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After many years of studying bear attack the andwser should be Yes.

AK: Aggressive black bears deserve to be eliminated
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McKnight then told about an encounter with a black bear that approached his tent in northern Alaska.

He opened the flap, and there was the bear. The biologist fired a warning shot across its nose.

The bear simply ignored the warning shot and stared at McKnight. McKnight said the look sent a chill up his spine.

At that point, the biologist did the sensible thing. He stopped wasting ammunition and shot the bear dead.

Alaska, like much of North America, has lots and lots of black bears.

Killing the extremely rare bear that looks at people as potential food is not simply justifiable, it's sensible.

And the study that really turned me on my ear was about how if you slam your thumb with a sledge it will oftentimes hurt..hell I would have never thunk it.
I mean where do they find these guys??? we are so lucky to have the kinds of brains working for us to help keep us all safe from harm.

In all honesty though the trick is to not wait until the bastards see us as food, but instead begin educating them at an earlier stage so that it never gets to that point.

I like bears. I respect bears. I do not invade bear country without a firearm. I give them a very wide berth. But! should they get frisky with me they are going down. I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried out by six.

I like bears too.
They taste really freakin good!

I'll have no issue at all killing a bear in such an encounter.

Can't understand why anyone wouldn't.
Frankly, I don't know what he was thinking with the 'warning shot'

"OK, mister bear. This is my revolver. I'm going to shoot you with this (bang, bang) if you don't get back over there by my ice chest and leave me alone..."


--Tinker

I like hunting bears so the more the marrier. As to biologists I think they have exceeded the carrying capacity of the habitat.

and to think... some folks actually seem to puzzle over this?!

saw a specal on the t.v the other night about
a tim treadway wannabe that went to feeding and petting black bears and griz in his backyard in alaska.he was slapping wild bears across the snout when correcting behavior,and had the same "they won't hurt me cause they can sense i won't hurt them and we are brothers and kindred spirits and it won't be long till i'm a steaming pile of kindred flavored bear shit.
takes all kinds i guess.
i vote yes on killing aggressive bears,very dispursed range all across the U.S. biggest predator we humans come in contact with on a regular basis wheather you live rural or suburbs
they can kill,main,injure any sized human quick.
no room for them in my world

There's room for them in my world --

In my freezer, and as rugs in my parlour, my children's bedrooms, and as a throw on my bed!


--Tinker

Only a Liberal would have issues with this.
Rational prople shoot the Bear, DEAD.

Don

interesting article about this in my towns papper today "adn.com"

When bears are overpopulated and have to compete with each other for there food source they become natureally more agressive with each other and with us as well.

I have what someone recently called a "sick attitude" about bears.

That was about my stated position that any bear that I don't see as "asshole & elbows" trying hard to be somewhere else once it becomes aware of my presence is gonna die. PERIOD.

I won't shoot a bear in the ass, but if it is nose towards me and not turning away I will kill it.

I have looked a bear (black bear) in the eye (through gunsights, safety off, finger on the trigger) on two
seperate occasions, and a third occasion when I had no firearm.

The twice with a gun they were on both occasions obviously trying with their poor eyesight to figuire out what I was when the wind shifted and it scented "human!" and the bears each made the same choice; to make a full-throttle retreat. correct choice.

The other time the bear KNEW what I was and still didn't run
But it changed it's mind when I growled and moved
towards it... to this day I regret not killing that bear,
even though my only weapon was a KaBar knife.

Though in truth I regret leaving my 10mm locked in the
truck more.

If the bear had not bugged-out when it did I would have charged it.

Why?

I was out berry-picking and I was between the bear and
the two young daughters of my girlfriend at the time.
My backing down simply wasn't an option, and it wasn't one I even thought of, I was simply calculating "how" to kill the bear, not "if" I should.

I'm not sure how messed up I would have been, but for the bear it was gonna be fatal.

If I had been carrying a firearm that bear wouldn't have been given a chance to leave, change it's mind or even think about it. warning shots are nothing more than wasted ammunition.

I consider a bear that is even slightly indecisive about bugging out when I encounter it (while alone) to be a potentially dangerous bear. it's thinking about it, I don't want it thinking, I want it to be REACTING.

I want bears to have the following choices in their "encounter human choices menu":
a)Run away
b)Run away fast
c)Run away FASTER
d)all of the above

If killing all bears with any different menu choices is required to accomplish that so be it.

to borrow a liberal phrase "Do it for the children"

AD

There is no shortage of black bears.....

If they don't fear me and run away.....their numbers should decrease by at least one!