Posted on 08/23/2009 11:27:15 AM PDT by mylife
Wowzers!!!
Just got back from baiting pigs and changing camera batteries and caught the last couple of minutes...
I’d be willing to bet that Mr. Brush had to change his shorts! Or at least he didn’t stop shaking for a few hours...
I will be carrying more than bear spray next year in Wyo.!
I have no reason to doubt him. He could shoot bears wantonly all day long on the kenai penninsula if that’s what he really wanted to do.
He was still rattled in the interview with Tom 3 weeks later!
W00ps that was last weeks podcast. The new one isnt up yet
Where ya going in Wyoming?
He was surprised by a bear charging at 60 feet.
He pulled his 454 and got off five rounds. In real life the bear would have had his leg in his mouth by the time he cleared leather. Never mind the ability to handle the recoil of a 454 and get it back on target.
People up there from natives to military choose differnt forms of bear defense but once your personally aware of or witness a big browns power an speed.
You go big.....some carried a large caliber rifle. I had a 375 H&H that I bought off troop I replaced for that reason alone.
12 gauge turned out to be the best of all. Lightweight an good stopping gun.
This is real life, and Mr Brush lived to tell the tale
That why he probably shot it out of his truck window.
It could be also that the man unwittingly scared away some prey the bear was stalking, in which case the man looked like another hunter for that prey.
We are too quick to think that bear wanted the man for a meal.
He says he never heard the report or felt the recoil.
He was backpeddling and firing..
I believe it. The adrenalin had to be full on
He fell on his ass as the bear skidded past..popped up and put in another round
Damned rednecks with trucks /s
Where I usually go, Bridger-Tetons/Hoback River. I have family there... My BIL and I are Wapiti Freaks/Elkaholics!
And, arrowing a grouse for the grill is fun too!
Would normally be leaving in a couple of weeks, but the knee surgery took its toll financially and physically and to a lesser extent mentally..
I am ready for Texas whitetail ( and oinkers ) this fall...Will be hunting hard!
When I lived in Alaska I always carried a Ruger .22LR pistol for bear protection.
If I saw a dangerous bear I would simply shoot whoever I was hiking with in the leg and run like heck.
Worked every time...
Arrowing a grouse? L0L really? Like a weeny on a stick over the fire?
Wish we had Wapiti for the grill now.
Checkout Glacier National monument in Montana
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