OT: 5-Year-Old Boy Kills Bear 12 Times His Size

Who was it that was talking shit about Davy Crockett??

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12/11/2007 9:49 AM -- Tre Merritt 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 .5 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.

<pugetsounddiver@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Who was it that was talking shit about Davy Crockett??
>
> **********************************************
>
> 12/11/2007 9:49 AM -- Tre Merritt 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."


He shot it!!!!!


Bugger I thought this was going to be an interesting story

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"dechucka" <dechucka@vomithotmail.com> wrote in message
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> He shot it!!!!!

> Bugger I thought this was going to be an interesting story

What a sad fuck you are.

If you had bear, which you don't;

If you had rifles in the hands of young men, which you don't;

If you had a history going back further than his granddad, which you don't;

I would worry whether or not you were interested, which I don't.

"Scott" <pugetsounddiver@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "dechucka" <dechucka@vomithotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:47605ef9$0$25513$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
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>> He shot it!!!!!
>
>> Bugger I thought this was going to be an interesting story
>
> What a sad fuck you are.
>
> If you had bear, which you don't;

no bears in Australia

>
> If you had rifles in the hands of young men, which you don't;

5 years old that is about when I started shooting and when my kids did ( but
true they are girls )

>
> If you had a history going back further than his granddad, which you
> don't;

actually I do, can trace my family on my fathers side back to before white
man walked on what is now the USA ( discounting Eric the Red or whatever his
name was )

>
> I would worry whether or not you were interested, which I don't.

I just thought he was going to wrestle it or do something interesting but he
shot it. A good shot for a 5 yo it seems and probably a bigger calibre rifle
used than I used as a kid or my kids use but shit eh he shot it. Sorry don't
find that interesting or exciting but I'm sure some do.

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> "Scott" <pugetsounddiver@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> "dechucka" <dechucka@vomithotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:47605ef9$0$25513$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
>>
>>> He shot it!!!!!
>>
>>> Bugger I thought this was going to be an interesting story
>>
>> What a sad fuck you are.
>>
>> If you had bear, which you don't;
>
> no bears in Australia
>
>>
>> If you had rifles in the hands of young men, which you don't;
>
> 5 years old that is about when I started shooting and when my kids did (
> but true they are girls )
>
>>
>> If you had a history going back further than his granddad, which you
>> don't;
>
> actually I do, can trace my family on my fathers side back to before white
> man walked on what is now the USA ( discounting Eric the Red or whatever
> his name was )
>
>>
>> I would worry whether or not you were interested, which I don't.
>
> I just thought he was going to wrestle it or do something interesting but
> he shot it. A good shot for a 5 yo it seems and probably a bigger calibre
> rifle used than I used as a kid or my kids use but shit eh he shot it.
> Sorry don't find that interesting or exciting but I'm sure some do.

BTW are u posting from 2 addresses?
>
>

"dechucka" <dechucka@vomithotmail.com> wrote in message
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> BTW are u posting from 2 addresses?

Cant slip nothin past you...

"Scott" <pugetsounddiver@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "dechucka" <dechucka@vomithotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>> BTW are u posting from 2 addresses?
>
> Cant slip nothin past you...

So that's where the Royal "WE" comes from, you're referring to both your
posting address and I thought it was both your personas

hls

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> "Scott" <pugetsounddiver@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> > "dechucka" <dechucka@vomithotmail.com> wrote in message
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> >
> >> BTW are u posting from 2 addresses?
> >
> > Cant slip nothin past you...
>
> So that's where the Royal "WE" comes from, you're referring to both your
> posting address and I thought it was both your personas


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On Dec 12, 5:21 pm, "dechucka" <dechu...@vomithotmail.com> wrote:
> <pugetsounddi...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> > Who was it that was talking shit about Davy Crockett??
>
> > **********************************************
>
> > 12/11/2007 9:49 AM -- Tre Merritt 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."
>
> He shot it!!!!!
>
> Bugger I thought this was going to be an interesting story
>
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The one story on MSN that I read said the 5 yr old's daddy taught him
to use a gun when he was two years old. Good thing that kid used his
shooting talents for good and not evil.... so far.