Log this bear: dead

Esav Benyamin

Esav Benyamin

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Small bear, lucky shot, VERY lucky family. But it didn't have to happen.

Man kills bear with log at Ga. camp site

A 300-pound black bear raided a family's campsite, and the father saved his sons from harm by throwing a log at the beast, killing it with a single blow.

Chris Everhart and his three sons were camping in the Chattahoochee National Forest in northern Georgia when the encounter happened Saturday. The bear took the family's cooler and was heading back to the woods when the youngest son, 6-year-old Logan, hurled a shovel at it.

The bear then dropped the cooler and started coming at the boy, said his father. Fearing what might happen next, Everhart, an ex-Marine, grabbed the closest thing he could find — a log from their stash of firewood.

"(I) threw it at it and it happened to hit the bear in the head," Everhart said. "I thought it just knocked it out but it actually ended up killing the bear."
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Here's the part where he was wrong.

Everhart was given a ticket for failing to secure his camp site, said Ken Riddleberger, a region supervisor for game management with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

"We've not had an attack in Georgia," Riddleberger said. "The key thing to learn from this is if there's a bear around, do not have your garbage or food available. If we manage our food, we won't have bears around."
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So if you are camping, never eat? It sounds like the bear came in the campsite during broad daylight- how do we know it wasn't lunchtime?
 
Jeez, i'm just wondering how big this guy is. I mean he threw a fire wood log and killed the bear. That is damn impressive. :thumbup:
 
Nice moves. :) This just goes to prove what many people already knew: that in spite of those who would claim otherwise - mostly because of being out of touch with nature and its realities - animals, even predatory ones, are not the unstoppable death machines many people believe them to be. They bleed and they die just like we do, be they dogs, wolves, bears or elk. Even so, I wouldn't want to face a bear only armed with a wooden log. :D

But back to the bonfires and booze now! Happy midsummer to y'all! :)

Okay, I just had to add this: next time we go out in bear territory, let's not forget to bring along our survival logs! ;)
 
I always tell my wife to keep the bacon in the sleeping bag with her so the bears won't find it outside in the cooler.:eek:
 
Wow, that's caveman-badass. Good for that guy. I bet he gets free drinks for life now.

Bears aren't so tough. The last bear that charged me, I was all: :grumpy: so I decapitated it with a single karate-chop. I think it was a kodiak, a puny 800 pounds or so. You should have seen the look on the bear's face as it rolled into the underbrush. It looked sorta like this: :eek:
My wife: :confused: She wondered why I would pick on an innocent creature. And I was: :yawn: Not much of challenge, if you ask me. I prefer bare-fisted hippo boxing myself.
 
He should have taught his kid better than to fling a shovel at a bear. They probably could have scared it off and gotten their cooler back, no harm, no foul.
 
That is one tough mofo.................

or else the bear died laughing.

Syn
 
The kid probably hit the furry quadruped with a CS badaxe/shovel in a main vein canceling his act. The dad's kindling to the noggin was grandstanding. :)

oregon
 
Elen said:
Nice moves. :)
Okay, I just had to add this: next time we go out in bear territory, let's not forget to bring along our survival logs! ;)
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I'm sure that they will find mine lined up and still steaming in my boxer briefs :eek:
 
Gee. Without Riddleberger speaking in circles, we wouldn't know how to conduct ourselves in the woods. I always appreciate it when one of these types appears on the scene and explains to us idiots a "key thing to learn". He also saw the wisdom in citing someone for defending themselves.:confused: Regards,ss.
 
straitshot said:
Gee. Without Riddleberger speaking in circles, we wouldn't know how to conduct ourselves in the woods. I always appreciate it when one of these types appears on the scene and explains to us idiots a "key thing to learn". He also saw the wisdom in citing someone for defending themselves.:confused: Regards,ss.
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The bear slayer should frame the ticket and keep it as a badge of honor. Doubt that he would be allowed to keep the bear.

Tough family, man and boy. Gonna be hard for the kid to get away with anything now though. His Mom will say something like, "don't make me have to tell your dad, remember what happened to the bear when he was bad."

oregon
 
I wish I was attacked by a bear , I could test out my weapons and skills. But every time I meet one , even face to face at 10' they have ignored me !! I guess I just don't look like a big mac ! All eating, food prep and storage should be done at least 50 yds from your camp.Bears have an extraordinary sense of smell and they will smell the food.
 
Hey Guys....

A 300 lb bear is or can be a fairly formidable beast..
I've seen smaller bear take multiple hits with a .308 and keep going.. A friend of mine shot one in the face 9 times with a .380 auto before it fell out of the tree he was in...

Even a small bear is Many time stronger than a human...

Esav..

If we were being attacked by a black bear.. I wouldn't have to outrun it.. I'd just have to outrun YOU!! :)

Good story!! Lucky strike!!

ttyle

Eric
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What kind of knife could withstand this guy batoning it? Geez...if he can kill a bear he must be murder on his blades...:D
 
Tidefan this guy doesnt use blades, he just hits the things he wants cut. He probably tears off chunks of 550 cord with his teeth. I bet he laces his boots with barbed-wire.
 
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