Bear hunt

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I understand bear hunts. I've hunted them. I never shot one, but I did hunt for them.

Until I read this story, I never put a "face" on the whole thing, or thought too much about it. This story makes me feel a lot differently than I did.

The hunters did nothing wrong. They were legally hunting, and the bear was legally shot. The sad part is, this bear wasn't really in tune with the wild, and didn't really fear humans like it should, because it had known humans, and interacted with them enough, that it didn't consider us "predators."

What scares me is that we are predators. We've replaced the T-Rex on land.

www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15075332

[amoeba15]

Tis, indeed, very sad.

Fortunately, I DO NOT hunt..I drink.

The ONLY thing that I hunted in the past few years, was a chipmunk that somehow got into my home.

I got out my BB gun and waited for the chipmunk, who was hiding, to make his move. As soon as I saw the critter, I aimed and pulled the trigger, missed and then the BB went everywhere.

I then put a couple of glue traps on the floor, but the critter started running around stuck with the glue trap. Sooooooo, I put a few more glue traps in his path and NOW, the chipmunk is running all over the place with 3 glue traps attached to his body. Finally, I dropped a 25 pound weight on the glue traps and in doing so, the glue traps were stuck to the floor and the chipmunk became free and took off running.

After the Amoeba hunting skills within me failed, I went to Lowe's, purchased a Hav-a-heart trap, caught and released the chipmunk within 24 hours.

What did I learn?

Never go hunting while sober.

[TW]

You could make a one-hour "how not to do it" special out of that one. It's worthy of an episode on The Big Bang Theory, with Sheldon being the one going through what you did!