At least it wasn't a firearm.
That has to be fun for a bear. They say if a leaf falls in the forest, the deer hears it, the eagle sees it, and the bear smalls it.
That has to be fun for a bear. They say if a leaf falls in the forest, the deer hears it, the eagle sees it, and the bear smells it.
It’s a gateway drug. You start with a little bear spray, and pretty soon you’re moving on to the hard stuff ...
Around 1980 I worked for civil service and we had dog repellent spray. It was only one tenth of one percent pepper but the only time I used it on a dog it worked perfectly.
Once while driving I accidentally sprayed a tiny amount on my windshield.
I took out my handkerchief and wiped it off.
Several minutes later I had to blow my nose and did so into the handkerchief. About a minute later I noticed my nose was swelling shut and my eyes burned.
If that tiny amount did that, I think the modern 10 percent must be amazing. Never been sprayed tho.
Some people shouldn’t be allowed out and about by themselves. The author seems to be one of them.
Bear Spray?
Buahahahahhahahahaha!
An angry grizzly would inhale the spray like perfume, eat the can with your hand on it and rip off your arm.
The second swipe would gut you from stem to stern post.
You want to hike in grizzly country?
Do not be an idiot.
Learn to handle a large caliber firearm, either a rifle or a hand gun.
If you choose to carry a hand gun make sure its nothing less than .44 magnum, and learn to hit a 24 inch square at 100 yards consistently. Most people I know carry a Ruger .44 magnum Super Blackhawk, simple,safe and easy to operate.Carry it in an over the shoulder leather holster looped diagonally to your belt front and rear. Make sure its unobstructed so you can draw it in under 5 seconds.
Carry an axe.
And if you do not think we know what we are talking about talk to Freeper Kanawa:
“Man (Freeper kanawa) stabs bear to death”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670661/posts
( Nice to see you Tom! You living in N.B.?)
Ya, the reason you didn't see a grizzly is because the poor chap was beyond the tree line, doubled over in laughter.
The Bears are waking up shorty up here. They will be all crusing around the place here soon. .44 mag. minimum when outside, plus speed loaders.....ALWAYS. Especially now as they are hungry beyond belief after their ‘winter snooze’. My old butt has gotta look easier to Boo-Boo to munch then going all the way down to the river/lake for the fishies!
I usually buy several cans of bear spray and give them as gifts to my bear friends at Christmas.
Bears have bad BO (Bear Odor).
My bear spray says Smith and Wesson on the side of the 8 3/8 inch barrel.
"Nevertheless, today’s Washington Post reports that bear-spray manufacturers are getting a lot of heat. It turns out that their products tend to do what I’d like to them to do rather than what the bear-o-phobes would like. You see bear spray attracts Mr. Bear, the way an intern smeared and tied to a stake attracts Mr. Clinton (I guess Mr. Bear would dig that too, but for different reasons). One brand is basically a re-labeled pepper spray for 98-pound inner-city crackheads (them I know plenty about). But apparently pepper spray on bears in excess of 400 pounds tends to have a different effect than what you’d expect in a repellent, something like, 'Hey! Mexican food!'"
--Jonah Goldberg
I worked as a Trail Ape for the US Forest Service clearing trail in Montana.
They gave me a safety briefing on my first day. Part of that training dealt with bear attacks.
I believe the guidance was that if a bear attacked you should lie face down and clasp your hands on the back of your neck. You should never run as the bear will catch you.
No bear problems for the first month. Saw lots of bear scat, but never saw a bear.
We had come across a huge Huckleberry bush one day, so I was carrying a brush saw the next day to clear out the Huckleberry bush.
My partner was pretty far behind me using a Pulaski .
I got to the Huckleberry bush and put on my cutting chaps. I pulled the starter cord on the brush saw.
A bear exploded out of the Huckleberry bush.
I ran screaming down the trail. I did exactly what you were not supposed to do.
I got away, but that’s just because the bear was laughing so hard that he couldn’t catch me.
I don’t have any great advice for dealing with bears. Some of my coworkers told me I should have held the brush saw in front of me and revved the motor.
Here’s what my thoughts were when the bear charged out of the bush:
“Oh shirt! Oh shirt! Oh shirt! Run! Run! Run! Big bear! Big bear! Big bear!”
I didn’t have a pistol. If I would have had a pistol, it probably would have been moving on down the trail with me as I ran screaming.
Fool can’t even carry a can of bear meal seasoning.
Pathetic.
Bears love pepper spray. Adds spice to their meal.... you!
I’d only go into bear country armed.
That said, I’d prefer a Karelian Bear Dog as my first line of defense.
Just a side note about bears. I wrestled Victor Rasputin at the Sportsman's Show some 35 years ago. Victor was a 750 lb. brown bear. I'm a big guy (around 300 lbs.) and Victor hit me with a forearm across my chest. His forearm was well padded so it was like getting with a gust of wind, not a 2x4. Victor's swat lifted me off my feet and sent me flying across the ring. The match ended in a draw btw.
.454 Casul spray is the best.