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Greetings Hypermole,
I was looking to see where you were from but can't tell . Your statement about using a large Buck for defense against Bears or Wolves stimulated my reply here.
My credits are 34 years as a federal wildlife professional with some Rockies bear experience and with many friends in Alaska, Montana and the wolf area around the Great Lakes.
I know you 'feel' more secure with a big knife strapped to your belt, but let me say to you and everyone else a knife in defense against either one of these animals is a last effort , a 'I am certainly gonna die' event. Far better if you are in Bear and Wolf country is a LARGE pepper spray or even a canned gas boat horn. The idea is to keep them away. Once one of these guys have grabbed on to you, something is gonna be broken and bleeding quickly. Our Alaska people carry short barreled 12ga's with slug or a big pepper spray on their belts. I doubt anything else will deter a real full blown attack, no matter the one or two stories where someone stabbed a bear to death. The main object is to keep them back as you back up and leave. If forced to have only a big knife I would use it to cut a stout 8 foot pole and sharpen the end.
Don't want to change the direction of this thread with bear stories, please, I am just commenting for anyone reading this big knife thread who may have picked up the idea that one of these knives is all you need to slay dragons.
300Bucks
I was looking to see where you were from but can't tell . Your statement about using a large Buck for defense against Bears or Wolves stimulated my reply here.
My credits are 34 years as a federal wildlife professional with some Rockies bear experience and with many friends in Alaska, Montana and the wolf area around the Great Lakes.
I know you 'feel' more secure with a big knife strapped to your belt, but let me say to you and everyone else a knife in defense against either one of these animals is a last effort , a 'I am certainly gonna die' event. Far better if you are in Bear and Wolf country is a LARGE pepper spray or even a canned gas boat horn. The idea is to keep them away. Once one of these guys have grabbed on to you, something is gonna be broken and bleeding quickly. Our Alaska people carry short barreled 12ga's with slug or a big pepper spray on their belts. I doubt anything else will deter a real full blown attack, no matter the one or two stories where someone stabbed a bear to death. The main object is to keep them back as you back up and leave. If forced to have only a big knife I would use it to cut a stout 8 foot pole and sharpen the end.
Don't want to change the direction of this thread with bear stories, please, I am just commenting for anyone reading this big knife thread who may have picked up the idea that one of these knives is all you need to slay dragons.
300Bucks
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