 |
|
| Home PMs Upload New Posts |
| Posted: 14 Aug 2008 7:18 PM | ||
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 2082 Non Typical:  Join Date: Feb 2007 |
|
Reported in the NJ Hearald, A homeowner confronted a 200 pound sow in his garage and shot the bear with a .40 cal handgun. The wounded bear escaped through a window, and its carcass was recovered approximately 50 yards from the home. The same bear had twice before broken into the garage causing nearly $3,000 in damages. The State erected a culvert trap, but the sow avoided the trap.
No info on whether the state will take any action. I hope not __________________ Support the N.J.O.A. and the "Littel Amendment" An amendment to the New Jersey State Constitution that Guarantees the right to hunt, trap, and fish in New JerseyNew Jersey Outdoor Alliance
|
||
| Posted: 14 Aug 2008 7:20 PM Last Edited By: KoBear | ||
|
Registered User |
Posts: 2616 Monster Buck:  Join Date: Feb 2007 |
|
Quote:
No info on whether the state will take any action. I hope not i hope they do take action.... and give us a FREAKIN BEAR SEASON!!!  __________________ Outdoorsmen: the original conservationists.
HeadAke86@aol.com <---<< emails go right to my phone 
Christmas Trees New Egypt, NJ Open Every weekend after Turkey Day! |
||
| Posted: 14 Aug 2008 7:24 PM | ||
|
Registered User, Sponsor Currently Offline |
Posts: 3971 Monster Buck: Join Date: Nov 2007 |
|
Quote:
No info on whether the state will take any action. I hope not They better not |
||
| Posted: 14 Aug 2008 7:24 PM | ||
|
Registered User |
Posts: 3581 Monster Buck: Join Date: May 2006 |
|
It will be interesting to see the outcome of this ! __________________ <- <- <- <- ~ <- <- <- <-
I'd rather be working.........a Bird! 
Pro Staffer  |
||
| Posted: 14 Aug 2008 7:39 PM | ||
|
Registered User Currently Online |
Posts: 447 Rack Buck:  Join Date: Oct 2007 |
|
As you guys know I work for GEICO and tomorrow I am going to look at a Honda Pilot in Stillwater that a Bear broke thru the Sunroof and destroyed the interior I will try and get some pics for you  __________________ NJH Pro-Staff /Arkansas Division
http://www.myspace.com/bigstevenj1067 <-MySpace |
||
| Posted: 14 Aug 2008 7:56 PM | ||
|
Registered User, Sponsor Currently Offline |
Posts: 590 Typical:  Join Date: Dec 2007 |
|
Bears continue to raise concerns
By BRUCE A. SCRUTON bscruton@njherald.com A Fredon homeowner shot a bear moments after it charged him when he opened the door to his garage, the fourth day in a row he said the animal entered the garage. Joe Pensado, who lives in the central part of town, said he fired one shot from his licensed .40 caliber handgun. The bear climbed out the window in the garage door and ran off into the woods. The next day, Pensado said he found the untagged female bear dead in the woods, about 50 yards from the house. A brief synopsis of the July 17 incident, along with the deaths of three other bears and a score of serious bear-related incidents, was included in the monthly report presented Tuesday to the state Fish and Game Council. The shooting capped a tense evening in which the bear also charged Pensado and his 3-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter when they were in the driveway. "We were shooting hoops and she bluff-charged at us," he said. "She wanted down that driveway toward her food source and she didn't want us around." After getting his children and himself inside, Pensado said he watched the bear enter and leave a state-set culvert trap several times "but never set it off. She ate all the bacon and other stuff leading up to the trap, but never the bait hanging inside," he said. The bear, later determined to be a 4-year-old female who apparently had no cubs with her, jumped into the back of Pensado's pick-up truck, grabbed a box of broken glass and began picking through it, looking for food scraps. According to Pensado's account, the bear got into the garage July 14, apparently by lifting one of the unlocked doors and walking in. That day, the animal left behind a mess when it ripped open garbage stored there. After the bear got in a second time, "I figured it was time to start locking the doors," Pensado said. "Wrong idea. The third night, the bear "crashed through" one door on its way in and broke through the other garage door on its way out. "I've got $3,000 worth of damage from that night," he said. Pensado said he had begun wearing his licensed handgun while around the house because of the bear's new habits "but the last thing I wanted to do was take her life." During the reporting period, state wildlife technicians killed two marauding bears in neighboring Hampton, one June 25 and the other July 9. Both animals were identified as bears that had been breaking into garages. The fourth bear killed, according to the monthly reports, was in West Milford, where it also had been captured in a culvert trap set in response to attempted home entries. The reports also notes another bear was shot at close range by a state park police officer at Worthington State Forest after the animal chased people away from a picnic table then ate their food. The report, which covers the period of June 21 to July 20, notes there were a total of 386 bear calls, compared with 258 calls from the same period in 2007, an increase of 50 percent. Of those calls, 23 were considered category I, or serious, bear complaints. That category includes close encounters with humans, even if no injury occurs, entering a house, serious property damage or killing livestock. In 2007, the same period produced 12 such calls. Category II bears are those considered to be a nuisance, such as rummaging through unsecured garbage, looking around a campsite, minor property damage or a provoked dog attack, while category III are those incidents where people report seeing a bear, an animal is found dead or injured or it raids a bird feeder. There were 214 category II calls, compared to 121 in 2007 (a 77 percent increase) and 149 category III calls, compared with 125 from the year before (a 20 percent increase). This year, the black bear unit reports it has destroyed or euthanized 15 bears compared with 12 for the same period last year. Created: 8/13/2008 | Updated: 8/13/2008 |
||
| Posted: 14 Aug 2008 8:46 PM | ||
|
Registered User, Sponsor Currently Offline |
Posts: 629 Typical: Join Date: May 2005 |
|
|
tick tick tick __________________ Bob
|
||
| Posted: 14 Aug 2008 8:53 PM | ||
|
Registered User |
Posts: 2492 Non Typical: Join Date: Sep 2005 |
|
|
WE NEED A BLACK BEAR HUNT....NEW JERSEY ARE YOU LISTENING! __________________ Want to be FIT?
http://BootCross.com |
||
| Posted: 14 Aug 2008 8:56 PM | ||
|
Registered User |
Posts: 116 Spike:  Join Date: Sep 2005 |
|
| Add one more to the list. The vernon p.d. killed one in my front yard 2 days ago. | ||
| Posted: 14 Aug 2008 8:59 PM | ||
|
Registered User |
Posts: 1021 Non Typical: Join Date: Aug 2007 |
|
|
Isn't killing a bear illegal by a civilian.. Were the court summons for this???
The time bomb is ticking away,, just think guys are baiting the woods for deer and someone is going to get caught between a sow and cubs.. i hope you have video camera!! |
||
| Posted: 14 Aug 2008 9:14 PM | ||
|
Registered User, Sponsor Currently Offline |
Posts: 6225 Addicted to NJH:  Join Date: Feb 2005 |
|
Quote:
Isn't killing a bear illegal by a civilian.. Were the court summons for this??? Not in a case of self defense. Also, it's not mentioned in this story but the homeowner is a cop. __________________ "To be unarmed and therefore helpless in the face of evil is irresponsible and in fact complicit to said evil. If you knowingly and intentionally go forward incapable of stopping evil, you assist in its progress. Only a person free to choose to protect himself is truly respecting God's gift of life." Ted Nugent
|
||
| Posted: 14 Aug 2008 9:23 PM Last Edited By: WackemStackem | ||
|
Registered User |
Posts: 1021 Non Typical: Join Date: Aug 2007 |
|
|
Bloodtrails,
ever think maybe we he opened the door the bear was trying to get out?? Oh I know a cop is alway on duty!! No arguement need.. I also guess the $$$$ spent on bear training is going well?? Open the hunt back up already |
||
| Posted: 14 Aug 2008 10:02 PM | ||
|
Registered User, Sponsor |
Posts: 860 Typical: Join Date: Feb 2008 |
|
What the hell is wrong with Corzine? How can he read this stuff and not want to act? Why is he so anti-hunting?
Is it orders from Karla Katz? Does he despise his rural upbringing? __________________ We, The People, are all first responders.
We are also the first victims. Demand reasonable CCW laws from Trenton. |
||
| Posted: 15 Aug 2008 12:36 AM | ||
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 128 Spike: Join Date: Feb 2006 |
|
|
Quote:
What the hell is wrong with Corzine? How can he read this stuff and not want to act? Why is he so anti-hunting? He panders to the mindless idiots who vote for him. __________________ "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine
---------------------- www.njsportsman.com |
||
| Posted: 15 Aug 2008 12:45 AM | ||
|
Registered User, Sponsor Currently Offline |
Posts: 5380 Addicted to NJH: Join Date: Oct 2006 |
|
Opening up the hunt is a no brainer.. I enjoy seeing the bears around my house but there are just too many for the open space available. Not to mention they just are not afraid of humans any more. They walk down the middle of my road in the middle of the day.. __________________ "from my cold dead hands"
"to all those in harms way, SEMPER FI" |
||
| Posted: 15 Aug 2008 7:56 AM Last Edited By: Catskillhuntr | ||
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 1777 Non Typical: Join Date: Feb 2005 |
|
Quote:
Opening up the hunt is a no brainer.. That is...if the state had a brain!! |
||
| Posted: 15 Aug 2008 10:25 AM | ||
|
Registered User, Sponsor Currently Offline |
Posts: 2527 Monster Buck: Join Date: Sep 2005 |
What Bears No Bears Here
 __________________ I just want to Hunt...
|
||
| Posted: 15 Aug 2008 10:32 AM | ||
|
Registered User, Sponsor Currently Offline |
Posts: 233 Spike: Join Date: Jul 2005 |
|
That's not a bear! See the colar, it's a big dog that got off of someone's leash.
|
||
| Posted: 15 Aug 2008 11:07 AM | ||
|
Registered User, Sponsor |
Posts: 1050 Non Typical: Join Date: Dec 2007 |
|
Quote:
They walk down the middle of my road in the middle of the day.. Same here, they just don't have any fear anymore. __________________ Member UBNJ
Member NJOA United We Stand, Divided We Fall. The choice is OURS |
||
| Posted: 15 Aug 2008 11:32 AM Last Edited By: Little M | ||
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 406 Rack Buck: Join Date: Dec 2005 |
|
| A friend of mine who lives in Green Township had two sheep and a goat killed recently. State got tired of trying to catch the bear in their trap and told the guy to shoot any bear that got in the pen. | ||
| Posted: 15 Aug 2008 12:37 PM | ||
|
Registered User, Sponsor Currently Offline |
Posts: 1602 Non Typical: Join Date: Dec 2005 |
|
Quote:
During the reporting period, state wildlife technicians killed two marauding bears in neighboring Hampton, one June 25 and the other July 9. Both animals were identified as bears that had been breaking into garages. They were just following DEP suggestions: http://nj.gov/dep/fgw/pdf/bear/bearfacts_garbagemgt.pdf Time for ANOTHER idea? __________________ Tired of working and having too much money?..... Vote Democratic, support USA's largest urban charitable organization.
|
||
| Posted: 15 Aug 2008 6:09 PM | ||
|
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 2082 Non Typical: Join Date: Feb 2007 |
|
make sure each and every one of these serious incidents is reported to the state. The more reports the better __________________ Support the N.J.O.A. and the "Littel Amendment" An amendment to the New Jersey State Constitution that Guarantees the right to hunt, trap, and fish in New JerseyNew Jersey Outdoor Alliance
|
||
RSS 2.0 Atom 1.0