image of Arey island by Eric Mckittrick 23 August, 2003 link to license cc 2.5
Posted on 05/18/2023 3:36:14 AM PDT by marktwain
Arey Island is a seven-mile-long barrier island in the Southern Beaufort Sea off the coast of the north slope of Alaska. It is a flat, barren island that is mostly privately owned.
During August of 2014 two United States Fish and Wildlife personnel were on duty on the west end of Arey Island, recorded as off the mouth of the Hula Hula and Okpilak Rivers, 8.5 miles WSW of Kaktovik. 70 deg 05’23.67″ N, 144 deg. 00’43.12″W. One of them defended themselves against a polar bear on August 16, at about 9 a.m. The incident was recorded as number 549 in the Freedom of information act (FOIA) response AmmoLand received.
The Fish and Wildlife personnel did not have any dogs with them. Their food was in a bear-resistant container outside of the tent. The Fish and Wildlife pair did not have bear spray with them. In Kaktovik, the temperature was recorded as 39 degrees F, with a 20 mph wind from the East. Earlier, at 5 am, the wind had been 30 mph. For those of you who have not slept in a tent, 20 to 30 mph winds are significant. A tent has to be strong and well anchored to remain in place with a 30 mph wind. If the wind was averaging 20 mph, there were almost certainly gusts to 30 mph. When the wind was averaging 30 mph, there were almost certainly gusts to 45 mph.
One of the Fish and Wildlife personnel was sleeping in a tent. They had a .44 magnum. A fat and healthy boar polar bear arrived on the scene and attempted to enter the tent. The sleeper woke up, detected the polar bear, and shot and
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image of Arey island by Eric Mckittrick 23 August, 2003 link to license cc 2.5
Screw bear spray. Its not reliable. A .44 magnum is very reliable. If you hit something with it, that something is going to stop attacking you.
All polar bear deaths are caused by global warming. But this one is especially convenient because they can also blame gun violence at the same time.
Thank you! For your continued work on this project.
Polar bears are the only predator on Earth that looks at humans and instantly decides there be prey - other than other humans.
What’s a polar bear doing with a .44 magnum? I told you we should repeal the right to arm bears.
I wonder if we need sensible polar bear control laws.
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“Do you feel lucky punk? Well do you?”
Don’t spray bear spray into the wind! Of course you can shoot into the wind.
Maybe if humans would just stay the F out of a place like that a remote island in the arctic where Polar Bears live, then the need to ‘defend yourselves’ could be avoided?
If humans figure out time travel, I’m sure we will travel back to the Cretacous period just so we can ‘defend ourselves’ with an automatic shotgun, and write an article for ammoland about how we were in mortal peril and it was IMPOSSIBLE to avoid the dangerous situation we were in.
“One of the Fish and Wildlife personnel was sleeping in a tent. They had a .44 magnum.”
One person is not “they”.
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No word on whether or not the out house filled to overflowing rendering it unusable.
How do YOU determine where a person can and cannot go. We are the stewards of this planet. Sometimes we have to crop and harvest
.44 magnum...
When it absolutely, positively has to be put down, right now...
There is not apex predator for polar bears, until man appeared
Mess with us, and they die.
That’s why there are not polar bears in lots of populated places.
Take a look at a map, there is huge amounts of territory people don’t live in up north. Better yet, take a tour by plane.
“One person is not “they”.”
1. You don’t know his pronouns! :-)
2. Where was the second guy sleeping? Outside in the wind?
I think bear spray would be considered as “seasoning” by the bear.
May as well just spray it on ones self…
It’s early but your post might be the dumbest post for the day.
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