Alaska bear hunters stranded when bear shreds raft
by The Associated Press
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear - shreds your raft.

Alaska State Troopers say several members of a bear-hunting party found themselves stranded early Wednesday near Klukwan in southeast Alaska after a sow bear with two cubs shredded their Zodiac inflatable raft.

None of the hunters was injured.

Troopers say the hunters walked upriver toward Klukwan and fired rifle shots to attract attention. A Klukwan resident took a canoe across the Chilkat River after hearing the shots and yells from the other side. The hunters were given a ride back across the river in the canoe and returned to their vehicles.
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« dobieman wrote on Thursday, Nov 05 at 03:58 PM »
Gentle posters...a question:

A friend of mine leaves his snowmachine parked at his rec cabin throughout the year and in the summer time his ATV sometimes joins it. Over the years of this unattended storage he has had many of the foam rubber seats chewed and clawed by bears.

What is it about foam rubber that they love so much?
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« steelrsrv wrote on Thursday, Nov 05 at 03:23 PM »
Nice! Way to go Bear's!
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« axe2grind wrote on Thursday, Nov 05 at 11:37 AM »
Haha, gun tooting want-to-be killers bested by bear of superior intelligence.
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« Doug_in_Salcha wrote on Thursday, Nov 05 at 08:29 AM »
Had a bear 'eat' my 3-wheeler about 25 years ago. That was the first year that I purchased a bear tag (just in case I 'met up with him again'). Tooth punctures through the cowling and into the hardrubber gas tank and into one tire and most of my seat was 'shredded' and the fenders were bent from having the machine "rolled over"...

Would have been content to leave him alone had he been content to accord me the same priviledge but he didn't so I bought a bear tag "just in case". Yes, I can laugh about it now but it wasn't funny back then.
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« froznak wrote on Thursday, Nov 05 at 08:15 AM »
LOL Way to go bears
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« QueenOdDiamonds wrote on Thursday, Nov 05 at 08:06 AM »
Bear 1.. Hunters 0..lol
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« Pearl=W wrote on Thursday, Nov 05 at 07:34 AM »
A case of poetic justice?

People hunt bears, bear hunts people?
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« alaskadave wrote on Thursday, Nov 05 at 07:27 AM »
Was that you Ron?

Metal boats are the way in Alaska, eh?
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