Nah, Joe, it was bad indigestion from someone he ate - probably the first one who shot him with a .22.

The Bella Twin story is legendary!
I once heard of an old Yupik man when I was in Alaska who hunted polar bear with a .25-20 Winchester 1892.
Though, there was some prep work. They'd sharpen the ends of a large bone, boil it until it was malleable, bend the edges together, freeze it and slather it in blood and loose pieces of meat. The bear would find and swallow it, the bone would that in it's stomach, un bending and slicing its stomach. 
.25-20 was just to put it out of misery.

So the story goes, at least.

When Groucho supposedly originated that joke, it was an elephant rather than an alligator.  Still a great joke.

Bill Lawrence

I wonder if she had fumble fingers, loading each of those 7 shots one at a time 

We have lots of grizz up by my cabin.  The last one I spotted by accident while lying on my stomach peering into the septic tank trying to figure out how to get the broken pump out.  I heard a sound and noticed a grizz only 20 feet behind me.  Fortunately he was preoccupied with some berry bushes. Probably best I didn't have the old .22 Cooey with me   

Chris.

westerner wrote on Dec 30^th, 2022 at 3:21am:


I was eaten alive .   

Actually there was a good breeze going from the grizz to me so I guess somehow it didn't notice me.  I just stood up very slowly and carefully snuck up the hill to the cabin. Once I got to the cabin porch I yelled at it.  It then casually wandered off to the north.  Lucky too because I didn't have 7 .22 LR shells

Chris.

Chris,
Back in the 1980's three of us drove up to B.C. to be taken into a remote lake for a fishing trip. The 11 mile drive into the lake took 3 hours by 4x4, and when we arrived we heard a commotion. We looked to see where all the hollering came from and saw an old fella chasing a 200 lb. black bear with a broom, and swatting it on the rear as he yelled at it!
Once he returned we found out he was the caretaker, and we asked if bears were a problem? He told us most stayed away, but this young one hadn't learned to stay away yet, and that he ran it out of camp about every other day.
We were there four days, and watched this bear-broom thing twice more before our trip ended.

Yeah black bears are usually not a big problem.  Pretty much all of them I've seen go away when you shout at them or throw rocks.  I was at the range one day, early, so I could clear a little bit of brush for prone shooting.  I looked up and silhouetted against the target frames was a young mama black bear.  I have no idea whether there were 3 or 4 cubs because they were playing and zooming in and out of the bush so fast I couldn't keep track.  I yelled at the mama bear and she abandoned her cubs and ran into the bush.  I backed off a hundred yards or so and just watched them all playing .

The septic pump was easy.  The place doesn't get used too much so the tank wasn't stinky.  The guy who installed the system had it set up so all I needed to do was remove a fitting, cut a few straps, and haul it out on a rope he attached.  Lucky for me the impeller was just jammed so it was a quick fix.  Good thing because the nearest town with a bona fide plumber is 2 hours away.

Chris.