Helluva trophy for a 5 year old.

[Mr White]

This should send the anti hunters into an uproar.

Video

 

[MDG1976]

hhmmmmm... there a few things in that story that I have a hard time believing

 

[Roswell 1847]

This it?

Relative of Davy Crockett, 5, kills bear
FOXSports.com, Updated 4 hours ago STORY TOOLS:

Legend has it Davy Crockett killed a bear when he was three. A distant relative of the 19th-century frontiersman has done the same thing at five.

Tre Merritt, a 5-year-old boy from Arkansas, killed a black bear Sunday, according to his grandfather.
"(The bear) came in about 40 to 50 yards," Mike Merritt, Tre's grandfather, told KATV of Little Rock, Ark, "and when he got in the open, I whistled at him and he stopped and I said, 'Shoot Tre.' "

And that's what his grandson did, killing the 400-pound animal.

"I was up in the stand and I seen the bear," Tre Merritt told KATV. "It came from the thicket and it was beside the road and I shot it."

According to the report, Tre's father said his son began shooting when he was 2 1/2 and killed three deer last year. What else would you expect from a decendant of the "King of the Wild Frontier?"

"His 10th great-grandfather was Davy Crockett," Mike Merritt said. "And Davy supposedly killed him a bear when he was three. And Tre is five and really killed a bear. I really doubt if Davy killed one when he was three."

I've found evidence of my Paternal Grandmother's ancestors having been involved in a Bear hunt with Daniel Boone. Its mentioned in his journals.

 

[coolcloo1019]

Awesome. Congrats to the kid. Glad some people get their kids and grand kids involved with the outdoors and hunting.

 

[bdg146]

Just curious... anyone know what kind of rifle that is by looking at it? I'm not schooled enough to be able to tell...

Congratulations to the kid, but does anyone else feel 5 years old is a little young to be hunting bear? Don't get me wrong, teaching sons/grandsons to hunt is incredible, and one of the foundations of our sport. Just not sure I would have been ready for that when I was 5. Eh, maybe I'm just jealous because I've never gotten a black bear

 

[marksman13]

Looks like a Rossi to me.

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

Well if the kid was raised up with guns and the outdoors it's reasonable that he could kill a bear at age 5, but deer at 2 1/2 years seems very far fetched. Look at him go on that 4 wheeler.

 

[KMBRTAC45]

Original quote by: 351 WINCHESTER
Well if the kid was raised up with guns and the outdoors it's reasonable that he could kill a bear at age 5, but deer at 2 1/2 years seems very far fetched. Look at him go on that 4 wheeler.

I don't think they said he got a deer a 2 1/2 years old. They started teaching him to shoot at 2 1/2. He shot 2 deer last year.

He sure dose move on that wheeler.

 

[Mauserguy]

I love it.
Mauserguy

 

[Legionnaire]

hhmmmmm... there a few things in that story that I have a hard time believing

C'mon. It made CNN; it must be true!