Fred Eichler of Easton Bowhunting TV and his hunting party were travelling down a remote river by raft when they were charged by a huge mother grizzly bear.
The hunters had startled the mother’s cubs while rounding a bend in the river. Eichler tried to scare the cubs away, but he drew the attention of their mother.
Ready to defend her cubs, the huge grizzly charged into the river after the raft. With only eight feet between them, Eichler made a quick move to stop the momma grizz from coming any closer. Watch what he did.
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JMO, but I think we've got a "missed the shot" rather than a "discharged into the water in front of the bear". Desired outcome, but... I can't imagine an experienced hunter figuring he was going to get a second shot, this time for real, if the bear wasn't frightened off by the first shot.
ReplyDeleteYou may well be right. I hadn't thought of that.
DeleteI thought the same thing. He fired as soon as his pistol "cleared leather". That's all the time he had. If you go to a concealed carry school one thing they often do is have someone with a toy gun in a holster and another guy standing 20 feet from him. On command the unarmed man rushes the guy with the gun. The man running almost always gets to him before he can draw and pull the trigger. A mad mama bear is a hell of a lot faster than a man.
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine was deer hunting with a muzzle loader (one shot for those that might not know). he was sitting on the back side of a ditch bank of a timber road concealed behind a bush. As he sat waiting for a deer to come out a black bear came walking down the road. She got to where he had walked across the road and picked up his scent. He said she walked over to the edge of the ditch and leaned out sticking her
head right into the bush he was hiding behind and snorted a few times. He said, knowing he only had one shot he was afraid to shoot so he just sat still keeping his only shot as a last resort. He said in a few seconds she turned and walked off.
He told me that, then paused for a few seconds and said...."Damn that thing had some bad breath!".
:) Guess he had to change his underwear after that.
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