Posted on 07/22/2006 5:30:03 PM PDT by kanawa
"Mark Steyn once said that conservative women in Ireland are thinner on the ground than Jews in Arafat's cabinet - I want to prove him wrong! (Though, not easy to prove Steyn wrong...)"
Then you may as well get your passport and buy a one-way ticket now...
Even better is a Ruger Super Black Hawk in .44 mag with a 7.5 inch barrel, if thats possible.
I'll have to get a passport - I don't want to be undocumented!
The cinnamon version of the black bear is a color variation, at least those in California. Dad shot a cinnamon black bear and I was quite surprised when I saw the rug made out of it. Looked like a bad bleach blond job. He had it mounted with the head on and the mouth open and made into a rug. It lay in my brother's bedroom until one night when Mom tripped and got her foot in the mouth. Now it is on the wall of the hunting quarters. I thought it was rather bristly, not soft at all.
His wife drove up to the camp with their baby and toddler in the minivan to visit him one weekend.
She took the kids out of the van first and went back for their stuff and a black bear had pulled himself up and through the drivers window and was eating the supplies in the van.
My buddy went and got his shotgun and dispatched the bear when it finally got out of the van (which suffered a few thousand of dollars in damage).
He caught some flak for shooting that bear too.
I thought they were very lucky his wife had taken both the babies out of the van first thing.
For my son, his wilderness experience was a right of passage, now he knows he can live and survive just about anywhere in the world because of it.He doesn't dissolve into depression when there is a lack of modern ammenities, he actually cheers up! When he was 12 years old he would swing a day pack on his back, take his then 5 year old Irish Setter male, and would disappear into the woods for a whole day alone, coming back a dusk with a bag full of trout or possibly a rack of grouse and a rabbit or two when he took his shot gun out in the fall. After the age of 8 0r 9 he wanted to go alone rather than tag along with the old duffer.
I commend you for giving such a gift to your family, for it is more precious than gold.
I think it's fair to say, kanawa, that with this posting you have established credentials that put you outside the norm of the average suburbanite!
Thank you for your concern about my dog. Hope you and yours are doing well.
Right you are if you are up for the carry. I have not taken one into the wilderness myself although I do have several, one is a hand forged Scottish basket hilt, as carried by my Scottish ancesters in the wilderness. An inexpensive full tang samurai knock off would make a good choice I think. A company called "BudK" carrys them.
Let us know about your trip when you get back, interesting things always happen.
Unless they are long in the tooth and trained to associate humans with food through people feeding them, then you have a killing machine. Tell it to the Missasauga Surgeon who had to stand by and watch a black bear kill his wife.
BUMP :)
In the southern part of Texas
In the town of San Antone
There's a fortress all in ruins that the weeds have overgrown
You may look in vain for crosses and you'll never see a one
But sometimes between the setting and the rising of the sun
You can hear a ghostly bugle
As the men go marching by
You can hear them as they answer
To that roll call in the sky.
Colonel Travis, Davy Crockett, and a hundred eighty more
Captain Dickinson, Jim Bowie
Present and accounted for.
....
Now the bugles are silent
And there's rust on each sword
And the small band of soldiers...
Lie asleep in the arms of the Lord...
In the southern part of Texas
Near the town of San Antone
Like a statue on his pinto rides a cowboy all alone
And he sees the cattle grazing where a century before
Santa Anna's guns were blazing and the cannons used to roar
And his eyes turn sorta misty
And his heart begins to glow
And he takes his hat off slowly...
To the men of Alamo.
To the thirteen days of glory
At the siege of Alamo...
Very glad that you're both ok. But now that it's over -
You should have sat down with the bear and discussed with him why he was being so aggressive. Quite possibly, the bear simply needed to get in touch with his feelings and express anger over a previous encounter with human beings that left him upset. :)
Then again, it's possible that the noise you were making wasn't quite enough to let the bear know that you were a dangerous intruder in his domain. Perhaps you should have shouted out "I'm not a tree-hugging, pinko environmentalist, you stupid bear - I'm here to skin bears and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum!"
Awesome story, kanawa!
Tom Tilley BUMP!
American Staffordshire, Sam B U M P !!
Great story!
Thanks for the ping!
And here I was thinking I was sane.
I'm sure glad that Bear Strangler Kanawa is on our side!
Stainless steel moths?
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