Posted on 12/03/2007 3:09:30 PM PST by george76
Long ago, grizzly bears thrived in Montana as did tales - some tall, some true - told by frontiersmen of a man-eater even more fearsome than the other two bogeymen of the forest, wolves and mountain lions.
Today, the reputation of Ursus arctos horribilis - along with other major predators ...
Also changed is how people can handle encounters with grizzlies, using a chemical spray rather than guns to improve the odds that both humans and bears will escape the encounters unharmed.
But Workman believes that if a bullet was good enough for his great-grandfather more than a century ago, then it's good enough for him when confronted by a charging grizzly, especially since he's wielding a modern, high-powered rifle.
It's an opinion held by many hunters, but Workman also is a member of Montana's Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission, the citizen board that oversees the state Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks.
And that agency, along with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, devotes considerable resources each year on bear awareness programs that emphasize chemical spray, not bullets, as the way to keep both people and bears safe in the woods.
Last week, Workman drew widespread criticism from bear biologists, wildlife officials and some hunters when he shot a charging grizzly - and later said bullets are far more effective than bear spray in fending off such an attack.
“These people who think that they're safe with bear spray, I'm here to tell them it's a false sense of security,” he said.
“The spray is better than nothing, but I'll choose a firearm every time.”
Workman...also drew fire for saying grizzlies have become so populous in Montana that they should be taken off the endangered species list and hunted to make them afraid of people.
(Excerpt) Read more at missoulian.com ...
You forgot the un-opened bag of granola.
*LOL*..yeah now stomped to crumbs
I can’t imagine stopping that much mass on full tilt boogie with any special magic mist.
I heard the panic and dissapointment.
That guy had steel nerve.
Definitely clean underwear.
see..I missed using words cuz I'm laffin so hard...since the shower scene
I missed adding the envelope of Hillary bumperstickers to the pile.
How about a ruger alaskan 454 wheelgun to go with that rifle?
The .45-70 IS the .45 Govt, or .45-70 Govt. It is an 1873 cartridge that consists of a 500 grain flat based soft lead slug over 70 grains of compressed black powder. It launches the 500 grain slug at about 1700 fps, and was designed for, and will shoot through a horse at 600 yards from an original gun. Modern rifles with smokeless powder have slightly higher velocities but with lighter copper jacketed bullets still approximate the same energies as the original Black Powder loads.
If you do your homework you will find that there have been more Grizzlys killed with a .30-06, than with all other calibers combined.
I’ll take the rifle, thanks.
How about a bullet filled with pepper spray?
Or a gun that squirts pepper spray and shoots a bullet at the same time?
Often not with big bears. They do so much damage trying to move you around you may as well be dead.
Now that is a 9.9 on the pucker scale!!!
Love that joke.
How do you tell if it’s Grizzly poop?
If it’s got a spray bottle and bells in it!
The success in either spray or gun is determined by your application speed vs. the bears closing speed.
The gun is effective for a longer moment.
More of aobut everything killed with 30-06.
“How about a bullet filled with pepper spray.”
You should stop by my place and check the trash can. I was saving mine as a gift for a certain someone who turned out to be a rat not a bear. So, I don’t need it anymore.
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Any takers?
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