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.
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.
Ping
Not a bird ping
How many learned this lesson, I wonder?
"Don't go into grizzly country without a grizzly gun."
“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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Apparently these teens did NOT watch Sarah Palin’s Alaska otherwise they would have learned something about Grizzly bears
“Then the bear left, only to return a moment later to continue mailing him...”
To where, the hospital?
Well, I can understand a camp/survival school isn't going to send a bunch of teens into the backcountry armed. Though I might question sending them into grizzly country. I must have missed the part about the grizz attacking through a cloud of bear spray, which is frequently effective in situations like this. If they can handle 30 days in the backcountry, they can handle spray. Presuming it's legal for minors to carry. My opinion only.
I guess she went looking for a stamp...
With a grizzly? If you want to tickle him... In the Alaska backwoods you carry a 45-70 lever or a 12GA with slugs; if it HAS to be a pistol nothing less than a 460 or S&W 500. Twelve Hundred Pounds of muscle and death and anger doesn't go down lightly...
Final Exam.
Prayers up for the youngsters, they got more than they bargained for.
I would have called Dick Cheney to take care of the bear.
It seems that I recently read an article about bear attacks that said you should NEVER play dead. Always fight back.
I think I'd fight anyway possible.
Minimum, several of them should have been armed and trained with 30-06 with heavy, premium bullets. I say minimum. 338 Win Mag is better, but that kind of monster recoil is a lot to expect from a bunch of kids.