Outdoor Oddities » Bear http://www.outdooroddities.com Strange, but true, stories of outdoor oddities Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:12:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Why They Carry Guns In Alaska http://www.outdooroddities.com/2011/02/26/why-they-carry-guns-in-alaska/ http://www.outdooroddities.com/2011/02/26/why-they-carry-guns-in-alaska/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 06:25:20 +0000 Joe Beitler http://www.outdooroddities.com/?p=1206 Here’s a look at the dangers of living in the back woods of Alaska.  This is the story as it came to me.

Friends,

Have I got a story for you guys!

King season is over, and since I had a day off before silvers start, I thought I would go for a walk! This occurred at 11:16 am this morning  (Sunday), just 2/10 of a mile from my house, ON OUR ROAD while walking my dogs (trying to get in shape for hunting season, ironically!) for the record, this is in a residential area-not back in the woods, no  bow hunting, no stealth occurring…

I heard a twig snap, and looked back…full on charge-a huge brownie, ears back, head low and motorin’ full speed! Came with zero warning; no  woof, no popping of the teeth, no standing up, nothing like what you think or see on TV! It charged from less than 20 yards and was on me in about one-second! Totally surreal. I just started shooting in the general direction, and praise God that my second shot (or was it my third?) rolled him at 5 feet and he skidded to a stop 10 feet BEYOND where I was shooting from. I actually sidestepped him and fell over backwards on the last shot, and his momentum carried him to a stop past where I fired my first shot!

It was a prehistoric old boar-no teeth, no fat-weighed between 900-1000 lbs and took five men to DRAG it onto a tilt-bed trailer! Big bear. Its Paw measured out at about a 9 1/2 footer!

Never ever thought “it” would happen to me! It’s always some other smuck, right?

Well, no bull. I am still high on adrenaline, with my gut in a Knot. Feels like I did 10000 crunches without stopping! Almost puked for an hour after, had the burps and couldn’t even stand up as the troopers conducted their investigation! Totally wiped me out-cant even put that feeling into words, by far the most emotion I have ever felt at once!

No doubt that God was with me, as I brought my Ruger .454 Casull (and some “hot” 350 grain solids) just for the heck of it, and managed to draw and snap shoot (pointed, never even aimed!) from the hip! Total luck shot!

All I can say is Praise God for my safety and for choosing to leave the wife and kids at home on this walk! Got a charter tomorrow, so gonna TRY to get some sleep now!

Talk to ya soon,

Greg & Sherri

Soldotna , AK 99669

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]]> http://www.outdooroddities.com/2011/02/26/why-they-carry-guns-in-alaska/feed/ 0 Big Bear shot Saddle Hills Alberta – Sept 2010 http://www.outdooroddities.com/2011/02/18/big-bear-shot-saddle-hills-alberta-sept-2010/ http://www.outdooroddities.com/2011/02/18/big-bear-shot-saddle-hills-alberta-sept-2010/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:52:50 +0000 Joe Beitler http://www.outdooroddities.com/?p=1187 These two gents were calling elk in the Saddle Hills south of working when this big guy slipped in on the caller.

The shooter spotted the bear 8 yards from the caller and dropped him with 5 shots out of his 338 Rem Mag. Farmers in the area knew about the Bear but weren’t able to track after it had killed 3 horses, 5 cows, 13 sheep and a pen full of chickens on several different homesteads in the area.

Fish and wildlife had bear traps set up in the area but notice on surveillance video that when ever a he would enter his hump would hit the top of the culvert trap slowing him enough that the trap door would wack him on the head before he was all the way in check out the scar tissue on his face.

Bear weighed in just under 1300 pounds and would have stood 11 ¾ feet tall on its hind legs.

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]]> http://www.outdooroddities.com/2011/02/18/big-bear-shot-saddle-hills-alberta-sept-2010/feed/ 0 Bison out runs a Grizzly Bear in Yellowstone National Park http://www.outdooroddities.com/2010/12/21/bison-out-runs-a-grizzly-bear-in-yellowstone-national-park/ http://www.outdooroddities.com/2010/12/21/bison-out-runs-a-grizzly-bear-in-yellowstone-national-park/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:25:14 +0000 Joe Beitler http://www.outdooroddities.com/?p=1138 Here’s a story of a Bison that got in trouble in a hot pool in Yellowstone National Park.  Seems a Grizzly thought about making a meal out of the Bison and decided to chase it down.  Check out the exposed skin on the Bison.

Read the whole story here

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  • Monster Crocodile in the Congo
  • Giant Grizzly Bear
  • Giant Texas Gator
  • Dog tangles with a Porcupine
  • Human Remains found in a Crocodile (yuck)
  • Albino Whitetail Fawn
  • Giant Fish
  • Giant Spiders of Iraq
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Don’t forget to check out this warning sign about bears

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]]> http://www.outdooroddities.com/2010/10/12/black-bear-on-a-tight-rope/feed/ 0 3 Legged Bear Walks Upright http://www.outdooroddities.com/2010/02/12/3-legged-bear-walk-upright/ http://www.outdooroddities.com/2010/02/12/3-legged-bear-walk-upright/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:08:01 +0000 Joe Beitler http://www.outdooroddities.com/?p=971 Here’s a neat video of a black bear that is missing a front leg. She (assumed because of the cub nearby) manages to get around by walking upright on two legs.

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“Jake Sweeney first thought he was looking at a mountain goat while hunting up the North Fork last Friday.

But he looked a closer and then a little closer and realized, there’s no goats in this area.

That’s a bear.

It was a bear all right. An albino black bear. Sweeney, a senior at Columbia Falls high school said he watched the bear for several minutes with hunting companions Jeremy Terillion and Elynden Gravelin to make sure it wasn’t a grizzly.

And then he pulled the trigger.

The bear dropped and was dead.

It took him two days, with the help of Terillion and Gravelin to haul the bear out of the woods. The bruin was just about blind, Sweeney said. He noted that the bear never really saw them.

They were hunting a ridge looking out over a clearing where they had seen some other bears when the albino popped out of a clearing about 114 yards away.

Albino animals out in the woods aren’t entirely uncommon, said Jim Williams, Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks Region One wildlife manager. He said the female bear was about 2 years old, though they won’t know exactly until they get data back on the bear’s tooth.

Albinism is simply a genetic mutation, Williams explained. Black bears normally come in a variety of colors.

Thanks, Hunter.

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Bear Release Gone Bad

Bear Release Gone Bad

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Bear Release Gone Bad

Bear Release Gone Bad

Bear Release Gone Bad

Bear Release Gone Bad

Bear Release Gone Bad

Next Time I take The Pictures!

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Bear in the Woods

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