Darn Bear

[olds]

I was just woken up when I heard a noise.
I sat up in bed and listened. I heard a "rubber noise" and LARGE foot steps.
A bear had come up on our back deck and took our trash can. He just picked it up and carried it away. I fired off a round into the air to scare him away. I head him crashing through the trees and dragging or carrying the rubbermaid trash can. He didn't spill a thing between the house and the tree line, about 100'. I didn't go into the tree line. I'll look for the can when it gets light.

Edit:
Went out when it got light. Looks like he bit the can and carried it away.
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[LtPage1]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I was just woken up when I heard a noise.
I sat up in bed and listened. I heard a "rubber noise" and LARGE foot steps.
A bear had come up on our back deck and took our trash can. He just picked it up and carried it away. I fired off a round into the air to scare him away. I head him crashing through the trees and dragging or carrying the rubbermaid trash can. He didn't spill a thing between the house and the tree line, about 100'. I didn't go into the tree line. I'll look for the can when it gets light.

Wow. Where do you live, the 1850s?

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: LtPage1

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I was just woken up when I heard a noise.
I sat up in bed and listened. I heard a "rubber noise" and LARGE foot steps.
A bear had come up on our back deck and took our trash can. He just picked it up and carried it away. I fired off a round into the air to scare him away. I head him crashing through the trees and dragging or carrying the rubbermaid trash can. He didn't spill a thing between the house and the tree line, about 100'. I didn't go into the tree line. I'll look for the can when it gets light.

Wow. Where do you live, the 1850s?

I wish.

 

[13Gigatons]

That wasn't a bear it was Bigfoot.

 

[olds]

Added pics of can

 

[HaiBiss]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
That wasn't a bear it was Bigfoot.

And he was looking for his watch that he lost the night before.

 

[RESmonkey]

What did it want with your trash can? Food scraps?

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: RESmonkey
What did it want with your trash can? Food scraps?

Probably. It's too small for him to make a hot tub out of.

 

[LemonHead]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I was just woken up when I heard a noise.
I sat up in bed and listened. I heard a "rubber noise" and LARGE foot steps.
A bear had come up on our back deck and took our trash can. He just picked it up and carried it away. I fired off a round into the air to scare him away. I head him crashing through the trees and dragging or carrying the rubbermaid trash can. He didn't spill a thing between the house and the tree line, about 100'. I didn't go into the tree line. I'll look for the can when it gets light.

Edit:
Went out when it got light. Looks like he bit the can and carried it away.
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That round has to come down somewhere - not safe.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: LemonHead

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I was just woken up when I heard a noise.
I sat up in bed and listened. I heard a "rubber noise" and LARGE foot steps.
A bear had come up on our back deck and took our trash can. He just picked it up and carried it away. I fired off a round into the air to scare him away. I head him crashing through the trees and dragging or carrying the rubbermaid trash can. He didn't spill a thing between the house and the tree line, about 100'. I didn't go into the tree line. I'll look for the can when it gets light.

Edit:
Went out when it got light. Looks like he bit the can and carried it away.
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That round has to come down somewhere - not safe.

What caliber was the weapon and how close was the nearest house?

 

[LemonHead]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: LemonHead

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I was just woken up when I heard a noise.
I sat up in bed and listened. I heard a "rubber noise" and LARGE foot steps.
A bear had come up on our back deck and took our trash can. He just picked it up and carried it away. I fired off a round into the air to scare him away. I head him crashing through the trees and dragging or carrying the rubbermaid trash can. He didn't spill a thing between the house and the tree line, about 100'. I didn't go into the tree line. I'll look for the can when it gets light.

Edit:
Went out when it got light. Looks like he bit the can and carried it away.
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That round has to come down somewhere - not safe.

What caliber was the weapon and how close was the nearest house?

Just a general rule of gun safety that's all...is it's ok to point a gun at someone as long as it's unloaded?

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: LemonHead

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: LemonHead

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I was just woken up when I heard a noise.
I sat up in bed and listened. I heard a "rubber noise" and LARGE foot steps.
A bear had come up on our back deck and took our trash can. He just picked it up and carried it away. I fired off a round into the air to scare him away. I head him crashing through the trees and dragging or carrying the rubbermaid trash can. He didn't spill a thing between the house and the tree line, about 100'. I didn't go into the tree line. I'll look for the can when it gets light.

Edit:
Went out when it got light. Looks like he bit the can and carried it away.
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That round has to come down somewhere - not safe.

What caliber was the weapon and how close was the nearest house?

Just a general rule of gun safety that's all...is it's ok to point a gun at someone as long as it's unloaded?

:roll:

 

[LemonHead]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: LemonHead

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: LemonHead

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I was just woken up when I heard a noise.
I sat up in bed and listened. I heard a "rubber noise" and LARGE foot steps.
A bear had come up on our back deck and took our trash can. He just picked it up and carried it away. I fired off a round into the air to scare him away. I head him crashing through the trees and dragging or carrying the rubbermaid trash can. He didn't spill a thing between the house and the tree line, about 100'. I didn't go into the tree line. I'll look for the can when it gets light.

Edit:
Went out when it got light. Looks like he bit the can and carried it away.
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That round has to come down somewhere - not safe.

What caliber was the weapon and how close was the nearest house?

Just a general rule of gun safety that's all...is it's ok to point a gun at someone as long as it's unloaded?

:roll:

Hey no need to roll. I'm not trying to stir the pot...guess I'm just a bit more stringent then most when it comes to gun safety. I grew up around guns and it was always drilled into how important it is to be safe. I'm sure you felt it was safe given the are where you live, but as a rule I just don't think it's a good idea to discharge a firearm into the air no mater where you live....ya' just never know.

:beer:

 

[TehMac]

If I point my penis at you, will you drill me in safe sex practices????

 

[bignateyk]

Originally posted by: LemonHead

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I was just woken up when I heard a noise.
I sat up in bed and listened. I heard a "rubber noise" and LARGE foot steps.
A bear had come up on our back deck and took our trash can. He just picked it up and carried it away. I fired off a round into the air to scare him away. I head him crashing through the trees and dragging or carrying the rubbermaid trash can. He didn't spill a thing between the house and the tree line, about 100'. I didn't go into the tree line. I'll look for the can when it gets light.

Edit:
Went out when it got light. Looks like he bit the can and carried it away.
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That round has to come down somewhere - not safe.

The round won't come down at anywhere near the velocity in which it went up. In the off-chance it did strike someone on the way down, it wouldn't likely cause more than a bump on the head.

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: HaiBiss

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
That wasn't a bear it was Bigfoot.

And he was looking for his Jack Link's Beef Jerky that he lost the night before.

fixed.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Move out of the sticks Grizzly Adams.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: bignateyk

Originally posted by: LemonHead

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I was just woken up when I heard a noise.
I sat up in bed and listened. I heard a "rubber noise" and LARGE foot steps.
A bear had come up on our back deck and took our trash can. He just picked it up and carried it away. I fired off a round into the air to scare him away. I head him crashing through the trees and dragging or carrying the rubbermaid trash can. He didn't spill a thing between the house and the tree line, about 100'. I didn't go into the tree line. I'll look for the can when it gets light.

Edit:
Went out when it got light. Looks like he bit the can and carried it away.
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That round has to come down somewhere - not safe.

The round won't come down at anywhere near the velocity in which it went up. In the off-chance it did strike someone on the way down, it wouldn't likely cause more than a bump on the head.

That's not true actually. People have been killed by falling rounds in Los Angeles on New Years Eve.

 

[mattocs]

Originally posted by: bignateyk

Originally posted by: LemonHead

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I was just woken up when I heard a noise.
I sat up in bed and listened. I heard a "rubber noise" and LARGE foot steps.
A bear had come up on our back deck and took our trash can. He just picked it up and carried it away. I fired off a round into the air to scare him away. I head him crashing through the trees and dragging or carrying the rubbermaid trash can. He didn't spill a thing between the house and the tree line, about 100'. I didn't go into the tree line. I'll look for the can when it gets light.

Edit:
Went out when it got light. Looks like he bit the can and carried it away.
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That round has to come down somewhere - not safe.

The round won't come down at anywhere near the velocity in which it went up. In the off-chance it did strike someone on the way down, it wouldn't likely cause more than a bump on the head.

When I lived in Erie, PA some girl got hit in the head from a falling .22 that someone shot off at midnight on new years.. She was in a coma for like a year.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Move out of the sticks Grizzly Adams.

Actually, we are on the first.
No more satellite internet, broadband here we come.

 

[LemonHead]

Originally posted by: TehMac
If I point my penis at you, will you drill me in safe sex practices????

Ya' can't point what you don't have

 

[olds]

I fired a 20 gauge shotgun with #6 shot. I fired it at about an 80 degree angle and the closet house that direction is over two miles away.
I just wanted the BOOM so the bear might leave and not make too big of a mess. I wouldn't do the same with a rifle or hand gun.
We also target shoot on our property.

He actually broke into the neighbor's place a month or so ago.
Scared the hell out of their dogs and made a mess. They found them two weeks later down by the lake near us. The dogs knew they way home but wouldn't go home without their owners.

We sleep with the door from our laundry room to the back porch open. The cans are on the back porch. There was just a screen door between us and the bear.

 

[Turin39789]

Should have tazed him bro

 

[OCGuy]

People who are talking about firing a shot in the air in an area where it is obviously sparsely populated need a head-check. And a lesson in probability. These are most likely the same assholes that think city gun ordinances should apply everywhere in the country. Holy shit.......

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I fired a 20 gauge shotgun with #6 shot. I fired it at about an 80 degree angle and the closet house that direction is over two miles away.I just wanted the BOOM so the bear might leave and not make too big of a mess. I wouldn't do the same with a rifle or hand gun,

He actually broke into the neighbor's place a month or so ago.
Scared the hell out of their dogs and made a mess. They found them two weeks later down by the lake near us. The dogs knew they way home but wouldn't go home without their owners.

We sleep with the door from our laundry room to the back porch open. The cans are on the back porch. There was just a screen door between us and the bear.

No worries with that. :thumbsup: