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Speaker 1: From Media Doors World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This

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Speaker 1: is Kel's we Can Review with Ryan kel Kellan. Now

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Speaker 1: Here's Kel. The Montana Grizzlies have been running up the

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Speaker 1: score on bow hunters this September. I'm talking about actual bears,

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Speaker 1: not the school mascot at the University of Montana. The

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Speaker 1: Gravelly Range is located in the southwest portion of the state.

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Speaker 1: It's historic grizzly country, but their numbers over that way

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Speaker 1: we're pretty low up until the past decade or so.

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Speaker 1: This year, however, four bow hunters have been mauled in

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Speaker 1: two separate incidents in less than a ten day time period,

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Speaker 1: more evidence that grizzlies around the rebound across the Greater

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Speaker 1: Yellowstone Ecosystem or g y E, of which the Gravelly

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Speaker 1: Range is apart. The grizz population totaled only a hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty animals throughout the g y E in the

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Speaker 1: nine seventies, but it's now stim aid at over seven hundred.

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Speaker 1: Grizzly encounters have gone from barroom bluster to a regular

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Speaker 1: occurrence for outdoor enthusiasts during fall and spring in some

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Speaker 1: areas of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. These bears are a

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Speaker 1: part of life, and unless we screw things up again,

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Speaker 1: they're not going away. Grizzlies are incredibly powerful animals that

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Speaker 1: can cause serious damage to humans, livestock, and property. In

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Speaker 1: short order, the bears were pushed and killed from the

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Speaker 1: vast majority of their historic ranges because of their inherent destructiveness.

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Speaker 1: Because of the general scarcity of bears during the relatively

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Speaker 1: new phenomenon we call conservation, we were slow to realize

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Speaker 1: the long term effects of killing off these animals, and

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Speaker 1: even slower to decide if we actually wanted to have

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Speaker 1: these amazing but fearsome predators around at all. That's right,

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Speaker 1: A decision had to be made to save the grizzly,

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Speaker 1: just like the bison or the passenger pigeon. Two out

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Speaker 1: of three ain't bad, right. As history has proven, we

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Speaker 1: like the big animals more than the smaller animals that

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Speaker 1: fluent flocks containing billions of individuals capable of blanketing entire

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Speaker 1: towns with fee season, deafening the inhabitants of those towns

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Speaker 1: with their calls. John James Autobon, the namesake of the

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Speaker 1: Autobon Society, had a first time account of a passenger

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Speaker 1: pigeon flock that stretched continuously for over fifty miles as

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Speaker 1: he traveled and continued for three days. He estimated at

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Speaker 1: times three hundred million pigeons passed him each hour. We

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Speaker 1: eradicated this species and only forty years down to the

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Speaker 1: last bird, Martha, who lived outter days in the Cincinnati Zoo.

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Speaker 1: Now nobody specifically calls out the fact that pigeon poop

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Speaker 1: led to the extirpation of the passenger pigeon, but I'm

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Speaker 1: sure it didn't help their case. People haven't changed that much.

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Speaker 1: But back to grizzlies, I for one think that having

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Speaker 1: these bears in the woods has enhanced my outdoor experience.

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Speaker 1: Growing up in Montana, I spent a lot of time

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Speaker 1: in the woods, and all that time has provided exactly

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Speaker 1: three genuine close calls with exactly eight grizzlies and a

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Speaker 1: handful of other run ins that were just a bit

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Speaker 1: too close for comfort. But neither I nor anyone else

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Speaker 1: in my party have been scratched up or stomped on

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Speaker 1: by one. I imagine my opinion of bears might be

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Speaker 1: different if something like that had happened, But then again,

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Speaker 1: maybe not. In both of these recent instances, the hunters

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Speaker 1: involved chose to use sidearms instead of bear spray as

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Speaker 1: a self defense measure. Has previously reported here on The

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Speaker 1: Weekend Review. Bear spray is not magic. There is no

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Speaker 1: guarantee it will deter a bear, but studies have shown

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Speaker 1: bear spray to be far more effective than handguns. Additionally,

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Speaker 1: bear spray is much less likely to leave a wounded

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Speaker 1: grizzly in the woods and a firearm. I'm not valuing

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Speaker 1: bear life over human life as much as I'm saying

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Speaker 1: a wounded bear is more likely to cause trouble out

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Speaker 1: of desperation than a bear that got a snout full

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Speaker 1: of burning, stinging capsation. You know that mouth tingling stuff

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Speaker 1: that gets to you with any pepper. Additionally, most people

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Speaker 1: are not trained in either the rapid deployment of a

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Speaker 1: to become accurate and proficient with one, Especially while several

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Speaker 1: hundred pounds of menacing, imposing mama bear is coming at you.

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Speaker 1: Most folks would call that a stressful city situation. As

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Speaker 1: I am no firearm expert, I thought I would reach

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Speaker 1: out to one friend of mine, a major Taylor United

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Speaker 1: States Marine Corps retired. Just to touch on his bona fides,

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Speaker 1: he was eight years as a Marine Special Operator a

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Speaker 1: k A. Marine Raider and brief summary. He related to

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Speaker 1: me that during Special operators basic training, they will spend

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Speaker 1: one and a half months out of nine months just

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Speaker 1: training on rifle and pistol two weeks rifle, two weeks

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Speaker 1: pistol two weeks combined. To qualify and move on in

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Speaker 1: the program, they must engage human targets at twenty five

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Speaker 1: yards transitioning from rifle to pistol. That's draw put two

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Speaker 1: frequent and more in depth. Now you may be thinking

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Speaker 1: these folks that go through that type of training or

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Speaker 1: the pros. But isn't that how we like to think

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Speaker 1: of ourselves in the woods. The transition between pistol and

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Speaker 1: pistol or bear spray. You may not think it would

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Speaker 1: matter on a large bear to hit the target equivalent

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Speaker 1: of a six inch spot. But as most hunters have experienced,

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Speaker 1: accuracy is what stops things. These guys and gals are

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Speaker 1: training to put two minuscule projectiles about the size of

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Speaker 1: the last bone on your pinky finger distal phalangi on

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Speaker 1: a target at about seventy ft. Most bear spread is

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Speaker 1: propelling the deterrent in a cone shaped cloud that expands

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Speaker 1: at distance, remaining effective out to a thirty or thirty

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Speaker 1: bear spray, which this is not an endorsement of that

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Speaker 1: type of bear spray, It's just that they had the

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Speaker 1: site that had the chart. Ud Doubt states that at

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Speaker 1: five ft, the diameter of the bear spray will be

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Speaker 1: twenty nine inches by one inches. At thirty ft it

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Speaker 1: will be ches by a hundred nineteen inches. That's roughly

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Speaker 1: the size of a Boo boo size bear at five

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Speaker 1: ft and a foot, taller than your average refrigerator and

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Speaker 1: almost three times as wide. At thirty ft, that's bigger

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Speaker 1: than your average bear. Based off of the side of

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Speaker 1: the quote, projectile alone, what are you more likely to

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Speaker 1: I care, but I go with the math first, and

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Speaker 1: the math says bear spray. One last thing on this

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Speaker 1: I called Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and spoke with

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Speaker 1: a very nice person named Laurie who told me that

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Speaker 1: in extreme cases, when a bear has already attacked a person,

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Speaker 1: the person has been able to spray bear spray when

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Speaker 1: they would not be able to discharge a firearm. The

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Speaker 1: spray would also cover themselves, but it had been effective

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Speaker 1: at the turning the attack. Laurie also added, I would

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Speaker 1: first I'm gonna tell you about my week I've been

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Speaker 1: following along. You know that I've been to the beautiful

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Speaker 1: best to hold nothing back and give the real details

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Speaker 1: the first time I got charged by a grizzly bear.

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Speaker 1: Just so, nobody in the Gravelly Range thanks, I'm picking

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Speaker 1: Charley Daniels song Uneasy Writer, their heads were on fire

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Speaker 1: This is really gonna happen. However, I had these two amazing,

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Speaker 1: Everyone is ecstatic about the return of porpoises to the

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