Go ahead...hehehe...make my day
Everything is relative.
Might have been a different story if they had had a gun.
I won't go around in bear country without something whose caliber doesn't start with a number of ".4" or greater.
So, what do you think? Should people be allowed to carry weapons in national parks? Would a pistol have been enough to at least scare a grizzly away?
I read this in the local rag on Friday, an amazing story! This guy is lucky to be alive!
OMG .. and he survived this??
WOW!
Larger than that, I have available .40 S&W, .44 Spl, .44 mag or .45 ACP but the .357 seems to be the best combination of portability and punch. Any informed opinions as to adequacy of the .357 would be appreciated
We just had a brown bear mauling in our village last week. Husband and wife picking berries. Bear got the wife. Husband got three shots in him before bear left with a 300. Wife was minus a buttox and half her scalp and broken jaw and collar bone. She too feels lucky. Husband carried her bleeding body to get medivaced to hospital where they promptly pumped her full of morphine.
The victim MUST have MINMUM success! The attacking animal MUST have MAXIMUM success!!! The police chiefs of America sez so!(Makes sense don't it?)
Ping
Cute bear
As long as they keep building hiking trails in the wilderness, this will happen on occasion.
They're lucky to be alive - just wasn't their time.
And we don't hunt these things why? Kill them push them back into the far wilderness.
You can tell brown bear scat from grisly scat because grisly scat has bells and pepper spray in it.
These constant stories of bear attacks on people is proof of the Disneyfication of the drone populace inhabiting America.
Too many Americans actually believe real life wild animals are harmless like The Bear Jamboree, Dumbo the elephant, Mickey mouse, etc.
Why not just kill all the grizzlies? What do they contribute to the world? And to hell with the wacko environmentalists.
I hiked the Cut Bank creek trail on the east side of the park back in 75....one of half dozen trips there
as we were going in, an old ranger with a mule team was going in to track and kill an old male grizzly that had killed one or two girls backpackers a few days before
bet today's park rangers have little track and kill experience
anyhow....we had a 9MM SW M69....the ranger laughed at us and told us we'd only make him made....he was right of course...he was loaded with 44mag and 45-70....the right tools
nowadays i don't think you can even carry in a NP.
the good old days
"They should all be destroyed!"
The only good bear is a dead bear.
I just saw the movie Grizzly Man...I highly recommend it
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Funny how the crap you go through the more "lucky" people tell you are.