Virginia hunter dies after a bear falls on him

[ducks4days]

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5044878-virginia-man-bear-hunting-death/

What a crazy way to die.

[Machias]

That's one way to go.

[mountainman]

I’ve been on many hound hunts. Never been even close to that happening! Wrong place, wrong time..

[brokentrail]

The "hunter" that shot that bear doesn't sound like an established bear hunter or houndsman as almost all tie dogs back, get everyone clear of the tree and then have the shooter shoot the bear.  I pray for his friends and family but he did die doing something he loved.

[C-Money]

Man, thats a tough one...Yikes!

[dilleytech]

Pretty crazy to think someone could make a mistake that easily avoidable.

[yakimanoob]

Reminds me of the lady that tripped and fell and was impaled through the eye/brain on her metal straw.

There are 8 billion of us. That's a lotta ways to die 

[pianoman9701]

When I was in the mushroom and gourmet ingredient business, one of our pickers dropped his knife in a USFS toilet and drowned when he fell in head first trying to retrieve it. I'd rather have a bear fall on me.

[follow maggie]

I guess when it’s your time, it’s your time.

[CedarPants]

When I was in the mushroom and gourmet ingredient business, one of our pickers dropped his knife in a USFS toilet and drowned when he fell in head first trying to retrieve it. I'd rather have a bear fall on me.

I audibly gasped when I read this and now won't be able to sleep for a week 

[actionshooter]

When I was in the mushroom and gourmet ingredient business, one of our pickers dropped his knife in a USFS toilet and drowned when he fell in head first trying to retrieve it. I'd rather have a bear fall on me.

That is seriously one hell of a story.... wow

[bearpaw]

I nearly had this happen once on a Washington bear hunt several years ago.

My dogs were chasing a large boar, we finally caught it up high on a mountain far from any roads. It was a long hike in, the hunter was a guy from back east and his wife was along on the hunt too. After a long hike we were getting close, I reminded everyone to be quiet as we approached, sometimes game gets too nervous when humans approach, I didn't want this bear jumping out and have to chase it again and maybe not catch it again, plus I don't think the guy could have walked much further.

I told them we would approach quietly and tie the dogs back and then we would tell the hunter when to shoot while we videoed him shooting. We got to the tree, an extra large larch tree, the bear was on the lowest limbs about 40ish feet up, the dogs are all close to the bottom of the tree looking up and barking loudly at the bear, we quietly started leashing dogs to tie back, the guy's wife was right there with us too, suddenly boom, I look up and the bear is falling towards us, I yelled at his wife "move" and she jumps back, the bear hits the ground right beside us, barely missing his wife. I asked the guy "why in the hell did you shoot before we told you", he had some lame excuse that the bear moved a little bit and he thought it might jump out. I told him "you nearly killed your wife" and I'm sure he knew it, he said very little after that.

It was an approx. 350ish pound bear, it was all the group could do to carry out the skin and quarters, had it landed on the poor lady it would have seriously hurt her or possibly killed her.

When hunting, sometimes people get shook up and just don't think. I suspect it was a similar scenario in Virginia except the poor guy who was still leashing his dogs at the bottom of the tree didn't get a chance to jump back.