Posted on 10/10/2008 10:38:27 AM PDT by Stonewall Jackson
Hell yes!
See, this country isn’t made up entirely of men who are a bunch of fa%^&*#tt Obama supporters!
80 yards with an arrow in it's heart...almost a football field. Good grief.
Praise The Lord for heeding the father's prayers, or they would probably both have been eaten!
That’s one helluva guy!
Just another day for self respecting Wyoming men.
And there are laws in some states which prohibit carrying a gun when bow hunting IIRC. Bad idea to obey them, and I’d think the .44 would be OK for a pistol, but .45-70 or .458 would be my preference (with a rifle, that is).
I hope he gets something really nice for father’s day.
Just read an article on what to do when encountering a Grizzly in the current issue of “Eastman”.
The experts who were interviewed said:
1) Never run since you will trigger their chase instinct and they can run 30 miles an hour, which means that if you run as fast as an NFL halfback and have a 30 yard lead the bear will catch you in 6 seconds, gaining 17 feet per second.
2) Don’t climb a tree as grizzlies can quickly climb 30 feet in most trees. They have been seen to climb shear cliffs 40 yards.
3) Make yourself appear loud and big. Yell but do not scream. You don’t want to let on that you are scared. Do not bend down.
4) If the bear charges it will probably abort the charge, because it just wants to test your response.
5) If it doesn’t abort the charge you should stand and wait for the bear. If you can’t stand to watch the bear approach, you should turn around so you can’t see it get closer. After the bear makes contact, and only then, you play dead.
6) If after a minute of playing dead the bear is still attacking, you should fight back.
7) Pepper spray made especially for bears is more effective than gun. You should carry 2 cans worth in case you miss. The sprays have a range of about 20 feet.
8) You should camp in a dense thicket where a bear would not want to walk, but not where berries are.
9) You should use a tarp instead of a tent so you have a better shot with the pepper spray and a chance to spray more than once.
10) You should camp 1/2 mile from food that is in a special smell containment bag. Bears can smell 100 times better than a bloodhound. Their snouts are much longer with correspondingly greater smell receptors and their brains are specially partitioned to give them a better sense of smell.
11) You, your tarp, and your food bag should not be brightly colored.
12) Do not imagine that a bear’s eyesight is bad. It can see as well as you up to 120 yards away, and fix on a brightly colored person 1/2 a mile away. It doesn’t stand on it’s hind legs because its eyesight is bad, but to get a better vantage point.
13) Once you have established that the bear isn’t interested in pro-actively charging you, then slowly walk away at a 45 degree angle. By walking at an angle you are moving away in 2 directions simultaneously, which gives the illusion of greater distance.
14) The grizzly expert at Yellowstone says they have a bear attach 1 time out of 450,000 nights that people camp out.
15) There have been something like only 3 bear deaths in the last 10 years in the US, this include all types of bears.
brass balls ping
I have a ccw, so i can carry while hunting with my bow...and a .44 is what i carry
Or there’s my list:
1) Don’t go into the woods.
A guy who has spent his career studying Grizzlies said that he’s never been hurt by one and has been charged at twice.
When asked what it felt like to be charged by a Grizzly, he said you feel like you’re being approached by overwhelming power.
bttt
I guess with the bear market this is an especially timely post.
“How would you like to be out bow hunting and have this brute coming at you?”
It didn’t happen to me but it did happen to my x husb and his father in Alaska. The bear showed at camp and ‘Dad’ was doing his ‘morning duty’. My x was only 16. His dad was yelling ‘get the gun, shoot the ....”. FINALLY, he did. Still has the head hanging on his wall I suppose.
Thing is, if you are bow hunting in bow only season, ya can’t have a firearm of any kind.
So if ya miss you lose.
Not at this time of year. 'twould seem the bears will eat anything to fatten up for hibernation. Even Mr. Treadwell would likely be with us had he not returned to bear country in this season.
I don't have any experience with bears but I killed an 8 point white tail with a bow a few years ago in Pine Mountain Georgia. He ran about 20 yards and fell like a redwood. Stevie Wonder could’ve followed the blood trail.
I was impressed.
By the way, grizzlies tend to charge not black bears because Grizzlies habitat is open land and they don’t have any place to retreat to. It charges as self-defense, and is usually just bluffing to see your reaction.
Because of the habitat, grizzlies will see you much farther off and you therefore will be a lot less likley to happen upon them.
Wow, old lemming kills grizzly... That IS impressive! ;-)
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