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Witness to roadside bear shooting recalls 'fiasco'

Published: October 28th, 2009 08:41 AM
Last Modified: October 29th, 2009 09:19 AM

Link: Redoubt Reporter The shooting of a brown bear from the shoulder of the Sterling Highway near Cooper Landing three weeks ago -- watched by passers-by who had been photographing the bear as well as two state troopers who were directing traffic -- is still under investigation, says U.S. Fish and Wildlife. But one hunter who witnessed the event was so disgusted by the other hunters' actions that he has gone public with new details of the incident. "I've never seen such a fiasco in my life as this was. I don't know what other words to use, other than just an absolute joke," says Jerry Holly. "I have no trouble with hunting and I'm an avid hunter myself. But if that was hunting, I'm a jet pilot." Most egregious, Holly says, was the shooters' carelessness in aiming as they continued to fire on the bear while it rolled down an embankment and into the ditch. Fish and Wildlife cited one of the hunters for shooting in a closed area and seized the carcass.

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