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Show LOCAL HUNTER BAGS BEAR IN DRY CANYON The oft chanted "Bearle isn't out tonight" game played by children child-ren in the back yard was reenact-ed reenact-ed early Saturday morning for Ray Klauck and his wife, only quite in a realistic way. It all happened when Mr. and Mrs. Klauck were up Dry Canyon of Hobble Creek, anxiously hunting out a nice big buck. They had gone some two and a half miles into the canyon when Mr. Klauck came face to face with a big brown bear. His first shot hit the bear in the chest and caused caus-ed it to rise majestically and to advance after his killer. Mr. Klauck said he wasn't exactly calm at that moment in fact, ne siaiea ne could think of nothing else but to start running, and that he did. After he ran a short distance, he remembered he still had his gun and, reloading it, he fired another shot which apparently struck the bear in the shoulder, as it began rolling down the hill. A shot was fired each time the bear rolled over, but nary a hit. The bear, however, died and the thrill-packed episode was at an end. What followed fol-lowed was 2 miles of toting the bear down to the car and getting it to a taxidermist to be made into a beautiful rug. The female animal weighed approximately 225 pounds, and was Play's first bear. Mrs. Frank Crandall and Lloyd Hen-drickson Hen-drickson were with the Klaucks. |