| 11th December 2007 03:52 PM |
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| gimmekeef |
Start the killin young!
5-year-old descendant of Davy Crockett kills bear
Tre Merrit bags 445-pound black bear while hunting with grandfather
By Heather Crawford
Courtesy of KATV/Little Rock
5-year-old kills 445-pound bear. Courtesy of KATV Little RockDEWITT, Ark. — A 5-year-old Arkansas County boy killed a black bear Sunday weighing more than 400 pounds.
Tre Merritt, a descendant of Davy Crockett, was hunting with his grandfather Mike Merritt when a black bear happened upon their stand.
"His 10th great-grandfather was Davy Crockett," Mike Merritt said. "And Davy supposedly killed him a bear when he was three. And Tre is five and really killed a bear. I really doubt if Davy killed one when he was three."
Mike Merritt was in the stand at the time but said Tre did it all by himself.
"He came in about 40 to 50 yards," Mike Merritt said of the black bear, "and when he got in the open, I whistled at him and he stopped and I said, 'Shoot Tre.'"
Tre confirmed his grandfather's account.
"I was up in the stand and I seen the bear," Tre Merritt said. "It came from the thicket and it was beside the road and I shot it."
At first, Mike Merritt didn't think Tre had hit the bear with his youth rifle.
"I said, 'Tre, you missed the bear,' " Mike Merritt said. "He said, 'Paw-paw I squeezed the trigger and I didn't close my eyes. I killed him."'
The bear turned out to be 445 pounds — 12 times the weight of Tre. Mike Merritt said tears rolled down his cheeks when he found out his grandson killed the enormous bear.
Tre Merritt's father said he began teaching his son to shoot when he was just 2 ½ years old, and said Tre killed three deer last year.
The family plans to get a life-sized mount of the bear, but where they will put has yet to be determined.
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| 12th December 2007 02:51 PM |
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| M.O.W.A.T. |
Sounds like an episode of my favorite tv show:
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| 12th December 2007 03:37 PM |
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| Brainbell Jangler |
quote:
M.O.W.A.T. wrote:
Sounds like an episode of my favorite tv show:
Some folk will never eat a skunk,
But then again, some folk'll,
Like Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel!
Some folk will never lose a toe,
But then again, some folk'll,
Like Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel! |
| 12th December 2007 04:50 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Good Gawd! Who gives a fuck about a bear? Bears are the gypsies of the animal kingdom...always stealing shit. The only good bear is a dead bear.
[Edited by Ten Thousand Motels] |
| 12th December 2007 04:58 PM |
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| GayB |
You're anti bear stance scares me !!! |
| 12th December 2007 05:20 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
A victim of global warming....melted bear.
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