700lb bear was shot / not killed by combine

  • Don Hanson
    Posts: 2073
    January 30, 2009 at 4:32 pm #47059

    Unreal, I have no idea why anyone would do that. He is no sportsman!

    mpearson
    Chippewa Falls, WI
    Posts: 4338
    January 30, 2009 at 5:00 pm #47060

    The funny part was when they thought they could buy a bear tag “over the counter” after he shot it!

    gobbler
    Central, MN
    Posts: 1110
    January 30, 2009 at 5:42 pm #47061

    i hope they take the guys hunting rights away for life or ban him from hunting somehow? This is the type of thing that give “hunters” a bad name.

    ragerunner
    Winona, MN
    Posts: 699
    January 30, 2009 at 7:09 pm #47062

    This sounds like a pretty bad story, but we shouldn’t cast stones before we know both sides.

    Maybe he was deer hunting and the beast got a little too close. I would personally challege it to a foot race, but maybe the guy was defending himself.

    Albeit unlikely, there may be more to the story than a newspaper publishes.

    Either way, it’s too bad a trophy had to die like that.

    mpearson
    Chippewa Falls, WI
    Posts: 4338
    January 30, 2009 at 8:12 pm #47066

    Sounds like he confessed to shooting it in it’s den so I doubt he was trying to defend himself! He probably saw it in the corn field and went to investigate…figured it was huge and decided to shoot and ask questions later….like can I buy a bear license over the counter after I kill it!!!

    muskyman
    Arkansaw, Wisconsin
    Posts: 945
    January 30, 2009 at 9:11 pm #47069

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    but we shouldn’t cast stones before we know both sides.

    Exactly! I know a guy that hunts with this guy. Way bac when this bear was shot he had told me the guy was still hunting the corn field one day. He looked down the rows one by one. He spotted what appeared to be a deer laying down, which turned out to be the top 1/3 of the bear. He shot and when he got up to it he paniced, that is why they tried to buy a bear license. Not knowing what to do they just left it and the next day the farmer hit it with the combine. I see it as a mistake, none of us are perfect.
    I know we are all taught to make sure of our target and beyond but with limited visibility in a cornfield and not knowing that bear will den up in cornfields I could see how someones mind would convince them 100% that he was looking at a deer.
    I believe they should punish him how they see fit.

    big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 22458
    January 30, 2009 at 10:28 pm #47071

    I thought it was shot twice ????

    big G

    muskyman
    Arkansaw, Wisconsin
    Posts: 945
    January 30, 2009 at 11:14 pm #47075

    I do believe it was still breathing when he came upon it, if my memory is correct, so it was put out of it’s misery. But this is my memory we’re talking about G, heck I can’t even remember what I had for supper last night.

    mpearson
    Chippewa Falls, WI
    Posts: 4338
    January 31, 2009 at 12:38 am #47076

    If that is the case then he made a serious mistake by not reporting it when it happened. I guess it’s going to be a hard lesson learned for him.

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