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by FrontSight
Not my best moment.
I was a 15 year old kid. My grandfather and his best friend hunted bear with dogs, and they allowed my to tag along. Last trip our dog, a blue heeler simply named "Blue" (Grandpa wasn't too imaginative) managed to get one of his ribs pull out of his chest by a bear's claws, and it was very expensive patching him up. Really quite a miracle he survived.
So this time out grandpa told me something to the effect of "if that dog gets hurt again, just don't come back". Cut to a couple of hours later, blue trees a boar. I'm running like hell to catch up, and I'm wearing an 8" Dan Wesson M15 in a shoulder holster. I have just sprinted nearly a half mile and I'm sucking wind pretty bad. Bear is tree'd, I walk up an place a 158gr JHP squarely between his shoulders trying for a heart shot. The bear falls from the tree, and rolls over on his back. I'm thinking it's all over...I was wrong.
Blue sees his chance, springs in and bites the bear right on the nutz. Bear is noe VERY alive and pissed. They start to scrap, blue flanks him (he's easily twice as fast as the bear), runs up between the bears legs and latches onto the bears throat. Bear rolls over...
At this point my brain has recall... ""if that dog gets hurt again, just don't come back"... So what does the dumb-ass 15yo kid do? I step right over the bear straddling with legs on either side, grab a hand full of dog and toss the dog clear. It was at this point, I realize what a dumb-ass thing I just did...I just CHOSE to put a wounded and pissed off bear right between my legs...what an idiot!
Bear takes a swipe and just brushes my leg. I do an oh shit, and quickly pump 5 more rounds of .357 into the bear's chest, leap off, drop the revolver and start up the tree the bear just came out of. I get about 3 ft up, look over my shoulder and see the bear has had it.
I don't tell that story often because I don't need to present further evidence to people that I'm an idiot. One of the dumbest things I ever did.
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