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So you think you can outrun a grizzly bear?
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Posted on 06/06/2015 4:36:33 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

So you think you can outrun a grizzly bear?

Female adult grizzly bear (known as bear 610) sprints across the Willow Flats of Grand Teton National Park to reunite with her cubs. How fast does she run?

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To: Rodamala

OMG. It’s not Stephen Spielberg. They were probably lucky to get the shot at all.


21 posted on 06/06/2015 5:23:42 AM PDT by paul544
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
if it gets pepper spray in the face it freaks out and runs away.

In your dreams.

22 posted on 06/06/2015 5:28:09 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

“I don’t have to outrun the bear...”

nope, just the other guy.


23 posted on 06/06/2015 5:30:01 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: BuffaloJack

“Why do people take cell phone videos without turning the phone sideways?”

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Heat of the moment excitement. Don’t do it often. Not a natural action since the phone is usually used vertically. All kinds of reasons. It is annoying, though.


24 posted on 06/06/2015 5:32:00 AM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: Lion Den Dan
The really stupid part of pepper spray is that you have to be so close to the bear to see if it works.

When and if I decide to walk in bear country, I'm carrying a 7.62mm M1A with a 20-round magazine filled with AP.

25 posted on 06/06/2015 5:35:00 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Rodamala

Exactly why I carry high velocity heavy lead spray!


26 posted on 06/06/2015 5:36:36 AM PDT by Comment Not Approved (When bureaucrats outlaw hunting, outlaws will hunt bureaucrats.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Alaska guides usually protect their clients with a .338 Win Mag, .300 Win Mag or such. I believe Alaska mandates minimum rounds for guides to protect their clients.

The EPA regulates pepper spray, and the best stuff is not approved for use on bears. You can’t make this stuff up!


27 posted on 06/06/2015 5:46:06 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

When I first moved to Alaska, I carried a .44 Magnum for protection in the wild. Then, I saw something like this. I realized there’s no way I could hit a charging grizzly, so I bought a short barrel 12 gauge and alternated slugs and buck shot. Many people now carry flare guns......


28 posted on 06/06/2015 5:51:14 AM PDT by ALASKA (Disgusted.....)
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To: ALASKA

I would load slugs, then the last round buckshot. That way the first shot is buckshot, in the excitement you have a better chance of scoring a hit. Then after that, it’s aimed slugs to finish the job.

Now I carry a marlin stainless 45/70.


29 posted on 06/06/2015 6:00:49 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

During college, I worked on a Trail Crew for the US Forest Service. We had come across a huge growth of huckleberries. We brought up a brush saw to clear the trail. I was in the lead with the saw. My partner was back down the trail a ways. I put the saw down and put on my chaps and pulled the starting cord on the saw. A bear exploded out of the huckleberries.

I’ve had people tell me that they would have stood there and faced the bear with the saw. Others told me they would have played dead. A few have told me they would have climbed a tree. One even said he’d have thrown the bear a sandwich.

I forgot all my bear safety training and ran back down the trail as fast as I could.

I don’t think I outran the bear. As a matter-of-fact, I don’t really have any advice as to what you should do if you come nose-to-nose with a bear in a huckleberry patch. The best thing is to probably not be so caught up in your thoughts that you don’t know there’s a bear in that huckleberry patch.

Personally, I think the bear was grinning at me like that Cheshire Cat as I was running away. Don’t expect to find any good-natured Bears like that these days, though. They hate hippies.


30 posted on 06/06/2015 6:55:25 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

Your story reminds me of a family friend who lives in the mountains of Virginia. Shorty had a few apple orchards. One day, he was checking on the apple development and BAM.. out of a tree fell a black bear RIGHT in front of Shorty. Shorty screamed; the bear screamed. Shorty ran one way.. the bear ran the other way. Both kept glancing back to see if the other “guy” was chasing. When he told me that story... I laughed. I could just picture it!


31 posted on 06/06/2015 7:07:26 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: BuffaloJack

“Why do people take cell phone videos without turning the phone sideways?”

Most likely they don’t realize that they can rotate it 90 degrees.


32 posted on 06/06/2015 7:27:17 AM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'about' page))
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

No but you only have to be faster than the person that you’re hiking with.


33 posted on 06/06/2015 8:12:40 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

awwwww and I thought I was going to get to see this cute democrat get et by a grizzly bar


34 posted on 06/06/2015 8:14:35 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Comment Not Approved

I am told that when going into brown bear country, be sure to have in your hand something with a calibre that starts with a number 4. In the other hand? You want to carry something that has a calibre starting with the number 4 as well.


35 posted on 06/06/2015 8:18:50 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: blueunicorn6

Wow that was lucky! For some reason he didn’t chase you, you might have startled him as well.


36 posted on 06/06/2015 8:32:44 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 17 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: momtothree

“.. can’t say I can run faster than that..”

Me either. If I lived in an area with bears, I’d only walk around with a really, big fat person with a bad knee. Then I could walk away. :)
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And it would be an added bonus if the fat person was a ‘Rat with a pompous attitude. :^)


37 posted on 06/06/2015 8:47:29 AM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda; kanawa

I believe that freeper policy is to kill the bear with our Buck knives.

I don’t know if that is official policy set by JR, or if freeper kanawa just created it on the fly.

“Man (Freeper kanawa) stabs bear to death”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1670661/posts


38 posted on 06/06/2015 9:01:12 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Famous last words...

"Oh, I love bears. Take a picture quick!!!! This is THEIR environment ya know! If people come out in their environment and something bad happens, it is our f.....HELP!!!!!!"
39 posted on 06/06/2015 10:53:01 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: ansel12

I thought Freepers “grinned them to death” like Davey Crockett?


40 posted on 06/06/2015 10:53:59 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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