Posted on 04/14/2006 4:28:47 AM PDT by Liberty Valance
LOL Good for you but I doubt if the dog will be welcome. I am a granny too and I have seen bears in the wild. They are almost the only thing that I am afraid of. I would never walk in bear country, unless I was hunting bears.
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Our forefathers would never understand what restrictions the Government has placed on our "FREE" citizens..."
Yes they would. Their understanding of human nature had the greatest influence in their crafting of our Constitution.
They did such a good job that they hamstrung Human Nature for the better part of two centuries, alas...
http://www.opencarry.org/
"These ARE NOT tame, trained bears!"
I've had em' try to get into the trail shelter at night. When I used to hike up in Cherokee Natnl' Forest I just carried a gun for the dopers and the bears.
No, you have to have a permit to carry opening or concealed in TN unless you are on your own property. We can carry openly with a permit though. The ranger just chose to ignore the obvious gun for reasons known only to him. The drunks didn't care if I had a permit or not but the ranger ignored it.
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A lot of good it would have done in this case.
I think a lot of people get confused about the difference between a National Forest and National Park. The incident in this story took place in a National Forest where it is perfectly legal to carry a loaded handgun. In a National Park however, you weapon must be unloaded and disassembled.
I once read an account from colonial India (possibly by Kipling, as I recall) where the family residence of a British administrator was entered by a tiger in the middle of the night, and found itself in the bedroom of the children. The family dog, a progenitor of today's 'pit bull' breeds, gave it's life in defense of the children, but held the tiger at bay long enough that the father had time to respond to the commotion and to properly dispatch the cat.
Good dog ;~D
My dogs are afraid of small cats, let alone 800 pound ones.
'They are both magnificent and clumsy creatures'
I agree on the magnificent but clumsy? Compared to us they are a ballerina when hunting, or killing.
"a friggin' Disney movie"
...Which is where most of these idiots learned what they know about bears.
I always pack a .44 when I'm in bear country. I would never want to use it.
They aren't legal in National Forests.
One of the very stupid laws.
Are dogs allowed in thes parks? It occurs to me that if the family had had a dog or two it could have distracted the bear (not to mention detecting it's presence faster).
That's been my frustration on this thread too. Not only can you be armed in national forest, but they have (usually) open hunting seasons on these kinds of lands, and while carrying of rifles is restricted to hunting seasons, carrying a pistol for protection is not, any more than it is anywhere else, according to state law.
Wrong. KEEP READING
The only good bear is a dead bear.
Yes, dogs are allowed. And ~most~ black bears are in fact timid and would avoid a barking dog. This bear didn't act normal.
I know that you can hunt in alot of National Forests so I assume that you can carry a gun. National Parks are different from Forests.
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