Posted on 12/23/2022 4:53:07 AM PST by marktwain
Climate change claim scam does yield a consequence.
Poor polar bear.
The only good bear is a dead bear.
I personally like to see bears in the wild. Though I have no compunction against shooting one to death if need be
When I read the headline I just wondered where he got the guns, haha.
It’s early here I didn’t see the word stopped.
I often am stopped by revolvers, particularly at gun shows.
“This one is different. Tell me about it!”
So, how hard is it to acquire .44 Mag revolvers in Norway?
It may be easier to get .44 magnum revolvers there.
Norway is somewhat less restrictive than most European countries.
In Svalbard, nobody is allowed to travel outside the city without a firearm. This is the world’s northernmost populated city.
Lots of polar bears in Svalbard. If she was still up and looking for food by now she was pretty hungry and probably pissed off to boot.
Pretty close. As long as some members of small groups are armed, not all members have to be armed.
Bear Spray is not allowed as a protection against bears.
Energy levels are required to be sufficient.
Minimums exist for rifles, shotguns, and handguns. Handgun energy levels are about full power .44 magnum. Some .41 magnum loads could make it, I think.
The 10mm does not have enough energy to be included.
“I personally like to see bears in the wild. Though I have no compunction against shooting one to death if need be”
Good for you!
I live in the land of brown/black bears and grizzlies...just a few months ago a sow and two cubs were checking out my driveway and one of the cubs tried to climb into my truck bed (overnight camera footage).
I do NOT ever want to see a polar bear or Kodiak in person after being WAAAAAAY too close to two Alaska brown bears one summer outside of S. Naknek at around 11:00 PM... BIG bad a$$ mo-fos them!
No reason why it needed to be a 44 magnum. It didn’t kill the bear - and a 44 magnum has a poor chance of killing a bear too!
Bears, including grizzlies, often take off after being shot by 9mm and 38s. Maybe the noise, or the sudden sharp pain they didn’t expect. Now, if it was a mama protecting its babies, that might be different.
Lots of bears are killed with pistols, but the purpose of a defensive use is to stop the attack.
I knew a guy that worked in a dump in Alaska. He was new, and one day they sent him out to “shoo away the polar bears.” How, he asked, does one do that? They put him in the bulldozer, and told him to lift the bucket up off the ground and just advance slowly toward the bear. Well...easy enough. When he got close, the bear stood up, made eye contact, and dropped its front feet down, hard, on the bucket. Here endeth the lesson.
Can you rent a gun at the city limits?
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“When he got close, the bear stood up, made eye contact, and dropped its front feet down, hard, on the bucket. Here endeth the lesson.”
I’ve driven two different front-end loaders - I get the ‘word picture’ you painted better than most will.
Wow!
it didn’t “need” to be but the 44 mag is far and away the most popular revolver for bear defense in far northern areas.
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