Home defense , rural area, police response time after midnight: 2 to 3 hours.During the day the response time is 1.5 hours.
1) Pellet gun rifle and led hand held spot light
2) 6 ft Staff
3) Shillelagh
4) Basket hilted sword ( very sharp)
5) Bennelli 12 gauge Nova pump with extended mag
6) .45 cal 1911 Remington handgun
7) .44 magnum Ruger Super Blackhawk
8) AR-15 semii auto rifle .223 cal
For black bears that try to enter the home or the porch deck, the shot gun is the go to defense. If Mr. Bear gets into the home, its the .44 mag.
Bears are the biggest risk, in the early Spring after hibernation and in the fall when wild apples are ripe om our land.
Other critters know how we handle bears...and they stay away. But then we are ready for them too if necessary.
You can’t live here without awareness.
Our security system is the crows who let us know when
there are critters about, they make an awful ruckus.The crows think they own the place because we give them our table scraps.They leave nothing.
Surprise is your friend.
Kristen is nice to look at, but to a bear she is just a skin covered bag of red meat.
Rural safety and security is much different than one would organize in an urban setting, one of the reasons we live here.
> For black bears that try to enter the home or the porch deck, the shot gun is the go to defense. <
Couple of guys I know (separately) went fishing in the Alaska back country. In both cases their guides carried double barrelled shotguns for bear defense. Why not a pump shotgun or a semi-auto?
One of the guides was asked that. “Two shots are all you’re gonna get”, he said. I don’t know if I subscribe to that. Just throwing it out there.
I pay attention to blue jays - the early warning system of the forest.