Shooting a bear in your yard

I have bears in my yard one or two times per year.
Typically they run off as soon as I go outside.
However, I now have one that is hanging around and it doesn't run when it sees me. It stomps, huffs, clacks, and has charged at me. When it charged at me I fired a shot in the dirt and it retreated to the back of the yard but did not really go that far or that fast.
I have young kids so I want this bear gone.
I am considering the three S approach (Shoot, Shovel, Shut up) but my property is not secluded enough to guarantee nosey neighbors don't get involved.
I am also considering giving it a little 22 long rifle to the butt to get him motivated to move on.
Any other suggestions? Thanks.
Typically they run off as soon as I go outside.
However, I now have one that is hanging around and it doesn't run when it sees me. It stomps, huffs, clacks, and has charged at me. When it charged at me I fired a shot in the dirt and it retreated to the back of the yard but did not really go that far or that fast.
I have young kids so I want this bear gone.
I am considering the three S approach (Shoot, Shovel, Shut up) but my property is not secluded enough to guarantee nosey neighbors don't get involved.
I am also considering giving it a little 22 long rifle to the butt to get him motivated to move on.
Any other suggestions? Thanks.
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Might also consider doing a bit of investigating in the area to see if there are new sources of food present that are causing more than the occasional passing through of a bear. This may be a neighbor feeding their animals or wildlife or possibly unsecured garbage in the immediate area.
Between the removal of the source of attraction and the application of legal annoyance ( hazing ) it should be fairly easy to run a recurring bear off permanently.
One other thing to consider is what time of year it is. Bears in Florida tend to give birth around the first week of February with the little ones making their initial trips out of the den with mom at about this time. Could well be that if what you are seeing is very recent in nature, and if there are no food source new to the area, that it is a female with cubs close by. Which, again without the draw of food and with some legal annoyance can be remedied with out putting yourself in legal limbo.
I put a speaker next to my garbage cans one night and blasted Ricky Martin , Livin the vita loca when he showed up again.
Haven't seen him for 2 months now..
“Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.”
― Ernest Hemingway
If you do shoot him with a .22, several things are possible:
1. Could cause a nasty wound that could well get badly infected
2. Could get into a joint or nerve bundle and cripple it for life
3. Could Very Well really p*ss him off and bring a deadly, for real charge
4. Could get you into very serious legal trouble with DFG, as well as local police.
Check with DFG and/or law enforcement for rubber bullets for whatever other guns you may own.
Check with DFG and/or sporting goods stores for 12 gauge crackers. They'll shoot a pyrotechnic about 100 ft that then explodes with a very loud bang. Very effective. (fun, too)
My #1 choice - ask DFG to relocate the Bear for you.
The fact that your posting this here and speaking of shooting it means to me your an **********
I think you should post all the information, if you want conclusive advice.
Unfortunately I'm too dense to figure out what your talking about. If you have a tip that would help me (besides getting F'd) don't keep it to yourself.
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Face it, nobody hangs in their yard anymore...they dash from AC car to AC work then AC car to AC house and the TV. Especially yankees and snowflakes.
Watching a bear is better than anything on cables 400 channels of BS...
Consider yourself lucky...a bear...how cool is that?
"little .22 long rifle to the butt" was my tip off. No such thing as a "little .22 long rifle" to anywhere. A .22 will kill you. Most on a sportsman forum know that.
Although if I thought I could get away with it I would just shoot the **** thing.
Yea they get into my garbage but that's on me for leaving a Buffet outside.
Now if one charged me all bets are off..but most everyone I've seen run away real fast.
Respect Not Fear thru Knowledge.
Good luck with that thing - you know society is messed up when an aggressive animal has more rights than people.
I'm not a big one for aggressive animals around kids or myself even. Dangerous bear should = dead bear IMO. The ones I've seen in the ONF have always run.
My neighbor rigged a air hose and a camera on a bowl of cat food - gives raccoons and opossums a blast. Maybe you could rig a line and "blow the bear away" with some pressurized air. Couple of encounters like that and I'd think it would avoid your yard. Just can't bait it in to do that... How to set up an air line where the bear would be naturally?