The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Theres a confirmed story about a man in Alaska getting chased by a polar bear with one shot left in his .22 and no where to run with the bear closing on him. Shot blindly over his shoulder while running, hitting the bear in the eye and killing it.
Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
To be honest, I'm more worried about the growing wolf population around here than I am by bears. The very few instances that I've encountered bears (black bears) they have been pretty non-confrontational and seemed less interested in me than the grass they are scrounging in. I now carry a 9mm with +P loads and two extra mags. It adds considerable weight but at least it gives me more of a warm fuzzy feeling to have 48 rounds of something with some heat.