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http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/h...ory?id=3150157
Tre Merrit bags 445-pound black bear while hunting with grandfather
DEWITT, Ark. — A 5-year-old Arkansas County boy killed a black bear Sunday weighing more than 400 pounds.
Tre Merritt, a descendant of Davy Crockett, was hunting with his grandfather Mike Merritt when a black bear happened upon their stand.
"His 10th great-grandfather was Davy Crockett," Mike Merritt said. "And Davy supposedly killed him a bear when he was three. And Tre is five and really killed a bear. I really doubt if Davy killed one when he was three."
Mike Merritt was in the stand at the time but said Tre did it all by himself.
"He came in about 40 to 50 yards," Mike Merritt said of the black bear, "and when he got in the open, I whistled at him and he stopped and I said, 'Shoot Tre.'"
Tre confirmed his grandfather's account.
"I was up in the stand and I seen the bear," Tre Merritt said. "It came from the thicket and it was beside the road and I shot it."
At first, Mike Merritt didn't think Tre had hit the bear with his youth rifle.
"I said, 'Tre, you missed the bear,' " Mike Merritt said. "He said, 'Paw-paw I squeezed the trigger and I didn't close my eyes. I killed him."'
The bear turned out to be 445 pounds — 12 times the weight of Tre. Mike Merritt said tears rolled down his cheeks when he found out his grandson killed the enormous bear.
Tre Merritt's father said he began teaching his son to shoot when he was just 2 ½ years old, and said Tre killed three deer last year.
The family plans to get a life-sized mount of the bear, but where they will put has yet to be determined.
DeWitt is in rural eastern Arkansas, close to the Mississippi River bottoms and near Stuttgart, the Duck Hunting Capitol of the World.
Davy Crockett was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician; usually referred to as "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the age of 49 at the Battle of the Alamo.
Crockett passed through Arkansas on his way from Tennessee to Texas in 1835. While at a Little Rock (Pulaski County) banquet given in his honor, he reportedly stated, "If I could rest anywhere it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grow nowhere else on the face of the universal earth but just around the backbone of North America."
Robert Crockett, one of Davy Crockett's grandsons, became the first mayor of Stuttgart (Arkansas County) after the town incorporated in 1889. The village of Crockett's Bluff (Arkansas County) was named in honor of Robert Crockett.
Two years late, by my cypherin'...
pfft ...Jim Bowie's great grandson killed a 2 headed lion with finger nail clippers
Don't forget your "goesinta's"
4 goesinta 12 3 times
5 goesinta 20 4 times
And who the keeps track of 10th great grandfathers?
, if you go back that far, we're ALL related to Davy Crockett.
gayest story i've read today
Would have been better if he killed the bear with his hands.
I was pretty proud of my 4 year old when he tried the fried alligator at Pappadeaux's the other day.
Now....not so much.
Murderer.
Where was this kid 170 years ago? Maybe if he was in the Alamo they wouldn't have been destroyed by the Mexican army.
WTF? What did the bear do to get killed? ing bear meat eating rednecks! I'd slap the out of that little for killing a defensless animal.
I call bull . What 5 year old says "thicket?"
I'd rather the bear cut that little 's throat. 5 yr olds don't need to be hunting, I don't give a where you live
Wait, the Mexicans came to fight? , I thought we were pouring concrete today.Where was this kid 170 years ago? Maybe if he was in the Alamo they wouldn't have been destroyed by the Mexican army.
Sincerely,
Jim Bowie
Yeah no doubt....what the did the bear do....rednecks hunting bears. And big deal about killing a bear when you're 5....that's the whole point of guns...the greatest equalizer.
@ medvedenko taking the bear's side.
I'd wager we are all descended from someone that killed something.
Yeah in order to survive/find food/maybe even clothes
But this is just killing a bear for no apparent reason at all. I mean red necks did it to the buffalo as well, the red skins were at least able to let the buffalo survive, but when the rednecks came they just couldn't help it and nearly killed them all. In all seriousness this kid is not bad ass, because he used a GUN, anybody can do it, if they had a gun. Now if you wrestled a bear into submission and made it run away......then you are a bad ass ala Jerimiah Springfield.
Last edited by E20; 12-12-2007 at 05:00 PM.
I'm too nice.
It was a 445 lb black bear. That is HUGE black bear. Nice trophy.
Last edited by tlongII; 12-13-2007 at 11:26 AM.
He's not the only one.
Medved in Russian means bear. Medvedenko would be something like "of the bear" or "bear-like".He's not the only one.
It's a worrisome trend, because where do you go from here? It's one thing if you start hunting as teenager with deer and move up to more dangerous animals as you grow, but if you're 5 years old and take down a bear? You know this kids going to end up hunting humans by the time he's in his 20's.
I DID NOT KNOW THAT.
What's "Shoogar" in Russian?
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