See for yourself.
Posted on 09/11/2005 4:46:29 PM PDT by Archidamus
Let me guess, to shoot yourself when the bear starts attacking? :-P
Why take condiments? May as well bring along some A-1 steak sauce.
No you shoot the person next to you in the knee and run. A .22 cal derringer is easy to hide from the game warden.
" something that blows enough limbs off the bear (rocket or contact grenade or something) that it physically cannot pursue you."
Now that's a grisly scene....shades of The Holy Grail: "But I cut off your arms!" "No you didn't! No you didn't."
And we don't hunt these things why? Kill them push them back into the far wilderness.
See for yourself.
Heh, I figured that that was the other possible answer.
So I take it, that shoots .45 cal long colt also?
The .454 chambering does. This piece is also available in .480 Ruger.
No guns "allowed", so I NEVER visit "National Park's"!
I have found that there is plenty of uncrowded land to play on where I DO go armed, when no one points the nice places out by making "Parks" out of them they are usually not so overused.
Bears are the least of the problem outside AK, thugs, druggies and rapist are all very fond of the "NO GUNS" NP law!
Remember the three women killed at Yosemite a couple of years ago?
No guns for them, just rape and death.
Boycott any place that does not allow you to go armed, every time you can.
300 mag rifle.
No joke. Check out reply #25. I agree with everything ImpeachandRemove says with the possible exception of the .357 caliber. I own a .357 Mag and I would never trust it on a bear above a can of the pepper spray.
Pepper Spray?
Uh, OK, I guess if you are going to be eaten you may as well be spicy!
Because of environmentalists who think we have no rightto go hiking in national parks that we paid for.
" Should people be allowed to carry weapons in national parks"
So, you gotta go through a metal detector before going hiking in national parks in your neck of the woods or something?
Not really. Any handgun is chancy against a bear, even the very largest caliber handguns.
After seeing what a bear can do to a person, I'll take a .45 (whatever you carry, you have to be able to HIT and SCORE on the bear for it to be worthwhile, and that means a semiauto for me) at a minimum. My preferred weapon for hiking or back country anti-bear armament is a 12ga pump or semi shotgun with magnum slugs.
Absolutely. I will never go to a national park for this reason. I do not go to places where I am disarmed.
The bear always eats the slowest person.
Actually, unless I was hunting the bear, I would carry something like a .44 Mag Carbine. I would never go in an area where I could surprise a bear with a bolt action rifle. You are only going to get one shot. The best thing of all to have with you would be a large dog. While the bear and dog were going at it, you would have more time. Plus the dog would normally smell the bear. That would be your best of all insurance.
If I was bear hunting, I would not use anything less than some type of .34 Mag rifle. I would never go alone and at least one person would always have a automatic rifle such as the .44 Mag I just mentioned.
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