Come to think of it, there were some nerdy IT types back then, too...And even before that.
Posted on 10/10/2008 10:38:27 AM PDT by Stonewall Jackson
How do you know a minute's up if the bear eats the arm with your wristwatch first?
The pepper spray is specially formulated for bears.
They told me if I was caught by a bear to play dead. I did and he only, “ate me a little”.
What the hell is a little?
See, if he had had some bear pepper spray he may have been eaten even more.
Man, they don’t exactly grow sissies in the Cowboy State, do they???
A bear’s nose is more sensitive than a bloodhound’s. Many 100s of times more sensitive than a humans. They can follow a carrion scent literally for miles and miles like a homing beacon. It’s thought that they “see” smells.
So a hit with pepper spray gives them a massive pain in the brain. Like a person getting a WW2 air raid searchlight straight in the eyes at midnight. BOOM, they forget abuot you as they roll around in agony. At least, that’s the theory.
heheheh...I was wonderin how anybody could play dead while being eaten....after he chews your arms off, THEN fight back ???
These are the hard-as-woodpecker lips kind of guys that built this nation. This story reminds me a little of Zachary Bass, played by Richard Harris in the 1971 film "Man in the Wilderness." He was a trapper who's party was attacked by a grizz in the early 1800's. His party left him for dead and the guy, mauled, chewed and half-eaten, basically crawled back to civilization and later went out to track down and exact revenge on the folks that left him for dead. He let the youngest one live...some dude named Jim Bridger.
Back in 2000, I was TDY out in the Pacific Northwest, and stopped by Fort Clatsop, OR, where Lewis and Clarke wintered from 1805-06. It was there I had my revelation about how soft we've become as a nation....well many of us; certainly not the dad & son in this thread.
I'd never thought about that, but it makes sense. I know my shepherd dogs, and for comparison, a human has app. 1 square inch of olfactory receptor surface with app. 5 million receptor cells. A German Shepherd has about 6 square inches with app. 150 million receptor cells.
Bears have much bigger snouts than sheps.
I try to prep my kids, but it’s mostly to abstract for them. They cannot conceive of life without electricity, etc.
Wow... just wow. Good on that dad!!!
Well, in all fairness to them, Free Republic wouldn't be anywhere near as fun without it...
Good point. And there’s not much range or bandwidth with smoke signals or jungle drums.
Come to think of it, there were some nerdy IT types back then, too...And even before that.
No longer true in Oregon. ODFW got spanked because they were trying to impose this rule. Legislature said they had no authority.
Talked to a guy in Priest Lake Idaho who hunted griz with a bow.
Man has bigger ones than I.
No Pistola there & then.
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