Got A Bear Problem?
The story is here: Placer-county-man-punches-bear-in-face-to-save-his-dog
Given that TAH is one of the places that exposes Vet Phonies I must point out that I did nothing to verify his credentials.
“A foothills man came face-to-face with a bear outside his home. He didn’t run. He didn’t call wildlife officials.
Instead, he wound up and punched the bear in the face.
Carl Moore is not a guy who scares easily.
“The man or beast that I run from ain’t been born, and his momma’s already dead,” he said.
He’s 73 years old with a wiry frame and one heck of a character. And it turns out he’s also quite a bear fighter.
“I ain’t run from nothing; I never have in my whole life and I ain’t going to start now,” he said. “And you’re not going to sacrifice my babies for some damn bear.”
I simply liked the story. The kicker is in one line: “He’s an ex-first recon Marine,” Sargent said. “He’s been in barroom brawls, all kinda stuff.”
Other than that his dog appears to be safe and intact this is just another story where some media outlet appears to have made no/zero/nil to confirm any part of his story.
There is a video at the link. NO BEAR in sight though. This one of them stories that I hope is true. YMMV!
Category: Geezer Alert!
Sigh,…Why are they always Recon,that dude looks old enough to have landed on the Canal, sick em Scotty, poser alert.
And “First” Recon to boot! “Journalists” really need to go to a class on military matters. First lesson: what is and isn’t an assault weapon.
Was all over the news here this morning…didn’t pay much attention to it.
Well if he is legit, I’d hate to piss him off. LMAO !!!!!!!!!!
I would like it all to be true but I’ll leave it at this: it was an entertaining story.
That is the only reason I posted this.
That sounds like one of “Them-thar’ Tall Tales From the High Hills” I read when i was in grade school! 😀
This guy IS hardcore, he will even talk ’bout your dead momma!
I learned long ago, from a former 1SG of mine, that there is no such thing as an Ex-Marine; only former Marines. So either the guy didn’t bother to inform the reporter of that or he’s full of shit.
more likely the reporter is
I hope it was not a black bear!
Just sayin’!
I believe it may have been a oversized teddy bear. And it looks to be BLACK with some micro BROWN maybe…. (Smiles)
A BLACK Bear? ARE YOU SURE it wasn’t an “African-American Bear”? C’mon, we don’t want to appear to be “racist”, do we? 😀
It’s because it’s black, isn’t it? 🙂
Oh crap, now I’m giggling again.
The enlightened term is “Ursoid of Color”.
I smell Bullshit. I’m betting he has been telling his employees a lot of tall tales.
They are not likely to call you out when you are signing the paychecks.
Maybe they can send him up to Alaska to get the Grizzlies in line alas Timothey Treadwell.
Years ago I was in Ireland visiting family. One day I went to a town market with my uncle, a wiry little guy who probably weighed 130 lbs soaking wet. We were standing there chatting and all of a sudden I noticed a BIG cow charging right at us.
My uncle obviously noticed my look of alarm as I looked over his shoulder and he turned around curiously. Seeing the cow was almost on top of us, he hauled off and smacked the cow in the nose with quite a haymaker for a little guy.
The cow stopped dead in its tracks, gave a very loud “MOOOOOO!” and ran in the other direction.
Not exactly a bear, but it just shows it can be done.
Good story, especially for us old geezers!
Are we being told to grin and bear it?
or mooooove it! lol
If you find yourself in a position to have to fight a bear, remember two things.
1. You can hurt a bear like you hurt a man. Punch him in the nose, gouge him in the eyes, break his jaw, break his ribs.
2. A bear that weights only what a man does is small for a bear, but more than a match for a man, so fighting even a small bear is done only as a last resort.
Bear Stories Since bears are bigger and heavier than people, everything in their skeletal structure is bigger and heavier to hold it all up. I am dubious that a human could break any bones on a bear with anything less than an axe and that is close combat with a 500 to 1,000 pound opponent with big gnarly teeth and (if spring) long claws who is much stronger than you. No thanks. Bears don’t see very well but their nose and ears are very good — much better than yours and mine. Both brown and black bears can outrun a horse for a short distance. Black bears can do it further – several hundred yards – a brown bear can do it for 1 or 2 hundred yards. If you cannot outrun a horse, then you cannot outrun a bear. You cannot outrun a horse. Two guys see a bear. The bear charges. One guy stops to put on running shoes. The other guy says, “What are you doing? You cannot outrun that bear!” Reply, “I don’t have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you!” Old joke partly true. Brown bears cannot climb trees, black bears can climb trees. Better than you. Brown bears don’t have to climb trees, they can probably just push it over – then you look like a popsicle. A sow with cubs is potentially very dangerous. While deer hunting, I walked past a sow with a cub and she was making noises – not yummy noises. She did not charge me and I did not have to shoot her and I was pretty happy about that. That was Prince of Wales Island, about 1988. Used to be that Alaska department of fish and game guys carried shotguns in bear country – the first round was birdshot for the face and the rest were slugs. When I lived there and when appropriate I carried a Winchester model 70 in 375 H&H. I never shot a bear and I don’t want to but I wasn’t going to die either. I fished with bears on… Read more »
Sorry, I wasn’t specific enough. I should have indicated that I meant fighting to hurt a bear that was man-size or smaller. Obviously, if you attempt to brawl with a 700 pound bruin, you’re going to end up as bear sushi.
One hunter in the NW (I forget exactly where, it’s been a few years ago now) used a hunting knife to kill a grizzly that attacked him over an elk. It wasn’t by choice; the man had leaned his rifle against a tree about ten yards from his elk, and the bear cut him off before he could get to it. The hunter survived — and amazingly, kept all his parts — but he was a walking pile of sutures and bandages for awhile.
Elmer Keith, the father of the .44 Magnum, told a story about guiding a fella on a bear hunt – one of them shot a bear, which then charged him. The other hunter on the other side of the draw shot the bear, which turned around and charged HIM. They kept shooting him, and he kept charging, until they had dumped almost a full box of .375 H&Hs into him, when he finally expired. None of the shots was placed poorly – a bear in a bad mood can be TOUGH. (.375 H7H is an older but still damn good elephant round.)
My mother – in – law once chased off a bear with a small tree branch. She doesn’t have very good eyesight and thought that it was my father-in-law playing a prank on her.
2 hunters were sharing a cabin on a bear hunt, one left to find a bear, pretty soon, he came running back yelling “open the doors, open the doors” the other hunter opened front and back doors and the hunter being chased by the bear yelled as he was running through the cabin…”you take this one, I’ll get me another”! lol
From the movie “Jeremiah Johnson” with Robert Redford.