Posted on 04/30/2019 5:42:39 PM PDT by SJackson
will not be going there-—too much excitement for me
Thanks
We took one of our best family trips ever to Yellowstone and the Tetons eight years ago this July. The week before we were there, a man was mauled and killed near the Yellowstone Falls area. A large area was off limits to hiking. All five of us carried cans of bear spray and holsters. We donated it all when we left Jackson, WY.
A few pic-i-nic baskets with hams packed.
Concealed 12 gauge might be challenging.
Eureka, CA?
That’s my home town. Well, Cutten actually. Never heard of bears back in the 70s.
Something which is well known but for some reason ignored, is that more people die from black bear attacks than all others combined.
Not sure if that is just the U.S. or world wide.
I'm convinced that the park service is far more interested in protecting bears than they are protecting park visitors. There are plenty of grizzlies in Canada and Alaska. No need to repopulate all the former grizzly habitat in the lower 48. Same with wolves.
Even when firearms were not permitted, the unwritten rule in the national parks in Alaska was to carry. The rangers there insisted on it. Then again, that was Alaska where you are NOT at the top of the food chain.
I know, but they are cuter. The threat is more easily ignored.
12 gauge slugs will do next to nothing to bear’s skull.
I knew that ‘story’ would surface.....
I don’t even go where there are TSA agents, never mind where there are grizzly bears. Wouldn’t go to Yellowstone without at least a flame thrower. And John McClane.
No personal experience but I find that very hard to believe.
They just did a "study" in a town near the park during which they fired off bear spray at various distances.
Conventional wisdom was 60 feet.
These guys pretty quickly settled on 40 feet, just because even with a light breeze the spray tended to dissipate.
I suppose someone will have to do a study on the study.
These backpack set-ups are supposed to work pretty well.
That or lots of beans and garlic the night before lol..
"you are NOT at the top of the food chain"
THAT's what the dems proclaim about PRyno nevertrumpers.
When visiting your inlaws, pack bear spray.
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