Today I dropped by Cabellas to get a few things I need before my February Yellowstone trip.

In the camo department, there was a large monitor showing a blonde woman (not that different from myself) approaching a black bear. The scene - at first - really didn't seem much different from me with the bear in my photo above.

However, the woman in the video was stalking the bear with a bow & arrow - not a camera. "There's his first mistake", she proclaimed. "He is off his guard and has put himself right in my sights." Indeed, it was a big mistake for that bear. She shot an arrow into his mid section. The bear yelped in pain and ran. She calmly followed and proceeded to put two more arrows into the bear's body; thus bringing him down. Shuttering, I walked away and went to look for what I had originally gone to the store for. The next time that I passed the screen, the blonde woman was kneeling over the bear with one knee on his side and his limp head in her hands. A male companion, now also on the screen, was holding the bear's dangling, front paws up for the video camera.

I do realize that people hunt for food & I have no problem with that fact. Plus I realize that there is a good reason to cull a certain percentage of overpopulated, wild animals through hunting. Still seeing that woman "bag a bear", made me a little sad. Guess I'd never make a wild game hunter.

Instead, I am posting one of my Black Bear photographs today. A camera is the ONLY way that "this" blonde woman will ever shoot a bear.

Visit my Black Bear Gallery: http://www.pbase.com/britestar/wild_black_bears_in_nature