Posted on 03/11/2012 11:06:28 AM PDT by Askwhy5times
How do you tell if you’re in black bear country? The bear scat will have berries in it.
How do you tell if you’re in grizzly country? The bear scat will have little bells in it and smell like pepper spray.
By the way, the report (bang) of any loud firearm will very likely scare a bear away, even if a bear is wounded (most cases). The information in my last comment was more for the purpose of humane defense (avoiding leaving bears wounded and suffering).
In my case...? There’s a bear that regularly walks by near me to get a drink from a creek. No problems from that bear at all (all black, smaller bear). He’s just another neighbor. It helps that the area is not treed.
There were problems at another location, far from here and several years ago, where neighbors left food in their trash. ...a couple of large males (both unusually large, brown and long-haired) that became too familiar with people there. That area was also heavily treed.
One last thing. In at least some states, local wildlife employees will lean toward prosecuting you for shooting a bear except in cases of local livestock owners doing so because of predation. So they lean way against new residential arrivals, and especially, tourists.
How do they define a bear attack? If I shoot the bear before it actually injures anyone, how is that categorized? Is it thrown out because no one was killed or injured? If the bear doesn’t press the attack and turns tail, how is that categorized? This is a study where you can completely bias the outcome simply by how you define a bear attack.
That is the real world!
Tell you what, let’s take these “scientists”, force them into a bear pit, and give them the option to either take a gun with them, or not.....let’s see how many of them take the gun.
“Very few people carry firearms that will put down a bear or develop the skills and anatomy study needed”
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This is the entire point of the study.
He drew a Ruger .454 Casull revolver. There was no time to aim, barely time to squeeze the trigger. He’s not sure whether he got off two shots or three, but one proved fatal.
“Total luck shot,” he said.
“It doesn’t get any closer. He slid by me on his chin when I shot him,” Brush said. “I was backpedaling as fast as I could. I wasn’t even aiming. I tripped over my own feet as I pulled the trigger.”
He estimated that the animal weighed 900-plus pounds, and was 15 to 20 years old. It had grass packed in its molars and little fat on its bones.
“It was starving to death and saw an opportunity,” Brush said.
I also read this article about two unarmed people killed in yellowstone by different bears within a month or so of each other.
In Alaska, people expect problems from bears and are normally armed. In Yellowstone, people are not allowed to be armed. In National Parks, you can be eaten alive for the crime of Political correctness. In Alaska, you eat bear. That is my study on the issue.
Guess which one I chose?
That's just silly. A bear wouldn't carry a 38!
Research is not generally performed for knowledge anymore. Research is done to satisfy grant funding. As such, a researcher who wants to continue to get funding will report what will result in further funding down the road.
The big exception is research which is done to find information that will result in a profitable product.
“I dispute that Smith is a bear expert. Timothy Treadwell was a bear expert. He lived with bears. They ate him.”
Treadwell was a bear expert. He has studied them from inside and out.
Carrying a firearm may not make me safer, but it also doesn’t make the bear safer, either.
The 44 would be fine if there were no bear but if a bear is going to do the dirty work, slow is fine.
Hmmm, you make a good point!
Um, Grizzly Bear, Polar Bear, Brown Bear, Black Bear meets .50 cal. .458, 30.06, .45ACP., bear loses, human remains alive. What am I missing?
Thanks Askwhy5times. Partisan Media Shills ping.
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