If you've been listening to Stephen Colbert for the past, oh, two years, you'd know one inalienable truth about our sweet country: Bears are a menace. They are killing machines, bent on the destruction of the human race and -- even worse -- American values. What, then, are we to do to combat this scourge?
Rely on the five-year-olds, that's what:
A 5-year-old Arkansas County boy killed a black bear Sunday weighing more than 400 pounds. [...]
"He came in about 40 to 50 yards," Mike Merritt said of the black bear, "and when he got in the open, I whistled at him and he stopped and I said, 'Shoot Tre.'"Tre confirmed his grandfather's account.
"I was up in the stand and I seen the bear," Tre Merritt said. "It came from the thicket and it was beside the road and I shot it."
Questions, and answers, about this story:
Q. So, why did you drop Davy Crockett in the headline?
A. Because this kid is the 10th great-grandson of Davy Crockett, who supposedly killed a bear when he was three.
Q. Why was a five-year-old wielding a rifle? That seems dangerous.
A. Good question! I was wondering that myself. (Great minds, etc.) Apparently the child was using a "youth rifle." A youth rifle capable of downing a 400-pound bear, but a "youth rifle" nonetheless. Not sure how what is unsafe for a gigantic bear could be possibly be seen as safe in the hands of a five-year-old child, but that's not the point here, is it?
Q. OK, so what's the point?
A. Something is seriously wrong with Arkansas.
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hey Brad, you can kill a bear with a .22 caliber rifle if you hit it in the right place. And certainly a 5 year old can handle a .22
It's funny how people are so tied to the system.
if something serious went wrong in this country
and these people couldn't get a responce from 911
it would be over.people hunt not only from tradition
but most eat what they kill and it hones their survival skills.just remember these class "A" personality folks might be the people you need to look to in an emergency.It's ok to say I don't hunt
Papa sure is proud. Its a good thing he got
that bear. Now we can walk safely to Mickey D's
knowing there is one less bear likely to be
ground up into quarter pounders.
A redneck grandfather teaches his 5 yr old grandson to shoot a bear on the side of the road, and why? Because the floor was cold & they need a bear skin rug with a head attached? Were they hungry and needed the meat for food, or donate to the poor? No, they are just backward ass bumpkins who have animal heads all over the walls.
I dislike hunters that can't even make the excuse they eat what's killed. Keep teaching that kid to kill animals off the roads & by 15 he could be blasting kids away at his High School. All psychos start off killing animals, usually not a 400 lb. bear, so he's got a head start.
Shooey! Let's all go down to the Cracker Barrel for some squirrel stew and moonshine!
i hunt,but waiting in a tree stand while an animal walks up to the food you have put out and dropping an anvil on its head is not hunting..you are lazy rednecks
I grew up in a family were hunting and fishing is the norm. I have no problem in hunting animals for food, and if there was a confrontation with me and an animal, of course I would shoot it dead! Remember, hunting animals for food goes back centuries!! Just because we can go to the store and buy the meat, does not mean we should not hunt animals, if we want, for food!! I love animals, but there is a difference between a dog/cat and a deer or bear. One is wild, the other domesticated. Wake up America! This is an ongoing traditional American way of life, for some, and NO ONE has the right to turn it into something else!!!
I think this is sick and there is really no reason to argue with a hillbilly who's excuse is that bears are overpopulated. I've never seen a bear in the in the wild, probably because I don't go in the forest with a gun looking for one. Also it safer for a person to learn how to use a fireharm at a younger age? You know what's safer? If they never use a firearm at all. If you insist you playing with guns why don't the next you hicks reinact the civil war (probably Saturday)- do us a favor and use loaded weapons - or "youth rifles."
Isn't that the same bear that Grandpa had relations with back yonder?
Black bears have been released into KY with tags on their necks. This means, of course, that you cannot kill it. One day, my uncle went onto his porch, only to confront a bear. He immediately went back inside until it left.
Here is the problem. His little grandchildren live walking distance from him, and often run back to see their grandpa. Who or what is more important in the grand scheme of things? The bear, or the child. One animal is equal to another as food. Suppose none of you eat chicken?
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Cory Countryman
Wow. Cory Countryman
ummmmmm theres no reason a 5 year old cant go hunting the younger you teach them proper hunting saftey the better.
O hey next his dad going to show him how to drink a beer or maybe how to fly a plane .dead to the kid mean nothing now its a sport ... Nature born killer. jails are full ,thanks Dad for breeding chicken and a jr. killer
Wow, I think I just lost a few brain cells reading some of these posts. All of these ignorant people posting about stuff they know nothing about. The references to hillbilly stereotypes are actually quite funny. I come from the land of the camo jackets and jacked up trucks. I have killed D-E-E-R (for the smart guy that called them dears) before and eaten the meat. What I have not personally eaten, someone has. I have been handling rifles with supervision since I was small enough to sit on my grandfather's lap. Let me make this clear, I have the utmost respect for animals. If you know what you are doing, the animal will barely know it has been shot before it dies. I guarantee I stand on higher moral ground than most of the people here who are "against the murdering of animals." My parents and grandparents taught me respect, honesty, and loyalty, and I remember that every day. FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T THINK THAT ANYONE SHOULD HAVE FIREARMS: I bet you think that all you have to do is click your heels 3 times and the fairy godmother will come down and protect all of us from the wicked witches of the middle-east.
FOR THE PEOPLE WHO STEREOTYPE THOSE OF US FROM WV,KY,AR,or anywhere that "hicks" live: There are few better people in the world than the generation of the parents and grandparents of the people from these regions. They know the value of an honest day's work,which can not be said by half of the American population these days. We love our country and we don't try to change the ways you live, so stop trying to change the way we do.
P.S. Make friends with one of us "hicks" because if you ever need someone to watch your back, there is nobody better.
Butfor you hunters who think this is ok I asked before did they eat the bear meat? Did they kill specifically because of the need for food. I personally don't think that was the reason. Even if they claim to have eaten the bear's meat or froze it, whatever the main goal was to kill a huge bear to beat some bogus record by Davy Crockett.
I've lived in only 2 states both southern, but I don't consider myself a redneck bumpkin. I do put this grandfather in the hillbilly category though. I don't like this type of hunting. They did not kill for the food & they were up in a stand. What kind of skill does that take, there's something unethical about shooting an animal off guard doing whatever on the side of the road.