MAN SHOOTS GRIZZLY with .45

**kimbercarry** · May 31st, 2010, 10:54 AM

Backpacker shoots, kills grizzly in Alaska park
AP

Mon May 31, 6:48 am ET

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A backpacker shot and killed a grizzly bear with his handgun in Alaska's Denali National Park, officials said.

A man and woman reported that they were hiking Friday evening when the bear emerged from trailside brush and charged the woman, park spokeswoman Kris Fister said in a statement.

The man fired nine rounds from his .45 caliber, semiautomatic pistol at the animal, which then stopped and walked into the brush.

The two reported the shooting to rangers, who restricted access to the Igloo Canyon area for fear that the bear was wounded and dangerous.

On Saturday, rangers found the dead bear about 100 feet from the shooting site.

Park officials are determining the justification for the shooting. It's legal to carry firearms in that area of the park but illegal to discharge them.

Rangers said it was the first known instance of a grizzly bear being shot by a visitor in the wilderness portion of Denali, formerly called Mount McKinley National Park.

**thefirstndsecond** · May 31st, 2010, 11:22 AM

and charged the woman,

Always heard the rumors about having a girl while deer hunting, but never bear hunting...

This is the problem when parks have the you can carry vs discharge.

It should not be used as an add on charge.

**PSUfan1** · May 31st, 2010, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by thefirstndsecond

Always heard the rumors about having a girl while deer hunting, but never bear hunting...

This is the problem when parks have the you can carry vs discharge.

It should not be used as an add on charge.

I agree...

I carry in areas that have similar rules. I figure if I ever am forced to use my weapon... I won't really be worried about the discharge part. I'm more or less thinking that the discharge part was put in to stop people from "plinking" as opposed to shooting in self defense.

**tomgun1** · May 31st, 2010, 01:09 PM

dumb ass talked to a field cop

**thebearpack** · May 31st, 2010, 01:12 PM

Being discussed here too:

http://forum.pafoa.org/news-123/1015...aska-park.html

Not sure which is the better place for it.

**mrnyman** · June 1st, 2010, 06:31 PM

And we supposedly live in the freest couuntry in the World? Unbelievable that they are even considering charges against this man, Anywhere else in the world it would be a common sense issue - i.e Bear attack Human , Human kill bear- end of story but here in the free usa we must have an investigation - for everything, lest the UN get upset that we shoot thier bear in "thier" Park.