The only good bear is a dead bear.
Bear spray is like bringing a knife to a gunfight. Bears are more valuable than people. If you shoot it, you might hurt it.
Bear spray? I keep an AR-10 handy for bears. Bear spray is for liberal nature weenies who think bears are nice creatures.
Being in Canada took away any option of having a firearm. That stinks.
Previous reports said “hikers” were killed. This is the first time I heard they were attacked in a tent in camp. Cooking and eating food in bear country with hibernation approaching may not be a smart idea.
We were hiking a few miles west of there at Lake Louise a couple weeks ago, but on popular trails with a fair number of other hikers. The day after we departed, a young woman guide was leading a group of 15 hikers to a nearby lake and the group was stalked by a grizz a long ways, but no attack. That was maybe ten days before this fatal attack.
If you hit me with pepper spray, bear strength or not, I’m going to kill you if I have any means whatsoever. It would make me very angry and surging with adrenaline. I doubt that’s a preferred state to put a bear into?
I would never think of using it on a grizzly,
maybe a tame black bear digging in the trash, but then yelling or banging pans would work just as well
Bear spray to a hungry grizzly is nothing more than hot sauce.
Contrary to what the weenie headed conservationist greenies say,the best thing to protect a person is a high powered rifle or a large magnum caliber pistol.
People should be required to carry a suitable firearm when hiking in Grizzly country, and prove they are qualified to handle that firearm.
The above for those who didn’t get it, is from the movie Dancing With Bears”, I mean Wolves.
Why ANYONE would go camping/hiking/running/biking where Grizzly bears live is beyond understanding.
But for those who do, You pays your money and you takes your chances.
Don’t Cry For Me Argentina. Does Argentina have Grizzly bears? (no, spectacled bears)
“There is only a single reported human death due to a spectacled bear, which occurred while it was being hunted and was already shot.”
Okay to camp in Argentina, bear wise anyway.
““Their tent was crushed and their e-readers were open, they were both discovered in their stocking feet,” he said.”
But were their feet still attached?
Bears when in “attack mode,” can keep going for a while even if you place a bullet in the perfect spot.
[Ranger lesson 101 on bears}
1. Always wear bells on your boots, so the bear can hear you coming.
2. Always carry bear spray.
3. You can tell the presence of bears by the scat.
a. Black bear skat has nuts, berries and undigested seeds in it.
b. Grizzly scat is much larger, has little bells in it, and smells like bear spray.
This happened just last week...
Photos showed a Capable couple
But ‘Out Gunned!’
RIP
Actually bear spray does usually work, even on grizzlies. But not always as we can see. Best to carry both spray and a firearm.
I’m curious as to whether these victims had food in their tent. Always hang food up well away from your tent. It’s usually food that attracts the bears.
To bears its apparently like McIlhenney tobasco sauce. 🤔
🙏🇮🇱👍
Luckily in America we have other options. I’m sticking with my Glock 20 loaded with Buffalo Bore 220 gr ammo.
On Tuesday, Parks Canada said the bear likely responsible was a female grizzly more than 25 years old and in “fair body condition,” with poor teeth and less body fat than usual for this time of year.
It wore no collar or tags and wasn’t known to federal officials, said the agency, which is subjecting the animal to a necropsy to confirm it was responsible for the attack.
Sounds like the movie “Back Country”