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Offline Sourdough

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Chillie Suite Looks Like A Bear
« on: April 27, 2005, 08:16:27 AM »
I was reading something on the Bear Hunting forum that got me to thinking. Someone seen what they took to be a blond black bear. Only it was walking upright. Could that have been someone in one of those new Chillie suites Cabela's sells?
So to test my theory I put my homemade chillie suite on and went out behind the house. I called the wife and kid on my cell phone and asked them to look out back and see if they could see anything. They went to the second story bed room window. I was moving around amongst the spruce, birches, and willows. Right off the bat, both said they saw a grizzly. At first they both thought it was a bush, then as I moved they realised it was moving, so it had to be a grizzly. Wrong color for a Black bear. Wife is now threating to burn my chillie suite. I have orders (that's unusual wife has never forbid me to do anything before) not to wear it till after bear season. Wife claims it made me look just like a bear when I moved. My wife is not your average hockey mom. She is an experienced outdoors woman, with many Moose, Caribou, Deer, Black Bear, and one Grizzly under her belt. So if she says it made me look like a Bear I believe her.
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Chillie Suite Looks Like A Bear
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2005, 05:07:58 PM »
Seeing is in the eye of the beholder!  Many hunting season accidents are the result of the shooter thinking the target is what he was hunting.  Anything that re-enforces that just ups the risk.  I remember a small boy being shot by a deer hunter because he thought he seen a coyote.  What he shot was a small boy wearing a coonskin hat.

There have been numerous stories regarding this issue in outdoor magazines, and other studies.  Some guys shot at anything that is alive out there.  When deer and bear season is open and that is the subject of the hunt I do not spend the day shooting at other targets.  I feel strongly about this.

A younger teenage brother shot a porcupine on a hunt.  I hiked to his location to give him a hand.  I was rather upset.  We had discussed this issue before.  The next morning I did not wake him to go hunting and left him behind that Sunday.  He clearly understood the rules after that.  

Years later a LEO friend want to go hunting with me.  We had been friends in elementary school and high school.  When he went to work as a LEO his first station was in LA.  He must have picked up some bad habits down there.  I briefed him about the hidden canyon were going to hunt.  I also remarked that he should not shot at targets other then deer.  There was a big buck in there that I did not want to scare out of country.  A few hours later I heard a number of shots from the side of the canyon he was hunting on.  I hiked over and found he was shooting rocks.  He was not invited back.

The point is that a number of hunters do not have their mind on the hunt and while my teenage brother knew his target and my LEO friend knew his rocks the time was not right.  There is the serious hunter and the not so serious hunt.  

Some of the best training I ever had was in law enforcement.  Regarding shot-do not shot scenarios.  Live fire training is great because if you goof you have a target with your bullet hole in it.  It would be a great hunter safety training tool.
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« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2005, 01:39:39 PM »
for the life of me I couldnt figure out what the heck you were talking about....
so I went to CABALAS and looked up a chillie suit...

  THEY ARE GHILLIE SUITS...WITH A "G" ... not chillie suits... :grin:
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