This is not hunting! This is murder! If you have to hunt, it should be a skill and a sport. If the Wildlife people don’t fine this creep, something is very wrong!

Bear lover,

This isn’t sport – it is murder by entrapment. How could anyone kill a bear who is just trying to go to sleep for the winter. There needs to be new rules.

This is very sad! It is one thing to hunt as a sport in Colorado, but to go into a bears den and murder him is outrageous!
I can understand if he was a menace or a threat to people then the wildlife division can deal with him, but to go kill a bear in its den is wrong. There must be rules to protect our wildlife in their homes!

So would it have been cool if he’d waited for the bear to come out? I don’t see the difference. He tracked the bear back to the den and probably didn’t get the shot until the bear had gone inside. I think it took a lot of balls to crawl into the bears den. The real skill in hunting is in finding and tracking the animal until you can get a shot.

Maybe go to this guy’s house and kill him while he sleeps

Hunter and Mr. Kendall there is a special place for you two when you leave this Earth.

This is definitely the lowest of the low. And hunters can’t understand why they are not liked or respected. Hunters always say they are helpng the species but in reality they kill the largest and best for trophies and leave the weak to breed. I wonder if this guy would go after a child also. They shoot their high powered rifles next to my home and then the DOW protects them. Who is protecting the wildlife?

There is no skill in hunting when the food provided from the kill is not necessary in the society we live in. You are killing for the sake of killing. It is ridiculous, we are not a Hunter/Gatherer society, there is no reasoning for this when you have King Soopers. Why not take up hiking or backpacking if you want to go outdoors. It is lunacy that I need to even argue this.

Wow, what a winner! Maybe he found the cubs and killed them too just for good measure. Skill in hunting?? LOL, you being serious…then why are their deer feeders? What about that schmuck who killed the friendly bull elk in Estes? You are both the same, absolute trash. Karma is a biatch that works slow.

Tracking in this day in age is not that hard. A bear would have a hard time making it to Wyoming, Canada, or Montana these days. Ever heard of the Yukon to Yellowstone Initiative Hunter??? Probably not because you sound like a moron. It was created to give these large carnivores enough room to roam and live like they have in the past. The thought of having to cordon off land so these wonderful creatures can roam freely refutes your idiotic statement that they are hard to track. Maybe back in the early 1900s, but not know. Moron.

the person in interview saying him as gentleman and smiling buther with snap what a double joke

I agree with Ted, if you want to go hunting for big game, next time take a camara instead of a gun!!! Hunting is NOT a sport!

This hunter played by the rules, he bought a license, he tracked and killed what he was looking for. Every carnivorous animal hunts and they don’t play by rules it’s a game of chance and he came out on top. Rules are set in place by the division of wildlife to help create a positive balance in the state. And it works. Just because you buy all your food in a grocery store doesn’t mean that the food your eating doesn’t tell a similar story. I commend this hunter on this kill and hope it taste delicious.

Big cowardly man has to shoot a bear in a den. Well I hope he feels good about himself you see because it’s all about him!!! He doesn’t care that he took a life! He could care less about wildlife because he’s a big man who bagged a bear in a den, the bear was probably sleeping. This guy should go to jail for what he did!! This should be illegal! But he is so proud! He will get what’s coming to him someday and I hope you suffer!!

Hunting is not and should’nt be a sport. Me big man with super fast gun. Not at all cool.

Hey folks. We may not agree with what this man did, but we don’t need to be so nasty about it. We don’t know anything about him other than that he killed a bear. Why are people condemning him to eternal damnation for shooting a bear? Might he have made a mistake? Perhaps. Have you ever made a mistake? Do you think you should go to hell for it?????

Nothing in this story said he killed it for food.

Ernest Hemingway always belived if you want to hunt the prey shoud have an even chance of killing you as you have of killing it. So if you want to go bear hunting, go with just a knife. You kill a bear with with only a knife then you have something to brag about.

Hand to paw combat is the only way to settle this.

Man builds home in natural bear breeding ground. Bear kills man……..darwinism at it’s finest. Duh………

Look at the smile on that man’s face. This is terrible!! He went into the bear’s den and murdered it for no reason other than self glory. What an ignorant pig. What a creep. What a redneck!!

Killing a bear in its den while it is asleep or preparing for hibernation is not a thing that any really ethical hunter or sportsman would do. “Tracking through the snow” is a nice idea, but this entire incident does little to promote the concept of sportsmanship and casts a poor light on the whole hunting community.
As a hunter, I would like to apologize for this individuals actions and state this is not the norm for true hunters/sportsmen who support wildlife conservation and management through voluntary taxation and contributions.

Hmmm, Maybe someone should go into this guy’s house and shoot him while he’s sleeping.

Beautiful bear! Great job! This man followed every law he was required to. He waited for an opportunity to present itself and when it didn’t, he took action. Would any of you southern California bleeding heart liberals have the gumption to go into a bear den when you KNEW a 700 pound bear was in there waiting for you? I didn’t think so! Go back to where you came from and leave this amazing state to us natives who made it what it is!

All of these comments are literally wrong and misinformation.

1) It is illegal not to take the meat when hunting game.
2) It is illegal to kill the sow (female) with cubs.
3) For this bear to reach this size, it is mature and has been for some time. It has has “opportunity” to propagate the species. It may have done so.
4) We are a hunter-gatherer society. Everything you and I consume from water on up is diverted from what would be the natural setting. If you eat meat or meat products, it comes from animals and either impacts or kills the animal or affects the ecosystem around the animal. If you eat plants, they are killed or the seeds (offspring) are killed again affecting the ecosystem. And because we are here on earth, we change all ecosystems to provide for ourselves and offspring.
5) Hunting and fishing provide the funds that the DOW needs to protect and provide habitat for these beautiful creatures. Please donate to these agencies at any time and don’t forget comes tax refund time.
6) You have literally two choices in how you see humans: Either we’re natural (evolved) and part of nature and therefore everything we do is natural. Or we’re supernatural and all of nature was created for our use. Not to say that we shouldn’t do everything we reasonably can to protect it.

Please be reasonable.

Michi, You’re an idiot.