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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Wow! Kids These Days
I guess you could say "Like great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great-grandfather like great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- grandson." Or something like that.
A 5-year-old Arkansas County boy killed a black bear Sunday weighing more than 400 pounds.
Tre Merritt, a descendant of Davy Crockett, was hunting with his grandfather Mike Merritt when a black bear happened upon their stand.
"His 10th great-grandfather was Davy Crockett," Mike Merritt said. "And Davy supposedly killed him a bear when he was three. And Tre is five and really killed a bear. I really doubt if Davy killed one when he was three."Mike Merritt was in the stand at the time but said Tre did it all by himself.
"He came in about 40 to 50 yards," Mike Merritt said of the black bear, "and when he got in the open, I whistled at him and he stopped and I said, 'Shoot Tre.'"
The only problem is that now he's going to spend the rest of his life trying to top it. How do you top that?
