I trailed a bear with my car

[Kevin Stenberg]

Last Sunday the wife and I were coming home from church. We had just passed my neighbors driveway. And the wife dramatically told me to stop the car and back up QUICKLY. MY wife NEVER gets excited. So I knew she had seen something very out of the ordinary.
I backed up even with the driveway. There at about 50 yards. Was a VERY large Blackbear male. Just standing in the drive way lookin around (away from us) it slowly started walking away from us on the driveway.
The wife says. Wasn't that neat. And wouldn't it be interesting to follow it (the bear) The light bulb goes off in my head. I put the car in drive and turned into the neighbors driveway. I caught up to it and stayed about 15-20 yards behind it. We followed the bear for probably 1/3 to 1/2 a mile along the driveway. Almost to the neighbors house.
The bear finally turned its head to the side enough to see us. And it was like he was shot out of a rocket. trying to get out of there. That was a fun drive home!

 

[RBHarter]

Funny how even the critters can be oblivious to the everyday.

Poor thing you probably scared him to death.

I view cats and bears the same way ,they are 1.5 to 3 times their weight of rage and fury in a paper bag . 100 times they will ignore you and walk away and then for no explainable reason they just explode and go completely guano crazy and destroy things .

There was a story from a friend of a friend about a bear that had been around for some time but was a "good neighbor" keeping to the trails and just passing through. 1 day the guy comes home to a tree across the driveway big enough that the only way around was to walk the last 1/4 mile to the house for a chain saw . So he leaves the truck goes to the house grabs the saw and is gone like 20 min. When he gets back to the tree and truck the tree has been reduced to kindling and camp stove sticks with the only witness a few bear tracks.

Great story , good to hear your bears are spooky of people still .

 

[9.3X62AL]

John Muir came up with the best description of bears I have ever read--"shaggy freebooters", this from "My First Summer In The Sierra". Bears are what prompted the purchase of my 9.3 x 62 bolter, and the Marlin 1895 goes along in the truck while in bear country also--at least one of those stays ready at hand. Damn things! (the bears, not the rifles).

 

[Pistolero]

Got them out at our Colorado cabin in the mountains. Never see them much, but they are around.

Bill