Articles labeled: shot bear

They start ‘em mighty young down there — learning how to shoot a gun.. For this Arkansas Kindergartener, his gun toting skills just may have saved his life.

And, what makes this story even more awesome? — This boy is a descendant of Davy Crockett. Yep, for all ya old folks out there, sing it with me, “Davy! Daaaaavy Crockett! King of the Wild Frontier!”

Dewitt - Yesterday in Arkansas County, and Arkansan killed a black bear weighing more than 400 pounds. And what really makes the story amazing is that the hunter was just a boy – a kindergarten boy.

(Tre Merritt, Five-year-old Hunter) “I was up in the stand and I seen the bear. It came from the thicket and it was beside the road and I shot it.”

Tre’s grandfather was in the stand with him at the time. He says Tre did it all by himself.