New Mexico man kills black bear that broke into his trailer home

A man in New Mexico used a rifle he kept at the end of his bed to kill a black bear after he nearly slept through the predator’s break-in.

Calvin Stoddard, 64, was sound asleep in his home near Hermit’s Peak, roughly 80 miles outside of Santa Fe, when a hulking black bear busted through his trailer’s screen door.

Stoddard, though, didn’t stir until he heard the bear rummaging through his home.

When he woke up, the bear had torn through parts of his narrow trailer and broken the window.

And when his vision cleared, he realized the beast was a mere three feet away from his face, Stoddard told KRQE.

“It’s the first time. I’ve been here for a few years, but they’re coming out of the mountains this year,” Stoddard told New Mexico Game and Fish authorities.

The hunter, though, was more than prepared to take on the ursine and lunged to grab the rifle stashed at end of his bed.

Stoddard pulled the trigger “without hesitation” and executed the bear, he said.

“Bear came in, I f–king killed him,” Stoddard said.

While some bears can be cute and cuddly, they are still extremely deadly predators that can tear people in their way to shreds.

In May, Florida saw its first-ever deadly bear attack after a 300-pound ursine slaughtered an elderly man and his dog.

In October, one hunter in New Jersey took out a staggering 770-pound black bear that he had been trying to pin down for months, setting a new state record.

Many bears are great at sneaking into places where they don’t belong, including cars and Stoddard’s trailer, but awful at escaping. Oftentimes, they wind up ruining entire interiors before frantically busting their way back out.