Grizzly attacks man apox. 50 miles north of Calgary

https://www.airdriecityview.co...-bear-attack-9463584

About time we dropped this rare thing, it's becoming all too common. I can think of at least three in my immediate area over the last several years, close to averaging one a year . This one happened about 25 miles from where I live, definitely not backwoods. Sounds like he was calling elk , bow hunting ?, and got a surprise, he did have bear spray and used it, according to his wife. Bear Smart, a reporting service for bear sightings , reported a Grizzly, in a hay field East of my local community hall a couple of weeks ago.

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About time we dropped this rare thing

I guess I need to start using a sarcasm tag.

UDAP bear spray works...unless the bear is coming from the same direction as a stiff breeze.

Even a 22lr/38 Spl/9mm will cause a bear to lose interest fast and go back to her cubs.

For other bears w/o cubs I prefer an early Winchester Model 71 in 450 Alaskan. It cuts the rehab time down.

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UDAP bear spray works...unless the bear is coming from the same direction as a stiff breeze.

Stiff wind coming at you is just one of the things to cause b ear spray to fail.

Personally I do not think spray works very well.

Against aggressive bears.

So i wonder if the first person on the Problem Bear list of hunters was called up to dispatch it?

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Originally posted by Bryce Dillabough:
So i wonder if the first person on the Problem Bear list of hunters was called up to dispatch it?

Bryce....read about that plan, but did it actually receive official approval?

Well, Well.what a surprise.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/week...inked-015007446.html

Modern city folks and so called biologist's.

For get about thousands of years of humans interacting with animals.

Routinely dangerous animals were killed. Even domestic ones that proved to dangerous to handle.

Many a stud, boar or bull was shipped or killed because they became to dangerous.

A story from back on the farm.

One day dad came rushing in grapping his 99 300sav. Loading it as he went.

The neighbors stud horse and broken out and was in the yard trying to get at our mares.

He had put the rush on dad.

If the neighbor hadn't drove in as dad was going out. It was going to be a very dead horse.

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Originally posted by Skyline:

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Originally posted by Bryce Dillabough:
So i wonder if the first person on the Problem Bear list of hunters was called up to dispatch it?

Bryce....read about that plan, but did it actually receive official approval?

I submitted my "application" but never heard anything back. Someone my brother knows said he received a message saying he was Selected. Not sure if it needed any other official approval beyond the Provincial Government issuing the mandate and sending out the application process to hunters on the Relm site.

I guess we will find out soon enough, but it surprises me that the media is not immediately questioning whether this new way of dealing with Grizzlies is going to be used on this case. One story made it sound like Fish and Wildlife was going to kill the bear as long as they could find it and they are actively looking for it.

Will be interesting to see how they address this then. I suspect it will be the game department that takes care of this bear due to the circumstances.

Growing up, I always heard there was no documented wolf attacks on humans either and now we’re being told you have to travel in groups of people making lots of noise to prevent bear attacks

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Originally posted by anukpuk:
Growing up, I always heard there was no documented wolf attacks on humans either and now we’re being told you have to travel in groups of people making lots of noise to prevent bear attacks

Wasn't that hilarious?!
We have been told the same: "No documented wolf attacks in humans in history". I don't know who believed this ever

There is a reason people feared wolf and bear. It's absolutely mind-blowing that modern city people act like people made this up in the past-

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It's absolutely mind-blowing that modern city people act like people made this up in the past-

New paganism

Another one today in the south part of the province, haven't heard the details.

Not many details yet.

https://calgaryherald.com/news...ar-in-crowsnest-pass

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Originally posted by Skyline:
Will be interesting to see how they address this then. I suspect it will be the game department that takes care of this bear due to the circumstances.

we can all dream that this is the first step to open back really grizzly bear hunting in alberta ...

A sow with three cubs dining on some idiot's elk carcass a few km. from my place, near a hamlet called Bergen. Buddy claims F&W is trying to make a genetic connection between her and the Madden attack.

From the size I would say more like two year old's then cubs.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:
From the size I would say more like two year old's then cubs.

Report from the initial attack claimed they were almost as big as her, which would fit, also sows with three cubs that age are relatively uncommon.