\ Bears Prowl
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or so. When they stopped
rolling the bear was as dead as
the tree.
We looked around and the
other bears were gone so we
»ent down the slope to the bear
slid even lying theve on the
ground he was big and ugly
enough to scare us. We figured
the weight to be approximately
1,400 pounds and he was the
biggest bear any of us had ever
gen.
It was dark so we decided to
leave the carcass there until day
light and then come back to
(jkiu it.
' After breakfast the next mor
ning we went back and began
skinning the bear carefully so
ue wouldn’t damage the hide. A
little before noon we were al
most through and started rolling
the carcass off the hide. We had
laid our rifles down some dis
ance from the carcass and just
o we were rolling the big fellow
o one si le we heard a noise in
he underbrush behind us. We j
lidn’t have any weapons within
each, other than our knives, so
re stood up to listen. The noise
rasn’t very loud and it stopped
b suddenly as it had begun. We
ipured it was a fox and went
ack to work. In a minute the
oise started again.
"I'll bet it’s one of those
ears,” Sgt. Burbank suggested,
ad we picked up our rifles
uickly and stood facing the
ound We had our trigger fin
;ers curled and rifles ready to
ipen fire. We were on the point
^ dispersing and starting to
p arc) the sound from three dif
irent directions whei. there was
^ loud crash from the under
, rash and a large brownie came
ping out of the ticket.
It was the most fascinating
ght you can imagine. That
Jar was plenty big, and the
air on the hump over hi
loulders stood straight up and
ahead swayed all around him
J he came straight at us, mouth
Pen and those wicked white
eth gleaming.
Sgt. Burbank was closest to
* point where the bear broke
tough so he jerked his rifle to
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shots. The bear stopped in his
tracks when the bullets hit him.
He didn’t fall over but just
stood there swaying a little and
g'ared at us as if trying to de
cide whether to keep on coming
or to head back in the brush.
We were ready to throw some
more lead at him but the bear
must have decided that he was
out-numbered because he spun
around and fled back into the
thicket.
We didn’t want a wounded
bear roaming around in the hills
so we started after him. That
patch of brush was so thick you
could hardly see ahead but we
went on, with rifles ready. We
were expecting to see that ugly
brute rear up on his hind legs in
front of us any minute.
Sgt. Burbank was proceeding
cautiously through'that tangled
brush when he heard a low
growling sound from ahead. It
was more like a groan than a
growl, but it meant the bear
was near. Burbank brought his
rifle up but there wasn’t any
more noise and we knew that
the bear, wherever tie was
wasn’t moving.
Burbank advanced a few'
steps at a time with rifle always
ready for instant use Then he
saw what appeared to be a huge
brown boulder a few feet ahead
of him and slopped. He stood
still for a m merit waiting to see
if it was the bear or just a large
rock such as dotted the valley j
floor. Peering through the tangl
ed brush he advanced again but
the object, did not stir. He ap
proached to within 8 feet, then
stopped to get a better look.!
This time he could see it was the
bear — dead. Burbank’s two
shots had been effective.
We skinned the second bear,
which was younger than the
flrst, and also cut out the choic
est meat to take back to camp.
We took both hides with us, too.
This was accomplished by pre
paring a stretcher from 2 shelter
halves and a couple of poles
which we cut in a littl • grove of
trees The total weight of our
stretcher load was somewhere in
the neighborhood of 300 and
| that, with our equipment, rifles
and ammunition, made some
load to lug through the Kodiak
brush
We got back to camp just
“under the wire” before our 3
day pass expired. We were a trio
of happy but dead-tired hunters
when we finally reached the
road where we were to be picked
up. Our driver came along at
the appointed time and drove
us the rest of the way to Fort
Greely When we got back the
first thing we did was take off
our hunting clothes, take a
shower and hit the bunk.
James Fadaoff, age 13 from
Woody Is'and. is in the GM
hospital this week for nied'cal
attention.
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