Knife to carry in Bear country

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Lesknife said:
Here is an interesting article.

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Last Stand

Armed with only a knife, a desperate hunter takes on a grizzly.
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He killed a Grizzly with a punch under the eye? That severed a vertebrae?
Rrrrrright.... George Foreman and Sonny Liston combined couldn't make a bear flinch with a punch to the head.
And the eye is not connected to vertebrae
Maybe the rifle shots to the chest had something to do with it.

( Grizzly skull is the bigger one)
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Great story, though
 
Oklahoma Outlaw said:
A pic-a-nic basket could de-escalate the conflict.
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We don't negotiate with bearorists.

I actually ordered a "bear knife" from Yangdu at Himalayan Imports nearly 10 years ago. The original plan was that my late father in law wanted some of his ashes spread in Ireland and some in California, and I wanted a big blade for hiking through bear country while out west.

It's got about a 13" blade, 18" over all. Lots of belly with a quasi sharpened swedge.

We never made it out to Cali, so it's sat largely unused for years. One day.

Since a sharpened swedge is out, I would probably go with a 15" khukuri, or maybe my 18" seax. If a bear gets to eat me, I get to go out like a viking...plus a seax would make a nice toothpick for Bruno.
 
Actually being serious: the knife with the handle that you can hold onto the longest: will do you the most good.
Once Yogi chews your hands and arms into mush: you're done anyway...
You won't have very much time to do any damage.
 
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HJK said:
I've been close to grizzlies and polar bears and they are both awesome. But only the polar bear has to kill to eat and it is the top of the food chain, with the possible exception of an Orca when the bear is swimming. One day in Resolute a whale washed up on shore and that attracted the polar bears. The whole town came out to see them and all the inuit came alive to go out and look at them. They hold a very deep spirtitual connection up there for these folks. They are seriously protected and back then there was a quota of 2 for the season at a value of $10k each, usually awarded to german tourists. Magnificent animals, and the hides are huge. Two campers shot and killed one that got into their tent and were forced to go back and get the hide because that was part of the quota. It cost them $10k even in self defence.

Everyone in his right mind in bear country should have a gun. I often didn't, but then again i said you have to be in your right mind...


I think the chances of surviving an encounter with an angry Polar bear or grizzly are pretty slim. A grizzly can break the back of a moose with one swipe, and your chance against an angry moose is also next to zero, unless you get this guy:
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I remember hiking in Nova Scotia and turning a corner and coming face-to-chest with a male moose. Did not realize how big they were until that moment.
 
Insipid Moniker said:
I remember hiking in Nova Scotia and turning a corner and coming face-to-chest with a male moose. Did not realize how big they were until that moment.
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I do lots of Hiking in my local rocky mountains. The biggest scare is running across a moose. Bison are the other monster. I have run across black bear 8 or 9 times and I mean within 5-15 ft and every time the Black bear has run off. I had a grizzly tracking me north of yellowstone. He followed closely for about 3 miles. Was a little concerned as there was no open space for a buffer zone.
 
Cobalt said:
I do lots of Hiking in my local rocky mountains. The biggest scare is running across a moose. Bison are the other monster. I have run across black bear 8 or 9 times and I mean within 5-15 ft and every time the Black bear has run off. I had a grizzly tracking me north of yellowstone. He followed closely for about 3 miles. Was a little concerned as there was no open space for a buffer zone.
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The male moose was totally uninterested in me, thankfully, so I started making a slow retreat. That turned into an extremely rapid retreat when a female moose came charging through the brush with her calf. Thankfully, she was intent on driving off the male because I have no illusions about my ability to outrun a moose.
 
Insipid Moniker said:
The male moose was totally uninterested in me, thankfully, so I started making a slow retreat. That turned into an extremely rapid retreat when a female moose came charging through the brush with her calf. Thankfully, she was intent on driving off the male because I have no illusions about my ability to outrun a moose.
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Their attitude is one of, "I am the biggest thing in the Forrest and you will move out of my way"
 
A Bull Moose has a head on it that's about the size of a garbage can...
 
Go with someone you can out run.
Be really paranoid about any sounds you hear.
Bring a good walking staff accompanied with a knife that you'd feel confident if you were attacked. At least with the walking cane, you'd probably have enough time to get the knife in the fight position.
When I hunted in Arkansas, the area I was in, the black bears were protected. I was told to bring a good dowel rod to discourage a bear if one tried to get into my tree stand. Never did see one and I hunted there for only one season.
 
If a bear tried climbing into my tree-stand with me: he'd slip and fall to his death.
I'd be raining poop on him; during the ascent...
 
Face it: you'd be facing long odds.... regardless of the knife.
After all: they're packing 20 "knives" on them, and a mouthful of teeth!
 
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