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Sad news, Update Bears are down.

dpmule
https://buckrail.com/two-elk-hunters-attacked-by-bears-guide-still-missing/

Outlook is not promising.
Have hunted that country in the past.

Mule

Updates

https://www.eastidahonews.com/2018/09/grizzlies-suspected-of-killing-hunting-guide-are-dead/

https://buckrail.com/death-of-mark-uptain-by-grizzly-what-we-now-know/


https://www.eastidahonews.com/2018/09/fundraising-drive-begins-for-family-of-hunter-killed-in-bear-attack/

And on a side note for those out of the area that wonder if these interactions are rare.
We have friends who run a established hunting camp on the East side of YNP in the Absorokas and this weekend a Grizzly got into their mules and scattered them, one is still missing, many people I know are bumping into them regularly this fall and that is a little confusing as it is a very good berry year.

Mule
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  • remingtonoaks
    My prayers go out to them and their families
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  • dpmule
    Just got word.
    They found his remains.
    [V][V]
    RIP Mark.


    Mule
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  • Smitty500mag
    "was unable to safely fire a shot at the bear that had pounced upon Uptain."

    I would have been screaming SHOOT SHOOT!!!! I wouldn't care if he had a clear shot or not. I'd rather be killed by a gun shot as eaten by a bear.
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  • montanajoe
    • Community moderator
    [V][V][:(][:(][:(]
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  • yoshmyster
    Now a rogue bear hunt? I mean execute with extreme prejudice? Why can't we do that with people?
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  • Oakie
    [V][V][V][V][V]Prayers for the young mans family
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  • wiplash
    "Chubon was able to run to his pack a few yards away and retrieve a pistol."

    In his pack? In Bear Country!
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  • Ditch-Runner
    terrible way to go and to be part of .
    I can not imagine thinking of all the what if's the rest of your life
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  • yoshmyster
    quote:Originally posted by wiplash
    "Chubon was able to run to his pack a few yards away and retrieve a pistol."

    In his pack? In Bear Country!


    Like the joke where one just had to out run the slow fellow to avoid beinh a p p yogi snack.
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  • mnrivrat48
    quote:"Chubon was able to run to his pack a few yards away and retrieve a pistol."


    Pistol in a pack, and an unarmed guide ? That seems like a mistake, awaiting a bad outcome.


    Very unfortunate outcome. [:(]
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  • shilowar
    The hunters become the hunted...they wanted to participate in the cycle of life.
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  • spasmcreek
    some do not realize the food chain can easily go past them .....duhh
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  • Horse Plains Drifter
    Wow, sad news indeed. Prayers for all involved.
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  • Rocky Raab
    Archery hunt. It's likely that the state doesn't allow you to have a firearm on your person during the hunt. But prudence says to have one in bear country, so keep it in the pack. Law be damned.
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  • danielgage
    sad

    prayers

    we need to thin out predators or more people will die like this

    our forefathers had them thinned-out and we have helped them get too numerous [V]
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  • Idahobound
    The judge that block the hunting of grizzlies should be making a donation as should all the other anti-grizzly hunters. The bears have become and will continue to be a huge issue. The numbers need to be thinned out.
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  • remingtonoaks
    quote:Originally posted by Idahobound
    The judge that block the hunting of grizzlies should be making a donation as should all the other anti-grizzly hunters. The bears have become and will continue to be a huge issue. The numbers need to be thinned out.


    We have claimed wildlifes territory with our cities, now we're invading their territory that we pushed them back to, to get away from us.

    Yet we blame wildlife[V][V]

    Now mind you, I'm an avid Hunter and I am one of the people that go to the mountains and invade their territory. But I also know the risk of doing so and accept them. And if a bear ever attacked and killed me, I would not blame the bear. Because it is my fault for invading their territory
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  • remingtonoaks
    quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
    Archery hunt. It's likely that the state doesn't allow you to have a firearm on your person during the hunt. But prudence says to have one in bear country, so keep it in the pack. Law be damned.


    Rocky, here in Utah if you have a CCW permit, you ARE allowed to carry a pistol, either concealed or openly on the archery hunt.
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  • dpmule
    quote:Originally posted by remingtonoaks
    quote:Originally posted by Idahobound
    The judge that block the hunting of grizzlies should be making a donation as should all the other anti-grizzly hunters. The bears have become and will continue to be a huge issue. The numbers need to be thinned out.


    We have claimed wildlifes territory with our cities, now we're invading their territory that we pushed them back to, to get away from us.

    Yet we blame wildlife[V][V]

    Now mind you, I'm an avid Hunter and I am one of the people that go to the mountains and invade their territory. But I also know the risk of doing so and accept them. And if a bear ever attacked and killed me, I would not blame the bear. Because it is my fault for invading their territory




    quote:Originally posted by Idahobound
    The judge that block the hunting of grizzlies should be making a donation as should all the other anti-grizzly hunters. The bears have become and will continue to be a huge issue. The numbers need to be thinned out.


    +1 Idahobound

    Remingtonoaks Likely you won't have to concern yourself with this issue, since all you have is blacks and even though portions of Utah was in the past documented home to many grizzlies, your Fish and game, local governments aren't going to allow any of our problem bears to be placed down there. I wish we could share them with you.
    We will continue to deal with problem bears being moved from one place to the next until they are multiple offenders and then they are killed.
    Too many generations of bears since 1975 that have not been hunted and are very unconcerned interacting with humans, we are seen as something that provides a food source, back packs, coolers, unattended camps, gut piles.
    This will be the fall of SSS in many places .
    99% of the places I hunt, fish, and trail ride is situation 1 Grizzly habitat, so this isn't a subject that I pontificate from afar. I see them on a regular basis and see their sign every time I go out.

    Mule
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