Posted on 07/25/2011 4:55:29 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus
A couple of .44 magnums could have turned the tide.
The bear continued “mailing” him..........
I guess a lesson was learned! Sad that two young men are in critical condition.
Is it wrong to find some sic humor in that statement?
Doesn't sound like their "survival" training did them much good..... (((ping)))
I bet Palin would have been packin’.
A .45 do any good? Going to the Tetons. Wondering if a .45 is enough.
"You've got maul..."
Yes, that sentence elicited an involuntary laugh from me. As though a bear deterrent spray would do anything against an angry grizz!
people never learn....
bears are wild animals....they are unpredictable...they will defend themselves and their cubs from everyone including larger male bears...
Standard frickin' excuse as if it is ok to be killed by a bear if there is a cub around. No one saw a frickin cub but that doesn't matter the "authorities" will use this excuse as often as they can get away with it, as if Grizzlies have never attacked unprovoked before.
Not one of the kids molested a cub but the Grizzly attacked anyway. Grizzlies are known to attack for no reason at all, cubs or no, simply because they feel like it.
Soon, there will be FReepers commenting that the kids deserved it because they were in the bear's territory, as if humans have no right to the woods.
The bear pepper spray works pretty well, but it has to be kept handy.
A handgun is a poor choice in a sudden attack. Even a .44 Mag requires several well-placed shots to put down a Grizzly.
A shotgun with 00 still probably won’t get it done, either. You need some slugs in there. Bears have very thick skin.
If the bear is far enough away (and they run fast), a rifle is the best choice.
Ping
Not a bird ping
.45 is the absolute bare (no pun intended) minimum, but not a good choice unless you are an expert shot while crapping your pants because an 800 lb. Grizzly is running at you.
Get some bear spray and some 30.06
LoL! Thanks, I'm not the only one then.
As though a bear deterrent spray would do anything against an angry grizz!
Oh, it would do something...piss it off....
Kids definitely didn’t deserve it, but they should have prepared for it.
They were in Grizzly territory.
How many learned this lesson, I wonder?
"Don't go into grizzly country without a grizzly gun."
not for me, it wouldn’t be
“I was looking for an adventure,” said Samuel Gottsegen, the Denver teenager who survived a grizzly bear attack in the Alaska this weekend. His adventure came with bite marks in his head and a pierced lung.
Gottsegen, 17, took part in the National Outdoor Leadership School student expedition with 13 other students and three instructors. On the last leg of the trip, seven students remained in what NOLS spokesperson Bruce Palmer describes as a “self-sufficiency field base experience.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/grizzly-bear-attack-survivor-describes-alaskan-ordeal/t/story?id=14152757
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