Humans and bears - Wild encounters

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The Grizzly Bear by William H. Wright ( 1909 )... Wright began as a bear hunter, and an extraordinarily successful one. He pitted his own strength, endurance, ingenuity, skill, knowledge, and craftiness against that of the grizzlies. He met them on equal terms, killing most of his grizzlies with a one-shot Winchester and following them for days and weeks at a time, seeking them out, not drawing them in with baits. Only an exceptionally skilled hunter could have accomplished what he did in the course of a hunting career. His most remarkable achievement as a hunter was killing five grizzlies with five shots, which he called, "the greatest bag of grizzlies that I have ever made single-handed." From this time on Wright's interest turned from killing grizzlies to studying them. He said, "If one really wishes to study an animal, let him go without a gun"; he set aside his rifle, took up photography, *and continued to learn all he could about the grizzly. His book shows a hunter becoming a naturalist: Wright first studied the grizzly in order to hunt him, then he came to hunt him in order to study him.   Reply