he man, whose name is not being released, was hunting near the American River on Friday about 15 miles outside Kodiak when the sow charged him, said John Crye, a wildlife biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, on Monday.
The hunter, who was carrying two weapons, shot the bear when it was about 10 yards away.
It was the second time in a week that hunters had encountered the family of bears. The last time it was one of the cubs that charged a father and son out duck hunting as the mother and the other cubs slept nearby.
This time, the hare hunter was charged after he rounded a corner and surprised the sow, who was 25 years old or more.
"A rabbit hunter was in the brush and kind of woke them up out of their beds," Crye said. "He felt threatened by the sow, so he shot the sow."
The hunter immediately notified Alaska State Troopers and the Department of Fish and Game. Crye went with troopers to the site where the 8-foot, 400-pound sow lay barely alive.
It was determined that she was too badly injured and would have to be killed, so she was shot again.
The cubs, two males and a female weighing about 140 pounds each, were shot as well because they were too young to survive on their own and too old at nearly 2 years to be good candidates for zoo placement."
Damn shame the cubs had to be killed, but better this way then being eaten alive. And don't you just wish that for ONCE a journalist would see the real news in a story and comment upon how a hare handgun could put down a bear? I'll presume the man was a good shot and hit the creature square in the vitals but it'd be cool to know what caliber, type of rounds, etc. Hare hunting means he couldn't have had something all that powerful. And if he DID, the Yellowstreamer doing the story would have been certain to mention HIGH-POWERED-RIFLE...or ASSAULT, MILITARY-STYLE AUTOMATIC HANDGUN.
Betcha it was a Redhawk or Blackhawk...
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