Alaska boy, 11, shoots bear charging fishing party

[Mileage Psycho]

Hats off to the kid!  

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Alaska boy, 11, shoots bear charging fishing party

FOX News

The quick thinking of a young boy saved a fishing party from a charging brown bear, according to Alaska State Troopers. 

Elliot Clark, 11, was walking through the woods near Game Creek last week with his three family members and three dogs when the bear came out and charged them, The Juneau Empire reported.

The bear ran through two of the men, pushing them to the side of the trail, leaving Elliot and his cousin left in its path, Elliot's father, Lucas, said.

"There was four of them in a line. My son was third," Elliot's father said. "The bear came down the trail at them, fella in the front, who was his uncle, the bear was on him so quickly that he didn't have time to take his rifle off his shoulder."

The boy then raised his pump action shotgun and shot the bear with birdshot.

His father said the first shot did nothing, but two more downed the bear and finishing shots by the boy and his uncle killed it.

"That first shot hit him in the shoulder and did absolutely nothing," he said. "The next shot hit him in the nose and traveled down through the neck."

Elliot's father said not getting around to putting a sling on his son's gun might have saved their lives, as he was able to quickly ready himself.

"He was carrying it in his hands rather than on his shoulder," he said. "That was the problem with the other ones, when the bear came at his uncle, he had his rifle on his shoulder and the bear was very close, so he couldn't get it off in time."

The incident was the first Defense of Life or Property killing in the Hoonah area this year, Alaska State Trooper spokeswoman Megan Peters said.

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[Jimmy Snacks]

Damn good work by the lad....had to be terrifying but he saved the day.

[XCR1250]

Birdshot, holy cow talk about a ticked off Bear, probably shot it in it's eyes.

[Zambroski]

The bear was "charging" down the traii at them and an 11 year old boy had time to get off three rounds with a pump.  Well...glory glory!  Nice story.  But I bet it happened a bit different.  

[Mileage Psycho]

1 hour ago, XCR1250 said:

Birdshot, holy cow talk about a ticked off Bear, probably shot it in it's eyes.

 

The nose shot seemed to do the trick.

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His father said the first shot did nothing, but two more downed the bear and finishing shots by the boy and his uncle killed it.

"That first shot hit him in the shoulder and did absolutely nothing," he said. "The next shot hit him in the nose and traveled down through the neck."

 

 

[Jimmy Snacks]

Next time either give the lad a rifle or buckshot for the scatter gun. 

[Zambroski]

2 minutes ago, Biggie Smails said:

Next time either give the lad a rifle or buckshot for the scatter gun. 

And let him walk point.  Clearly he is the only one with any sense in the group.  Bet his BAL was ZERO too.   

"The bear ran through two of the men, pushing them to the side of the trail"......which was easy because they were at a 2.4 blood alcohol level.  

 

 

 

[smokin george]

That'll show up with the kid kneeling next to the 1600lb grizzly that had all sorts of human remains in its stomach and full of diff caliber slugs in it. When standing the bear could look in a two storey window etc etc lol.