Crocket's descendant kills bear. At 5!!!

[hockeybum]

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/7552180?MSNHPHCP&GT1=10734

Legend has it Davy Crockett killed a bear when he was three. A distant relative of the 19th-century frontiersman has done the same thing at five.

Tre Merritt, a 5-year-old boy from Arkansas, killed a black bear Sunday, according to his grandfather.

"(The bear) came in about 40 to 50 yards," Mike Merritt, Tre's grandfather, told KATV of Little Rock, Ark, "and when he got in the open, I whistled at him and he stopped and I said, 'Shoot Tre.' "

And that's what his grandson did, killing the 400-pound animal.

"I was up in the stand and I seen the bear," Tre Merritt told KATV. "It came from the thicket and it was beside the road and I shot it."

According to the report, Tre's father said his son began shooting when he was 2 1/2 and killed three deer last year. What else would you expect from a decendant of the "King of the Wild Frontier?"


"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."

 

[karrotx]

Uh...cool?

 

[def4pos8]

I taught my kids, including daughter, to shoot when they were, well, really small. A 10/22 off of a sandbag isn't all that hard. I'd like to know which cartridge this jungjaeger used!??!!?

Waidmannsheil !!

 

[OAKVILLE SHOOTER]

I just finished reading about this on AOL's welcome page under sports. I don't know how many pages of comments they have, but seven pages of twenty comments each was about all I could stand. Most comments were anti-hunting and anti-gun. Some thought that hunting is o.k., but letting a five year old hunt with a rifle was totally irresponsible. There were some that posted that teaching children gun safety and how to hunt is a good thing, but seemed to be in the minority.

 

[Sistema1927]

Five? What's wrong with the kid? Is he developmentally disabled?

 

[RLsnow]

lucky bastard he is

 

[Shooter973]

5 year old kills Bear.....

Where does a 5 year old get a Bear License???

 

[BridgeWalker]

Where does a 5 year old get a Bear License???

The DNR? Or the Tennessee equivelent...

The 13 year old daughter of a member of my range got a bear this year. Don't think the licenses are generally age-restricted.

 

[ReadyontheRight]

That is just plain old awesome. Good for him and his family.

 

[ReadyontheRight]

I just finished reading about this on AOL's welcome page under sports. I don't know how many pages of comments they have, but seven pages of twenty comments each was about all I could stand. Most comments were anti-hunting and anti-gun.

Posted, no doubt, by people who will never have songs written about them.

"...wrote nasty blogs...when he was twenty-three..." is not even in the same universe as "...killed him a bear...when he was only three..."

Why do these busybodies have this need to tell us all how to raise our kids, what legal activities are politically correct, what cars we can drive, what food we can eat, what kind of guns we can own, etc.?

I suspect they have rather empty lives.