“I was up in the stand and I seen the bear,” said Tre. “It came from the thicket and it was beside the road and I shot it.”
“He came in about 40 to 50 yards, and when he got in the open,” added Mike. “I whistled at him and he stopped and I said, ‘Shoot Tre.’ I said, ‘Tre, you missed the bear.’ He said, ‘Paw-paw I squeezed the trigger and I didn’t close my eyes. I killed him.”
The Merrittt family plans to get a life sized mount of the bear.
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