Wife can't load shotgun uses it to club bear attacking hubby

[308Mike]

I bet she know how to load it NOW!! Personally, I think he was an idiot to not want to teach her how to use it in the first place. From watching the story video at the link, the guy shows a double-barrel SxS, what he referred to as his "grouse gun."

Wife who can't load shotgun uses it to club bear attacking husband
Published May 17, 2013 | FoxNews.com

A Wisconsin woman saved her husband from an attacking black bear outside of their cabin by hitting the animal with a gun, authorities said.

Fox 11 reports that Gerre Ninnemann initially saw the bear running after his dog, Maddy, on Wednesday. He then went outside the Silver Cliff cabin to summon the 8-year-old yellow lab inside, but the bear chased and tackled Ninnemann, biting and clawing at his back.

“I came running out into the yard here, shouting, waving my arms at the bear, thinking that would care him away,” the retired financial planner told the station. “But it didn’t. All it did was leave the dog and come right for me.”

Ninnemann briefly escaped and ran to the corner of the cabin, but the bear mauled him again. Ninnemann's wife, Marie, then found a shotgun in the cabin’s basement, but she didn’t know how to load it properly. She instead took the weapon outside the struck the bear on its head, allowing her husband to escape. The couple then backtracked into the cabin with the gun pointed at the bear.

“Now the bear is right at the front door and at the windows,” Gerre Ninneman said.

The bear, which was only a year old, then continued to circle the cabin and looked into its windows. A responding deputy later shot and killed the animal with "one shot," Gerre Ninneman said.

Ninneman suffered bite marks from his waist to the back of his head and required staples to close some wounds. He was hospitalized but is expected to recover, as is the couple's dog.

The bear, meanwhile, was being checked for rabies in Madison during a necropsy to determine what may have prompted the attack, Department of Natural Resources supervisor John Huff said.

“Generally, bears avoid encounters,” Huff told the station. “We’re not really sure why the bear made the decision it did. It was a bad decision.”

Bear attacks are extremely rare in the area. There have only been a few attacks in Wisconsin in recent decades, Huff told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Ninneman said he’ll now teach his wife how to properly load and fire a shotgun.

“I owe her my life,” he said.

[Captain Wheelgun]

But... But... Isn't this the weapon our beloved Vice President said is perfect for women to use for defense???

[Rich]

Sometimes the reason a woman can't use a gun is because she absolutely refuses to learn. My sainted mother refused to even have a working rifle or shotgun in the house, and the only reason my father was able to bring his Colt .41 revolver in was because he didn't tell her. When I went overseas, I had to store my AR-15 in a trunk in the garage.

The only reason I was allowed to keep my Arisaka in the house was that she thought it was still disabled by soldering the cleaning rod in the barrel. She never knew I had disabled the disable.

Strangely enough, she had no qualms about me going hunting with a trusted neighbor.

[Aesop]

Sorry, this isn't a story about a gun-illiterate woman.

This is a story about once again thwarting Darwin.

"I came running out into the yard here, shouting, waving my arms at the bear, thinking that would scare him away"

Yeah, because the native ferocity of retired financial planners, to a bear's simple mind, overcomes the part of his brain that sees everything as a food group, including this braindead meat popsicle. Not.

I say : Attempted Darwin Award - Honorable Mention.

And I hope he's got an African safari planned soon, and that this time, they YouTube his antics.

[Darrell]

The damn shotgun should have been loaded in the first place.

[308Mike]

The damn shotgun should have been loaded in the first place.

+100 ESPECIALLY in that area, which apparently already had seen MANY close bear encounters. Watch the video and you'll see what kind of an area they live in, out in the woods with wild animals nearby.

[skb12172]

Sorry, this isn't a story about a gun-illiterate woman.

This is a story about once again thwarting Darwin.

"I came running out into the yard here, shouting, waving my arms at the bear, thinking that would scare him away"

Yeah, because the native ferocity of retired financial planners, to a bear's simple mind, overcomes the part of his brain that sees everything as a food group, including this braindead meat popsicle. Not.

I say : Attempted Darwin Award - Honorable Mention.

And I hope he's got an African safari planned soon, and that this time, they YouTube his antics.

You Magnificent Bastard...you owe me a keyboard.

[Netpackrat]

"I came running out into the yard here, shouting, waving my arms at the bear, thinking that would scare him away"

Yeah, because the native ferocity of retired financial planners, to a bear's simple mind, overcomes the part of his brain that sees everything as a food group, including this braindead meat popsicle. Not.

Yeah, that was a fail. It should, however, be noted that black bears are pussies and normally will run away when chased by (or at the sight of) a human. It's stupid to assume that in all cases that is what will happen, since if you know what a bear is going to do next, you probably know more than the bear does.

[arctictom]

A swing and a miss by active natural selection , they were lucky and a more persistent bear would have chewed on them.

[Aesop]

I blame Disney and public education, etc.

This tard probably grew up thinking Bagheera and Ballou were based on reality, rather than noting that when presented with a 600-pound omnivore with fangs, claws, and a nasty disposition he was now lower on the food pyramid, and that, in the words of John Pinette, "Ben was not so Gentle".

This vignette also illustrates precisely the tried-and-proven Rescue 9-1-1 Plot Formula:
Intractable Forces Of Nature + Gross Human Stupidity = Melodrama

e.g.
Cat III Hurricane + Clueless Dumbass in little boat
or
Rattlesnake in the yard + unattended toddler
or
Summer lightning storm + man carrying 20' metal pole across a pond
etc., etc.

But maybe instead of financial planning, he should have tried another occupation.
Clearly, this guy does have his own hat.