Protection knife against wild animals.

My trail/camp equipment in bear country...

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(7-shot .357)

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(180 gr. hard cast .357 @ 1489 fps. out of handgun 885 fpe)

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I would like to give a big congrats to all of those, myself included who made this wonderful thread a full 15 pages.
 
I have no doubt that this informative thread has already saved countless lives. Thanks Bladeforums!
 
I either scare the bear off with a 44too, Cutlass or LeSabre, and if that isn't enough, turning up the radio with a Cyndi Lauper CD in it usually does the trick. :D
 
I read about a man who killed an attacking cougar with a 3" folder. It had pounced on him and for whatever reason went for the bedroll instead of his neck. The man jabbed his little knife into the cat's neck several times, killing it.
 
I do find while walking through thick under story, yelling BEAR KNIFE! BEAR KNIFE! works better than YO BEAR! YO BEAR! in rural areas. :D
 
zpstl321 said:
I ain't mess'n with a bear that poops out a knife that big and keeps on going!
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:D

Are you kidding. This is a knife forum and finding a bear like that, is like finding the Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs, but in 1095 & S30V steel. :D:D:D
 
It's retartded to think you should use a knife on an animal like that , I mean really a bear or a cat would have you on the ground before you even get a chance to use a knife on it , it's called a gun or bear spray but my quest if you want to get your neck ripped open cause you wanted to knife fight with a bear or a cat
 
Spudly94 said:
It's retartded to think you should use a knife on an animal like that , I mean really a bear or a cat would have you on the ground before you even get a chance to use a knife on it , it's called a gun or bear spray but my quest if you want to get your neck ripped open cause you wanted to knife fight with a bear or a cat
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How then do you explain the people who have successfully defended themselves against cougars, often with a medium sized folding knife?


Special Report from Animal Attack Files Correspondent: J. David Varty
from Canada.com



Man survives cougar attack by killing it

Friday, August 02, 2002


Cougar attack in Port Alice, Canada

BCTV News on Global

61-year-old Dave Parker stabbed this cougar to death with his pocketknife after it jumped him on a Port Alice trail.




BCTV News on Global

The knife Dave Parker used to kill the cougar.




BCTV News on Global




A 61-year-old man won a life-and-death struggle with a cougar outside a small northern Vancouver Island village, killing the animal with his 7.5-centimetre pocket knife.

Dave Parker was jumped from behind while walking on an industrial road two kilometres south of Port Alice, a village of 1,300 about 370 kilometres north of Victoria.

The retired pulp-mill worker was attacked Thursday evening by a 45-kilogram adult male cat, conservation officer Ken Fujino said.

"It was thin but by no means starving," Fujino said from Port Hardy, the nearest sizable town.

"There was no indications as to any physical injuries that we could see that may have provoked the attack."

Parker was being mauled but managed to get to his folding pocket knife.

"A lot of people carry knives out here, or bear spray," said Port Alice Mayor Larry Pepper, a friend of Parker. "People are quite conscious of the fact there's cougars here."

Pepper said Parker managed to turn on the attacking cougar and slit its throat.

Despite extensive wounds, Parker managed to walk about a kilometre to a forest mill's log-sorting area. Late-shift workers rushed him to Port Alice's tiny hospital.

" Because of the seriousness of his injuries they took him by ambulance to Port Hardy and flew him down to the hospital (in Victoria)," said Fujino.

He underwent surgery Friday to repair his wounds and was recovering in the intensive-care unit.

"He's out of surgery and in stable condition," Lianne Peterson, a spokeswoman for Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, said Friday afternoon. "I don't know much about the surgery other than plastic surgeons were involved."

Pepper said Parker liked to hike and was in good physical condition.

RCMP Const. Jeff Flindall said police found Parker's knife next to the carcass of the dead cougar.

"It is a pocket knife and it is approximately three inches long," Flindall said from Port Alice.

Fujino said there have been a spate of cougar sightings around Port Alice in recent weeks.

"Generally as a whole cougar attacks are fairly rare," he said.

However, the village was the scene of a serious cougar attack two years ago.

A Seattle tourist was cycling outside Port Alice when he was jumped by an injured cougar.

A passing motorist saw the man struggling with the cat and waded in to chase it away. The animal was later tracked and killed by conservation officers.

© Copyright 2002 CP Broadcast News
 
Or:


Father Saves 6-Year-Old Son by Stabbing Mountain Lion in the Chest With His Pocket Knife


6-year-old Rivers Hobbs was walking with his family at Big Bend National Park in West Texas, when a mountain lion pounced on him. Rivers’ mother tried to hold on to him, but the cat pulled the boy to the ground, clamping its jaws onto his head. That’s when his father, Jason, pulled out his pocket knife and stabbed the mountain lion in the chest, causing the cat to let go and run away. Nice going, dad.
 
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