Virginia man dies after bear shot in tree falls on him

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5. Black bear hunting is pretty widespread in the US & Canada.

I don't get it, because bear meat is supposed to be pretty nasty - its a predator. Hunters mainly make sausage out of it.

At least they're eating what they kill. Timber companies hire professional hunters to kill bears in the spring - after they come out of hibernation, they strip bark off trees to get at the sap because they're starving. Out on the Olympic Peninsula a decade back, one of the hunters got their arm ripped off by the bear they shot.