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<blockquote data-quote="sedancowboy" data-source="post: 2490809" data-attributes="member: 85874"><p>I have more info on this incident. Craig was shed hunting in rough country with a friend. He was a seasoned mountain man in great fiscal shape. He was in country that he was very familiar with and has hunted there many times. We knew when he did not meet his partner at the truck that something was wrong. Craig was prepared and had emergency supplies with him. He had left his pack and snow shoed into a area with new growth dougfir thick as hair on a dogs back. We have had unseasonably warm weather for a few days and the bears have came out of their dens. Craig walked within 6' of a grizzly's day bed and was attacked instantly. There was no chance to deploy gun or bear spray. </p><p>This is where he did nothing wrong. sometimes in wild country, there are risks that we are willing to take. Unfortunately for Craig he just happened upon a Grizzly Bear that did what grizzly's do. Craig was in the grizzly's living room not the other way around.</p><p>This is why we need to delist grizzlys and let the states manage them as wildlife. They have been protected for so long they have no fear of man.</p><p> This area has the highest concentration of grizzlys in the lower 48. Just a few miles of where Craig was killed I have seen 9 grizzlys in one frame of my binos without moving them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sedancowboy, post: 2490809, member: 85874"] I have more info on this incident. Craig was shed hunting in rough country with a friend. He was a seasoned mountain man in great fiscal shape. He was in country that he was very familiar with and has hunted there many times. We knew when he did not meet his partner at the truck that something was wrong. Craig was prepared and had emergency supplies with him. He had left his pack and snow shoed into a area with new growth dougfir thick as hair on a dogs back. We have had unseasonably warm weather for a few days and the bears have came out of their dens. Craig walked within 6' of a grizzly's day bed and was attacked instantly. There was no chance to deploy gun or bear spray. This is where he did nothing wrong. sometimes in wild country, there are risks that we are willing to take. Unfortunately for Craig he just happened upon a Grizzly Bear that did what grizzly's do. Craig was in the grizzly's living room not the other way around. This is why we need to delist grizzlys and let the states manage them as wildlife. They have been protected for so long they have no fear of man. This area has the highest concentration of grizzlys in the lower 48. Just a few miles of where Craig was killed I have seen 9 grizzlys in one frame of my binos without moving them. [/QUOTE]
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