That b---h can really run!
Throw stuff too!
Posted on 08/06/2015 8:09:16 AM PDT by Perseverando
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Two employees of an Alaska backcountry lodge startled an adult grizzly bear while running on a trail in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. The bear stepped out of thick brush and mauled one woman while the other ran for help.
Gabriele Markel, 20, was recovering Wednesday at an Anchorage hospital. Her wounds, which authorities described as bites and scratches on her head, back and arm, weren't considered life-threatening. She was upgraded to good condition from fair on Wednesday, authorities said.
Markel and a co-worker, Kaitlyn Haley, 26, of California, were running Tuesday afternoon on the Cottonwood Creek Trail near Upper Skilak Lake. They were about three-quarters of a mile from the lodge when the mauling happened.
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That b---h can really run!
Throw stuff too!
Us old geezers are always looking for an edge...
;-)
The woman who ran could not have done anything to help the woman who was attacked.
I have been on quite a few bear hunts with my husband. I was not armed but I was with 3 men who were and I was still scared.
Stay out the Bears house.... He eat you up
Daughter of noted Sporting Clays shooter John Markel.
“Never jog in Alaska without your 454 survival revolver.”
and bear spray and helmet and armor plate and bells and whistle and bowie knife. Maybe I will just buy a treadmill and stay home. More cost effective.
And to think the majority of environmentalists and outdoor clubs like the Sierra Club are in favor of reintroducing Grizzly bears to the Washington State Cascades.
These very same A holes are vehemently anti-gun.
Black bears are bad enough. But, Grizzlies?
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I’m not so sure about this. Perhaps it is better to let the bears depopulate Washington and Oregon.
I've read stories about how a large caliber revolver is needed to kill a full size grizzly. But a few years ago I read an account of a young male who while out hiking/walking with his girl friend in Alaska, killed a charging adult grizzly with a nine millimeter.
A number of people on this forum (supposedly in the know) said a nine was not sufficient to do the job. Maybe the guy just had very good aim.
In Alaska, when you step out of your house, you are then a part of the food chain, and it is not the top.
Good aim and great luck. As a lifelong hunter and shooter, vet, and son of a gunsmith, if a grizzly is the target, I will trust nothing less than a .45 or larger. 9mm is basically a .38 with a touch more powder.
If you do a Google for, Alaskan 454 survival, you will see a vid of one of Rugars finest revolvers. A wonderful anti grizzly weapon.
Amen! After moving Outside, it took me about a year to get used to going outdoors without pausing to look/listen/sniff for bears. We lived in Valdez in the woods. Used to be the largest population of brown bears on the mainland in that area.
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