I don’t have to outrun the bear...
A) With enough of a head start, I can.
B) With that girl posing near the bear, I don’t have to.
That's why I carry bear spray ... S&W 629.
Maybe Bears would be a good curfew enforcer in places where yoots want to riot and cause mayhem...
She can out run me, but can she stop a .50 SW?
If there were ‘you n me and the griz’, all I would have
to do is outrun YOU!
“.. 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. :)
Why do people take cell phone videos without turning the phone sideways?
I don’t think anyone has suggested they can out run a grizzly bear. Have they?
I do have some observations on black bears since I live among them and see their behavior regularly.
I MAY be able to outrun one of the 500lb+ ones that lumber around. I mean only for a very short distance...like 30-40 feet because these fat bastards never run more than that and when they do, it’s only at a fast waddle, 10mph tops.
The young svelte ones are a whole different ball game. I’ve seen them cross my yard at full sprint and it’s scary. Not sure it was as fast at the one in that video, but it’s similar.
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......
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.
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
The Russian version of “So You Think You’re Smarter Than A Fifth Grader” must’ve lost something in translation.