AAAHAHAHAHA!

WOW, glad you are ok.

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
One of the reasons I carry is if something like this happens I can dispatch the animal with minimal suffering. Iv'e done two deer this way neither one hit by me but by someone directly in front of me.

Where I am that is a very bad idea last time I checked. Something to do w/ "firearm" and "roadside" as I remember it.

And to add, SC, that sucks. No wonder you have a dashcam w/ all that goes on down there, it seems.

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Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo:
I called the DNR. They took care of the bear.
It was howling on the side of the road.

That's the most distressing thing about this whole story to me. That poor bear.

Dude. My post wasn't a how too. Not only that, it was "only a deer", you go and one up, and go to a bear.


Glad you are OK.

ARman

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Originally posted by clubleaf206:

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Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo:
I called the DNR. They took care of the bear.
It was howling on the side of the road.

That's the most distressing thing about this whole story to me. That poor bear.

Same. Poor guy.

Sorry to see that, glad you are okay, I almost hit a small one up near Brasstown Bald years ago.

So the ranger was not OK with you shooting it dead on the side of the road?

Do you get a bearskin rug out of the encounter?

Glad you're OK and maintained control.

It must've been only 4 or 5 weeks ago when you found the Explorer off the road on your commute to work.

I know you're an animal lover so I hope you're ok after hitting the bear

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
Glad you're OK and maintained control.

It must've been only 4 or 5 weeks ago when you found the Explorer off the road on your commute to work.

In fact it was about half a mile further up the mountain.
I'm speculating that he had swerved to avoid this bear.

Well some folks have all the luck, some folks never see one.Glad you are ok,auto can be repaired

Hey!!!
I thought of your hunts afterwards.
There’s so many of them up here now, they need culling!!!

I am surprised the airbags didn't fire. That was a solid hit. Glad you are ok.

Had a guy and his family hit a dear in front of me. Pulled over, helped him get the car safely off the road.

Just curious what state the cockatoo tree is in that has so many bears to cull?

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Originally posted by Blackmore:

Just curious what state the cockatoo tree is in that has so many bears to cull?

He's in the North Georgia hills.

Yep very north Georgia.

Here’s one in my yard a few months ago.

For what's it's worth, from your dash cam footage, it's clear there was no way to avoid that hit.

Whelp... thanks GenAI for this one fellas...

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In the wilds of North Georgia, under a sky so vast and blue,
Drove a man named ScreamingCrocketto, in his Nissan Rogue so true.
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