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| Bear Picks On The Wrong Man |
| 2003-11-20 |
| Bears, why do they hate us? John Hirsch went toe-to-claw with a black bear — and won. Hirsch had only a 3 1/2-inch knife blade when he came across the bear in his backyard in Williams Lake, about 190 miles northeast of Vancouver. "He came out of nowhere," said Hirsch, 61, an avid hunter and outdoorsman. "I can remember thinking that he’s not stopping — he’s coming," said Hirsch. "I just didn’t feel I had any place to go." He was attacked Oct. 29 while checking on the 15 turkeys he and his wife, Sharon, raise on their spread. As the bear began to circle him, Hirsch faced it like a wrestler in a ring. "It was like a knife fight that you’d see in an old-time Western," he said. The bear swatted out at him, but each time it lunged, he managed to stab it. "I couldn’t tell you if the fight lasted three seconds or three minutes," Hirsch said. Three stabs to the bear’s chest and one to its neck finally did the bruin in. Don’t mess with Grandpa Hirsch. It stood about 5 foot 7 inches to Hirsch’s 5 feet 9 inches and weighed 200 pounds, according to conservation officers who inspected it. "I can say it sure looked smaller the next morning than it did during the fight," said Hirsch. The bear was in poor shape, suffering from a severed tongue and broken jaw, the conservation officer said. Its stomach was empty and the bear had little fat on it. Hungry and wounded = mean. Hirsch, a retired electrical foreman at B.C. Hydro, suffered a scratch to the top of his head and scratches to his back — and a shredded T-shirt. PETA will be filing charges, no doubt. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #6 A knife is my preffered tool for CQC. My second favorite for bears is a .45mm Sig. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-11-20 6:34:22 PM |
| #5 Someone should put him in touch with the iceman |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2003-11-20 4:54:43 PM |
| #4 I think Hirsch should have waited for the sanctions to take effect. Seriously, Hirsch should have done anything he cared to. I'm not stupid enough to give orders to anybody who can kill a bear with a knife. |
| Posted by: Christopher Johnson 2003-11-20 3:26:58 PM |
| #3 Poor ol' bear was all f*cked up and suffering, it needed euthanizing. Bet those turkeys are relieved, guess they don't know it's Thanksgiving. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-11-20 2:14:33 PM |
| #2 They'll bear watching. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-11-20 2:00:12 PM |
| #1 Somehow I don't think PETA will bear this well. |
| Posted by: Atrus 2003-11-20 1:42:20 PM |