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Originally Posted by Delthefunky
If a bear has ripped through your tent, and you shoot it with bear spray, it's going to go into a violent defensive rage if it suddenly can't see or smell and now has a tent shell draped over it's body. It would be interesting to know more about what happened in this case. We camp with our dog and I'm sometimes uneasy about it. The bear might just see the tent as a den with easy prey inside it.
Too bad really, Ya Ha Tinda area is one of my favorite places on earth just because it is so rough and rugged. There was a bear attack there a hundred years ago where a grizzly attacked an entire group of people walking their horses through a willow grove. A guide shot the bear 4 or 5 times and it kept charging and I think killed everyone before it finally died itself. There was an old Calgary Herald story about in the old restaurant that was at the entrance to Ya Ha Tinda, which has since burnt down.
The story said the hide from the bear proved it was a world record grizzly at something like 17' long (not sure how long that makes the actual bear, obviously sounds like a bit of a stretch), but nevertheless it was a big boss like bear. Apparently someone in Saskatchewan ended up with it somehow, no idea where it is today. I don't live in Calgary anymore but if someone has access to search old Calgary Herald stories from the library it would be a cool story to bring up.
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That's pretty wild, man. I'd like to ready the whole story on this.
Not sure what you meant exactly by 17' but that bit sounds like fiction to me lol.