Buckshot exploded from the muzzle of an old shotgun in a blazing inferno that launched it toward a charging bear. He was a brute, massive among even the biggest bears that roamed the timbers of the ...

17, when Santiny watched a 696-pound black bear saunter out of the Tensas ... he looked like a Volkswagen Beetle coming out of the woods he was so big,’’ said Santiny, a Purple Heart recipient ...