Which Khukuri is Loaded for Bear?

20" sirupati. The one I have is the perfect combination of speed and heft. Its pretty heavy, but like others said with the adrenaline pumping... plus if the bear starts to push you over onto your back you could use his weight to drive the khuk into his chest---maybe.

If in bear country I would carry (at minimum) a .44mag loaded with CorBon 305gr penetrator rounds (made for smashing bone and killing dangerous game). Or if I could find such a thing, a .454 casull in a smaller carry gun or a .500. I think a small snub nose revolver that you could maneuver into position while fending off/having your other arm eaten, would be best. Although a suit of armor might be the way to go
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Bear Knife??? The 12" Sirupati, duct-taped to the front end of a 45-70 Marlin.
My offspring and his weird AF associates notwithstanding, and with all respect to Bill, the only way I'd use a grenade is from a 40mm launcher.
Al lives in a canyon, not far outside Spearfish, where just about everything wild in SD wanders through his yard at night. I live in small town, with a cornfield behind my neighbors across the street. We've both been serenaded by coyotes, and I've spooked one from the fenced back yard, but if I had reason to suspect bear in the area, I wouldn't consider a blade, given time to choose.
One night in NC, I took the Dobe out for his evening "walkies" and in the nightly ground fog,and we came face to face with a young yearling black, about 150 lbs. worth. We hit a three-way tie for scaring the bejesus out of each other, but I tied the Dobe in hitting the back steps. The next morning, a neighbor lady asked if we couldn't possibly keep the Dobe closer to home, as he had trampled through her vegetables and chewed up all her carrots. She was understandably upset, but her husband wouldn't get out of the truck. I was worried that he was mad at us, but when I went out to talk, he was doubled over the wheel, still laughing so hard he had tears in his eyes. Seems his city-bred schoolteacher wife was convinced our Dobe was the largest living thing in the 400-acre game perserve around our houses. He had decided that the wisest thing was to just let her run her course, and when we took Trooper to the garden, and the tracks were a full 4" wider than his, she relented. And wanted to put their place up for sale. _Right Now!!!_
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Well, it looks like people have been defending themselves against bears successfully with everything from a garden hoe to a Buck folder. This just might make a pretty good case for the khukuri being an excellent choice, if not as a primary weapon, certainly a back-up. Personally, I am comfortable with it being being the ONLY weapon, if it came to it.

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Nice stories! I think one's survival would also depend on there will to live. Some people just won't give up and die.

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Chris B.
 
Some martial arts talk about one shot one kill. Meaning you are only get one shot ot take this mass of fur and teeth out before you become a new chew toy for it.

If I have to fight the bear (no other possible way around it, no grenades ner nothin') I think that I would have to go with the Gelhbu Special 21'. I am willing to bet that if I was able to move, I could get at least *one* good shot in.
 
Matt,
How about your big forward curving Durba? Think you & I are the only ones with this blade!Bet it would do the job!
jim
 
Sometimes that critter is just having a bad hair day, and you are in the wrong place at the wrong time. The forward curving Durba that Matt and Jim mentioned sounds very interesting, I don't think I've ever seen one.

A good read that gives a sobering perspective on man's relationship to various critters is Peter Capstick's "Death in the Long Grass". Lot's of good stuff about various cats. He focuses primarily on African animals.

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I would probably have my YCS nearest to hand, unsheathed, and within close reach if I was sleeping out in bear country. But my 1st preference would be to sleep in a cave with no rear entrance and a couple of Claymores set in a strategic place at the front entrance.
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Then if a bear happened to come up you could have fresh sidemeat for breakfast.
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Indin word for lousy hunter.
 
The use of claymores and hand grenades for these purposes, reminds me of a guy I worked with (ex naval special forces / EOD operator and later commercial diver ) who got rid of the wild bores ploughing his backyard for potatoes (he still lives in a very hilly and densely wooded part of Italy) by leaving around some potatoes stuffed with fairly large size blasting caps.
Ciao
Fausto
 
Uncle,

I never go out without a khukuri of some kind, Boy Scouts be thanked. How does that go? - "a grenade a day keeps the critters away".

Yvsa, the cave and claymore upgrade sounds good. Didn't your old signature have something about sleeping with a knife handy?
If you want to see some of Odell's work head on over to
http://www.highspirits.com/

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I would want the special khukri with the 1/3" pipe fitted along the front end, forged by Garand and friends at Springfield. Holds 8 kardas which can be discharged rapidly in the general direction of any bear.

Tom
 
Tom, if that is what I think it is, it is not approved by The Boy Scouts- at least in this country.

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Fausto,

Your friend must have had a regular supply of pork, if not potatoes.



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Thanks Finn!!
Looking forward to meeting you in person Saturday. And Odell as well. You guys will probably blow me away with your music.
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My Flutes are made in the old way and although they sound good I can't say that they're tuned to any particular key.

Blasting caps in potatos sounds like a really neat way to harvest wild boars.
Talk about a man having his "Meat and Potatos"!!!!!
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And the meat from the wild hogs is said to be much sweeter than domestic ones.

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"VEGETARIAN".............
Indin word for lousy hunter.
 
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