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<blockquote data-quote="D.Camilleri" data-source="post: 1599646" data-attributes="member: 2567"><p>A few years back I was elk hunting outside Dubois, WY, I went to an area that I had heard some bull elk bugling a week earlier before it snowed and started checking some parks. In one small park I saw something partially covered with snow, I thought maybe it was a moose that a Griz had killed, so I went to high alert, 338 rum locked and loaded finger on the safety. I got up to the hair and couldn't figure out what it was, until I found the ears! It was a grizzly. The skull and paws had been taken by game and fish. I later found out that a hunter had killed the griz in self defense. </p><p>A few years later, same area, I was telling this story around a camp fire to some other hunters, when all of the sudden a hunter pipes up and says, I was the one the bear charged! He was hunting the area the day after I was there, he saw a sow griz with two cubs, he radioed his brother to give him a heads up that the griz was walking in his direction when all of the sudden the bear charged him from around 50 yards. The hunter tried to put a tree between him and the bear and shot the bear once with a 300 win mag at point blank range killing it instantly. Later I found out that wolves killed the two yearling cubs later that winter. Not every hunter could do what this hunter did and maybe he couldn't do it 4 out of 5 times, but he made the shot count and got to live to tell the story. Mindset plays a big part, planning on what you would do ahead in your mind, similar to a law enforcement officer responding to an armed robbery in progress, make the wrong decision and you could be dead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="D.Camilleri, post: 1599646, member: 2567"] A few years back I was elk hunting outside Dubois, WY, I went to an area that I had heard some bull elk bugling a week earlier before it snowed and started checking some parks. In one small park I saw something partially covered with snow, I thought maybe it was a moose that a Griz had killed, so I went to high alert, 338 rum locked and loaded finger on the safety. I got up to the hair and couldn't figure out what it was, until I found the ears! It was a grizzly. The skull and paws had been taken by game and fish. I later found out that a hunter had killed the griz in self defense. A few years later, same area, I was telling this story around a camp fire to some other hunters, when all of the sudden a hunter pipes up and says, I was the one the bear charged! He was hunting the area the day after I was there, he saw a sow griz with two cubs, he radioed his brother to give him a heads up that the griz was walking in his direction when all of the sudden the bear charged him from around 50 yards. The hunter tried to put a tree between him and the bear and shot the bear once with a 300 win mag at point blank range killing it instantly. Later I found out that wolves killed the two yearling cubs later that winter. Not every hunter could do what this hunter did and maybe he couldn't do it 4 out of 5 times, but he made the shot count and got to live to tell the story. Mindset plays a big part, planning on what you would do ahead in your mind, similar to a law enforcement officer responding to an armed robbery in progress, make the wrong decision and you could be dead. [/QUOTE]
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