West Virginia Mascot's Gun is the REAL Deal!

[NDdomer2]

West Virginia’s mascot shoots and kills a black bear with the musket we all thought was a prop | Dr. Saturday - Yahoo! Sports

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[chicago51]

Wow!

 

[FLDomer]

That is awesome...its kinda a wee bear though.

 

[Rhode Irish]

This story is over a week old. That douchebag shot a baby little cub of a bear. Supposedly the kid has been asked not to murder any more baby bears using school-issued weaponry, which is a pretty decent response from WVU compared to what would have been expected.

Note that I don't hate hunting or hunters, but I feel the same way about using dogs to chase a cub into a tree to trap it before shooting it as I do about sitting in a tree fort and luring an animal over to it and shooting it at close range. It's unethical and takes any element of "sport" out of it. If you're hunting because you're into the thrill of the chase and the nature aspects, fine. But if killing is your only motivation you are a sociopath. Hard to watch that video and think this kid doesn't belong in a facility.

 

[IrishInFl]

Bear is delicious, no gamy taste. I'm jealous of this mountain man. Venison (deer meat) has different tastes depending on where the deer are. Venison from Florida is delicious, in Minnesota it's gamy and gross.

 

[Irishnuke]

Wow that is a small bear. Maybe he thought it was going to be a really good bear and then it turned out to be a disappointing one, much like WVU's football team.

 

[FLDomer]

Maybe he thought he was squirrel hunting...he is from WV.

 

[tadman95]

Black bears around here, NC, VA, WV, are not that big, not monsters like their western cousins. I didn't see the story but I wasn't thinking it was a baby until RI said so. Still don't believe it was that young.

Not a big fan of using dogs on larger game unless it's truly subsistence hunting.

Knew a guy that use to go to Canada every year to deer hunt. He stayed at a hunting camp where the owner kept a buffalo in a large corral. A well-to-do hunter came in, negotiated with the owner and paid him $10,000 to hunt the buffalo. The hunter laid his gun on the top rail and shot it, then threw a party at the lodge.