of Eagle River told the story of the black bear that climbed high into his kitchen. Bledsoe, a member of the Alaska Machine Gun Association, was in another room working on photos from the club's recent statewide shoot in Anderson.

His daughter had been making a cheesecake, Bledsoe said. Maybe that's what prompted the bear to climb his siding like Spider-Man. The 63-year-old pilot grabbed his Russian-made assault shotgun and shooed the bear away -- no shots fired.

Now, THAT could have been a much more interesting incident!