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<blockquote data-quote="Straight Shooter" data-source="post: 1809024" data-attributes="member: 42638"><p>That incident was on the south fork of the Flathead. They had trapped the bear over on the east side by East Glacier. My mother-in-law had talked to the game warden that morning. There was an outdoor writers convention in Kalispell that week and a couple of guys asked if they could go along on the release with their cameras. They followed the pickup pulling the culvert trap. When the warden climbed on the trap he pulled the door up about halfway and the bear stuck his head through and pulled up and jammed the door. As the bear tried to get out and the warden tried to dislodge it the door finally popped up. The bear came out and turned around and just hammered the side of the culvert with a haymaker which knocked the warden off. The warden said "I was already clearing leather on my way to the ground ". As the bear got on him he emptied his .357 magnum into him. He figured it was his last shot that finally killed the bear. He suffered two broken legs. The guys in the pickup behind them were taking pictures, but it happened so fast there was nothing they could do. The pictures were in the October edition of Outdoor Life that year. Don't ask me what year, but if was in the 80s.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Straight Shooter, post: 1809024, member: 42638"] That incident was on the south fork of the Flathead. They had trapped the bear over on the east side by East Glacier. My mother-in-law had talked to the game warden that morning. There was an outdoor writers convention in Kalispell that week and a couple of guys asked if they could go along on the release with their cameras. They followed the pickup pulling the culvert trap. When the warden climbed on the trap he pulled the door up about halfway and the bear stuck his head through and pulled up and jammed the door. As the bear tried to get out and the warden tried to dislodge it the door finally popped up. The bear came out and turned around and just hammered the side of the culvert with a haymaker which knocked the warden off. The warden said "I was already clearing leather on my way to the ground ". As the bear got on him he emptied his .357 magnum into him. He figured it was his last shot that finally killed the bear. He suffered two broken legs. The guys in the pickup behind them were taking pictures, but it happened so fast there was nothing they could do. The pictures were in the October edition of Outdoor Life that year. Don't ask me what year, but if was in the 80s. [/QUOTE]
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