An Alaskan man killed a 9-foot brown bear with a handgun after the bear tried to break into his home twice in the early morning of July 7.
Jim Landess and his 17-year-old son, Montana, woke up around 3:30 a.m. to the loud pounding sound of a brown bear against their house on Bunno Road on the eastern edge of Sterling.
"There was some loud banging on one of my windows in the first level and pounding on my walls which shook the whole house," Landess said. "My son was sleeping downstairs and stood up to be eye-level with a 9-foot brown bear looking at him through the dining room window."
Landess said he looked outside from his upstairs window and saw the bear peeking over the bed of his pickup. He yelled at the bear and his dog barked, which caused the bear to run into the woods.
Landess then went outside to get a gun from his truck, but while outside, the bear came back around to the end of his driveway and started to walk back toward him.
Landess and his son both shot a few rounds and the bear ran back into the woods.
They went back inside and went to bed. But then at around 6 a.m., Landess heard more banging sounds in front of his house as the bear tried to get inside.
Landess grabbed his .45 calibre handgun and stepped out onto his upper deck, took aim and fired seven rounds at the bear's vitals. He said the bear "got crazy" and ran about 50 feet before it collapsed.
Landess said there have been several instances of bears on his property, but this was the first time one was ever this aggressive. "I'm not a hunter; I'm a fisherman," he said. "It wasn't something I wanted to do. I wanted to scare him off."
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