Mascot shot bear with musket [PHOTO/VIDEO], Mascot shot bear with musket, The West Virginia Mountaineers mascot shot
a bear with a musket, in a classic example of taking your job way too
seriously.
On the field, West Virginia's Mountaineer mascot looks
like a real mountaineer in head-to-foot buckskin, topped by a coonskin
cap. Off the field, he can shoot like one, too,
WVU had asked
method actor Jonathan Kimble, who is the Mountaineers mascot on game
days, to stop using his musket on non-school sanctioned events. The
Mountaineer killed a bear while on a hunting trip. Go here for more including photo and video.
