It was a rather bloody mess... Home invasion

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"The Skinners say they don't know why the bear invaded their home, about eight miles from Grants Pass."
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Probably wanted a cheeseburger, a side of fries, a Coke, and some Ho Hoes.

L.W.
 
The bear's mother, Mama Bear, demanded justice at a press conference the next morning. She insisted that her son was a good bear who was just getting his life turned around. She further maintained that, "All he ever wanted was a pickanic basket."
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Oh my, that bear was clearly going after that pick-a-nic basket - LMBO! :D :D
 
Wait a minute! Why would you load "rubber bullets" after birdshot?

Let's see mister intruder, you didn't like my birdshot so let me know what you think of this "rubber bullet" that my friend gave me to try..

Does Oregon have a Castle Doctrine? This guy may want to seek council..
 
That 2nd story from Boulder said he had to retrieve his shotgun and ammo from 2 different places... sounds like he grabbed whatever was available and loaded it.

Too bad for both bears. Glad no one got hurt.
 
"Suspect is a middle aged black male from the south central part of the woods."
 
This guy should really think about getting a .45 or assault rifle
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uhhhhh

A .45 doesn't kill everything despite the hype of some of those on this board. I would have severe concerns about the penetration of a .45 on a bear.

An "assault rifle" as you call it is a battle rifle knock off firing an intermediate round. I would have serious doubts that a .223 / 5.56 would have the horsepower to down a bear without using the entire clip in an SD situation. The AK's 7.62 would do better, possibly even be very effective on a bear that size. A .308 would be the ideal, but I wonder if that would fall under the strict definition of an "assault rifle", since they are firing real cartridges and not intermediate cartridges.

Obviously, at the end of the day, the home owner did OK. I wonder how many of us would have gone to check out the bump in the night, ID'd the bear and then locked up because our brain refused to accept a BEAR in the HOUSE. I bet it took him a few seconds to convince himself what he was seeing...
 
It was Oregon so it could have been a Grizzly.
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Nope, sorry. No brown bears here since the late 1930's. Now, Northern Washington state on the other hand...

Also, why in the world would you keep a home defense shotgun loaded with birdshot? Unless he just grabbed the shotgun and whatever shells he had close at hand. Still, a quick exit from the home and a call to wildlife officials would have been a better option than giving it a painful rash with birdshot, then a slow painful death at the hands of police.
 
45/70 can come pretty close at those distances in N America
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Point made, but 90% of the time someone says "get yourself a .45" they mean a .45 ACP chambered weapon. The other 10% are people that mean get yourself a .45 LC.

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In actualality, he probally could have turned on a porch light after walking down the hall past the bear and open a door. It would have left without a problem in 95% of the situations. The other 5%, maybe. The vast majority of black bears are just looking for food and hate being around us except for free food. I come into contact, often a foot or less, several times a year in my yard when my dog wakes me, and in the woods up here. I've actually ran into one years ago while out running and rounded a corner by some boulders. I'm a serious bow and gun hunter, just don't bother the bears. Forget the .45 ACP as a bear gun.
 
The last time we had a bear in the house we just waited until he finished eating the salmon that Mother had been getting ready to go in the smokehouse. The main damage was to the window screen in our cooler window and to the cabbages which he stomped all over the floor. Then he crawled back out of the window and left.

It did take us a full day to coax our dog out from under the house, though.
 
That's nothing. A fellow up in the valley killed four brown bears in a row one night recently with his levergun. He's in a little hot water over shooting the first one because he failed to check for cubs first:

Tanner shot the bears after being awakened in the early morning at his home in wilderness north of Talkeetna. He said he shot the first bear out the bathroom window thinking it was a lone boar he had seen the day before. If the bear had been a boar, it would have been a legal kill. He then shot two 250-pound cubs as they tried to break into his house, and a final cub outside.
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http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/wildlife/bears/story/870563.html

Only in Alaska would a fella hunt bear from his bathroom window ;-)
 
It was obviously the Skinner families' fault. If they hadn't had that picnic basket, the bear would never have invaded their home. This is the reason all picnic baskets should be banned in this country. Our loose and lax laws will cause problems in other countries. Research shows that almost all criminal picnic basket possession cases in Canada can be traced back to the U.S. For the sake of the children (and BooBoo), stop the picnic basket madness now.
 
From that article
Connie Barnes, who lived with Munson for five years and never went outside after dark without a spotlight, her husband and his BB gun.
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So I guess it's time to start a "What BB gun for bear?" thread?
...Wow.
 
...to be followed by "Do bears like Tabasco or Texas Pete with humans at dinner" and other similar threads
 
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