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I have read reports and seen video testimony and witness of cougar attacks and in all of the cases the persons involved had essentially no time to react even had they been armed.
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YOU are 100% correct--a couple of seasons ago, a friend of mine and I were bow hunting by Yellowstone National Park..he was on one side of the draw and me on the other---he suddenly heard a noise above him.. he looked up and saw a boar grizzly staring at him at about 50 yards..he was carring a .44 S&W on his hipp--the bear charged--my friend dropped his bow and went for his handgun--he did NOT have time to clear leather and the bear was 10 yards from him--thankfully the bear stoppped---chompped his teeth a few times and turned --slowly quartering away.. my friend said he felt all the blood drain from his head as he thought this was it--going to the big hunting grounds in the sky.. he also said there is NO way he could have fired a shot before that bear would have been on him.. upon closer inspection we discovered that the bear was feeding on a elk carcass and was making sure we knew it was his...needless to say we stayed out of there for the next couple of weeks..

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ALL MEN DIE, BUT FEW MEN TRULY LIVE..

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