What to do with bears

Simple rules Canada keeps it straight forward :thumbup:









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Phil
 
1894 said:
Simple rules Canada keeps it straight forward :thumbup:









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Phil
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Now thats funny...It had me going all the way till the end, I always say the best sarcasm is the sarcasm riddled with truth. Gene
 
Do you chacha? Bears love to dance.
 
pitdogs son here,

To be honest what i'd do is poo my self and get into the fetal position.:thumbup:
 
gunknifenut said:
Now thats funny...It had me going all the way till the end, I always say the best sarcasm is the sarcasm riddled with truth. Gene
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same here. except I was half way through and got busy and didn't come back for a while and I actually read your post first and had to go back and read it.
 
I hope I didn't ruin the joke...lol. Now that I think about it...isn't all sarcasm riddled with truth? I wrote that before my coffee. I shouldn't write anything before my coffee.......ahhh .....coffeeeeee. I love the gut grease man.
Seriously, I would not want to run into a Grizzly at close distance, I am afraid of only 4 animals, and could never meet 3 of them, The Shark, Croc and Hippo are not in my future....I don't go on boats, and will never go on a plane to another continent...I'm weird like that. The Grizz, well, I will go to Alaska someday, to follow in my Grandfathers footsteps...he planned on living up there till he died, he came back and died in the lower 48, I don't think I want to live up there for a long priod, but I do plan on driving up and visiting...so I will see one of those big mean suckers...I know I shouldn't fear them, but respect them instead. Still, they are friggin big! At the local gun store in the town I grew up in, they had one stuffed...I used to stare at it and wonder, what the hell would you do if that guy came after you??
I have already run into 2 black bears, one at close distance and he ran the other way...lucky bastard...I was about to go all Bruce Lee on his ass! I am not afraid of Blackies...I respect them, but I would stab the hell outta one if he was nibbling on my ear...he would probubly win, but this old boy would give it some scars.....or atleast that is the way I pretend it would go down:D

I am stretching the muscles that lay beneath the layers of fat that have formed in my later years, flexing the biceps that were much bigger years ago, now I am reaching down and scratching my belly, I think I will go and buy a six pack, and get a buzz...then later..I will stroke my knives and then I will flex in front of the mirror. Hear me ROAR! :rolleyes:
 
give the pic nic basket up or pull your pants down bend over and put your head between your legs so you can kiss your (BEAR ) naked a$$ goodbye
 
storl said:
Doc, those pics had me laughing out loud. Further proof that you need a good bear canister. Bears are smart and will get to your food if they really want it. They don't exactly have 3 PM meetings to be back in civilization for, so they have lots of time on their paws.
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Actually, I think I would rather leave the food out on the ground, and sleep in the bear canister hanging from the trees--sounds safer to me! By the time they finish off all the food, they will be too sleepy to try to play pinata with me in the canister (I hope)! :D
 
I dont think I would like to play dead - I ve seen several bears who get angry when their "food" stops playing with them. They sort of swat at it just to see if it would move.

Remember that a prevention is always better than a cure.
 
In the late 80s I was camping with my wife in northern Yellowstone National Park and stayed in a campground that had the trailers and campers in a circle...like a wagon train at night....and fire pits and picnic tables on the inside of the circle. I was in a borrowed cab-over-camper.

We were all talking (about 30 of us) at around 12:30 one night when a large brown bear just walked into camp....Can't tell you what kind cuz I was petrified but it was MUCH bigger than any dog I have ever seen. The bear walked from one side to the other of the fire pits and sniffed....then left the same way he came in. In the 30 trailers and campers there were about 8 dogs total tied up outside the trailers while we were talking...NOT ONE MADE A SOUND WHEN THE BEAR CAME IN...not a peep, whimper, growl....NOTHING.

That was a long ass night of fitful sleeping I tell you.
 
The video Staying Safe In Bear Country is well done, in my view. Describes some of the advice posted in this thread. Stephen Herrero, author of Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance collaborated in its making, along with the Alaskan and Yukon governments
 
I carry a glock 20 with full power Double Tap 200 gr beartooth loads. 16 rounds of that on tap and you can take out any black bear!
 
T-BAG said:
In the 30 trailers and campers there were about 8 dogs total tied up outside the trailers while we were talking...NOT ONE MADE A SOUND WHEN THE BEAR CAME IN...not a peep, whimper, growl....NOTHING.
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If I were tied up, I don't think I'd call attention to myself either! Smart dogs, I'd say.:p
 
Someplace I recall reading that an aggressive black bear can be just as dangerous as a grissly since he is probably hunting YOU.

It seems that the best thing is to use the preventative measures with respect to food/odors, make lots of noise on the trail and if they start coming into your camp space, and then carry bear spray in the event that they get close enough to threaten you. I do think bear spray is a better alternative to using a firearm, since the chance of missing and/or failing to stop a charge with the firearm is all too high.
 
Don't look like food,
Don't act like food,
Don't smell like food,
Don't startle the bear,
Don't be an idiot

If you see a bear cub, leave.
If you see a fresh kill, leave.
If you see an area of trees that have been pushed down, leave.
If the hair on the back of your neck stands up, or you get a bad feeling, leave.
If you feel like you are being watched, leave.


In Alaska, we woke up one morning and looked outside of our cabin and saw a little black bear sitting in the front seat of our old Jeep. It was in the drivers seat, with one paw on the steering wheel, leaning out the door and looking behind the Jeep.

We think it was trying to steal it.
 
xanax said:
I carry a glock 20 with full power Double Tap 200 gr beartooth loads. 16 rounds of that on tap and you can take out any black bear!
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It's better than nothing, but I'm not sure I would rely on it . . . sure you can kill the bear, but can you stop it before it kills you?
EDIT: but I'm not sure how big the bears are where you live. Some of the PA bears I saw could be stopped with a smaller gun, but I didn't want to be the one to find out.

A friend of our family is a guide in Alaska. He always laughs about one guy he took out hunting who pulled out his Dirty Harry .357 Magnum and stated that no bear would get him with that gun.
My friend (the guide) laughed, and said that the gun would be good for one of two things:
1- Throw on the trail so that the bear will trip over it
2- Shoot yourself in the head so you don't feel anything when the bear gets you.

When you shoot a bear, and it drops, you shoot it at least one more time (maybe two).
If you have to go after a wounded bear that went into cover, you take a shotgun loaded with buckshot and/or slugs, NOT a rifle. The rifle simply doesn't have the knock-down power at close ranges.

There are people who have taken bears with small caliber pistols. There are even stories about Eskimos killing Polar bears with spears (one kid was being charged, he put his spear in the snow behind him, dove out of the way, and the bear died on the spear), but those are the exceptions, and not the rule.

Bears (even little black bears) are massive animals that are not easily stopped. You could be the exception to the rule with a little pistol, but I personally wouldn't risk the odds.
 
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