Hunters Murder Two Bears, Then Whine About Injuries

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Wildlife Photography ©Jim Robertson, 2013. All Rights Reserved

Wildlife Photography ©Jim Robertson, 2013. All Rights Reserved

Alright, I’ve had enough of this one-sided, narcissistic reporting!

Do I have to point out to the AP that their article completely missed the point here by making a hunter the victim of the story? They report that an hour after wounding the bear with an arrow… “The hunter located the wounded bear and shot it twice more with his bow. The bear then ran down the hill and encountered a man who had arrived to assist the hunter.”

WTF? How much suffering does a non-human animal have to go through before her plight is even considered by the media and she’s seen as the victim? Here’s how the AP titled the article:

Injured black bear injures hunter near Thompson Falls

Associated Press

KALISPELL — State wildlife officials say a 150-pound female black bear wounded by a bow hunter bit the arm of the hunter’s companion before succumbing to its injuries.

Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman John Fraley says a man was hunting near Thompson Falls on Tuesday when he shot a black bear with a bow and arrow.

The hunter waited for several hours to make sure the bear was dead before he started tracking it. The hunter located the wounded bear and shot it twice more with his bow. The bear then ran down the hill and encountered a man who had arrived to assist the hunter. The bear bit the second man’s arm before it died.

The injured man was treated at the hospital in Plains and released.

FWP says the hunter legally tagged the bear.

….and here’s another article with the same slant, which also ends with a dead bear. Note that the real victim was just out eating berries…

September 11, 2013 at 2:43 PM

Shots from other hunters halted grizzly attack in Alaska

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ANCHORAGE (AP) — An Alaska grizzly bear wounded by a Rhode Island hunter survived more than 90 minutes before attacking the man and slashing his head.

Alaska State Troopers say John Matson sustained injuries Monday to his head and body. The wounds were not considered life-threatening.

Troopers tell the Anchorage Daily News that Matson was hunting with another hunter and an assistant guide.

Matson shot a bear feeding on berries. The bear rolled into brush but popped out and ran.

The hunters waited about 90 minutes before going into thick cover after the bear.

Troopers say the assistant guide heard Matson scream as the bear attacked. The other men fired shots and the bear ran off.

The men walked about a mile to their camp. Matson was flown Tuesday to Anchorage

43 thoughts on “Hunters Murder Two Bears, Then Whine About Injuries”

  3. I certainly hope they get Rabie shots just to make sure they’re OK ! 🙂
    Jim, here’s a story from 2007 of a hunter who met his match, of a bear who got his revenge !
    http:www.readthehook.com/185446/cover-survivor-man-meets-600-pound-black-bear

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  5. Poor bears! I have had bear encounters in my woods and they are just frightened little black bears. All the pussy, armed to the teeth, big, bad hunters say “did you get him?” I say “No, the memory card was full!” I don’t carry a weapon, just a walking stick and a camera and a bottle of water. If you are not afraid, the animals know that. I had a nice conversation with a little doe yesterday. If your body doesn’t smell of excitement or fear, the animals relax because you are just another animal to them. I like to sit on a stone or ground and be still and quiet. I just let the animals get used to me. It is the same as with rescued, abused wolves, just sit in the enclosure. They are more timid than rabbits. When they come up, they smell your breath. I have never been bitten by a wolf. Eventually, I talk to animals like a young horse being worked with the first time, soft, like the wind in the treetops. No wild creature has ever been afraid of me or bitten or otherwise harmed me. I know you all get this. I’m just hoping I convince at least one person to walk into the woods and leave any aggressive human behavior behind and just enjoy being there. If there are animals who approach you aggressively, try to leave their area safely. Burn your hat or t shirt on the end of your walking stick. Be careful of sparks!
    More t-storms here, better post while I can! Anyway, if I was that bear, I would have bitten those bow hunters too!

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  8. I know it’s uncharitable to say, but I wish lots of intense suffering on the mentally and emotionally deranged humans who perpetrate crimes on bears and other animals. They’re too stupid even to be ashamed. Do I sound contemptuous towards them? I am.

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  9. disgusting. at least they got in a few swats before dying or suviving to suffer further. f’g morons. thanks for your insightful comments.

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  10. Bears are big and a tough animal to kill with bow and arrow. It must be a horribly painful death for the poor things. I think most people put the actual specifics of that out of their heads when they think of hunting. It’s a horrible thought but maybe people need to see the suffering they go through then they to will think differently of hunting.
    Also online at psychology today magazine they have some very good articles on the sick mentality of hunters and those that enjoy killing animals. We must all work together to end hunting and save our wildlife.

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  11. Very Sick of this horror and abuse these monsters are inflicting on the animals and our mental and emotional health..The communities that still make these babaric insanities acceptable through media really need to be outed on some kind of campaign list to expose their media’s apathy and ignorance the Hunters are actually only 2-5% of the population in any given communty, yet they make all the Wildlife management rules????/,we have to make people realize this.!!.

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      • Good question, Jim! But from what I hear, the radio collars will be cut off by those who know what they are doing and probably duct taped to a bus? 🙂 I hope and pray that goes well! Without radio collars, the wolves will be harder to track for the slob hunters. You really have to wonder if the whole wolf reintroduction wasn’t just a set up from the beginning? Now those trophy hunters on the state boards that waited 40 years to kill a wolf are getting old and dying off. Is it some freakin’ sick, twisted, act of a sociopath trying to be kind to these old hunters to let them ‘bag a wolf’ before they die? I mean on the state level. On the federal level, it’s all the same rat bastards pushing KXL. Coincidence? Me thinks not! It’s all evil. From the top 1% who run the banks, Wall St. And Big Energy and supply the military-industrial complex with new and better ways to kill while they fleece the taxpayers to pay for it all! It is all connected! If they let the psychos take out their anger on wolves instead of politicians, the politicians feel safer and reward the psychos with even longer seasons, even denning season!
        All this tells me is the rich and their pet politicians are really worried about keeping a lid on a certain element of our population. So they threw the wolves to the psychos, conviently shooting gaping holes in the ESA, which they will use to ram all those Tar Sands pipelines through! Gee, the rich get richer, dirty politicians get richer, antisocial, anti-government, ankle biting turtle-conservatives get an outlet and a dead wolf to stuff or make a throw rug from. Evidently the revolvtion meter in DC must be running out of quarters and in the red zone? So they keep the ones they fear the most, busy blowing off steam by blowing away endangered animals. They keep giving them longer and longer seasons. ESA animals will fall like dominos.
        There is no reason to murder a wolf or bear or most any other animal short of rabies.
        I have been a voice howling alone in the dark on some segments of the wolf issues for a long time! It is good to have open minded people like you, Jim, to talk with here and get the word out! Thank you, as always, -Grandmother Sleeping Wolf

      • You see the big picture Melody, absolutly 100% right, if we want to save these animals, the 1% has to go down,..join forces with Anoyomous and Occupy Wall St and any Direct Action you can think of..love the collars taking the Bus 🙂

  15. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth,” never meant that humans have the obligation to kill everything on earth that does not look like us.

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  18. Thank you Dominique. What you said is what the super rich fear the most! That fear controls their behavior. Wish we could just get rid of them but we can’t. But we can vote to tax them at least at what they were paying before all their greased palm tax loopholes came in to play under Reagan’s administration. The great trickle-down theory. Ha! The only ‘trickle down’ average folks got was warm, wet and yellow!

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  19. Confession from the unnamed hunter:
    ——————————————————
    I shot an arrow into the air,
    I had hope it would hit a bear.
    My friends all said I was a fuck,
    That from a foot I’d miss a truck.

    My friends were wrong, but also right,
    A fuck like me should die tonight.
    I killed the bear by torture slow;
    There’s something wrong with me, you know.

    The bear had served a purpose clear,
    Myself, I am a waste of beer.
    You, too, are wrong to let me hunt–
    Hunting’s why they call me a jerk.

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