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If only it worked that way in the real world.
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Legit need for a gun as protection in the woods?
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If only it worked that way in the real world.
People I know who have carried firearms overseas all seem to have stories involving that one animal... "bear". I'm glad I live in a country with no bears or snakes or mountain lions.
Many have said they carried handguns simply for the noise (including a couple of people I know who carried starter pistols). They weren't interested in shooting a bear, simply frightening it off with a loud noise.
One friend tells the interesting story of dog sledding in Iceland and carrying a firearm to protect against polar bears. He was living in the UK and trying to get a firearm licence so he could buy a firearm once he arived in Iceland. The UK license board said "why do you want a firearm?", he said "for protection against polar bears.", they said "no polar bears in England, licence DENIED". Thankfully someone else on the trip already had a licence so they could buy a rifle once they arrived. Did they see a polar bear? Yes. Did they need the rifle? Oh yes, they certainly did.
Another friend tells the story of a group of New Zealand Army soldiers being treed by a very angry pig. They shot it several times with their Steyr rifles, but those rifles only fire .22 shells and a shell that small is just going to make a pig angry. My mate said that usually they carried a shotgun with a solid slug load, purely for pigs, but that trip they had forgotten it. They were all daring each other "go on, leap on its back and cut it's throat" but they were all like "no way, you do it", "no, you do it". Heh.
Handguns are not allowed to be carried in this country, so if I were to carry something it would have to be a rifle or shotgun. I tramp on established tracks, places that pigs avoid, so there isn't any need for me to carry the weight of a rifle and ammo.
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When I was young we were chased by a hog once. We didn't have anything but our pellet guns, and spent some time up a tree waiting for him to get bored and go away. It took hours for that to happen.
Another time I was shoulder deep in a stream I was trying to cross when a cottonmouth surfaced ten feet away and came straight at me. I was totaly helpless. My buddy shot the snake right in the head with his pelet gun when it was 3' away from me.
Another time I was shoulder deep in a stream I was trying to cross when a cottonmouth surfaced ten feet away and came straight at me. I was totaly helpless. My buddy shot the snake right in the head with his pelet gun when it was 3' away from me.
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Speaking of pellet rifles.... I once got charged by a young bull when I was making my way across a pasture, oddly enough headed for the local creek to hunt snakes. 
Anyway, he started a couple of times (bluff charges?), so I was on guard. Third time, he didn't stop.... a .22 caliber pellet between the eyes (or at least that is where I was aiming) turned him in a heartbeat. No, I knew it wouldn't do anything other than sting him... but I also knew that I wouldn't be able to outrun him to the fence that was about 70 yards away.
He never bothered me again.
Anyway, he started a couple of times (bluff charges?), so I was on guard. Third time, he didn't stop.... a .22 caliber pellet between the eyes (or at least that is where I was aiming) turned him in a heartbeat. No, I knew it wouldn't do anything other than sting him... but I also knew that I wouldn't be able to outrun him to the fence that was about 70 yards away. He never bothered me again.