You be careful out there.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/19...s-another.html
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You be careful out there.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/19...s-another.html
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I may have mentioned this before, but I swear when I was a teenager hunting doves about 75 miles SW of Ft. Worth, I walked around a cedar tree, and it was just me and the Mountain Lion eyeball to eyeball about 15 feet apart. It took one look/smell turned and ran off. I felt no threat, just a thrill at seeing one.
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This is very rare, however one came thru our neighborhood and killed everyone's house cat including ours. Fish and game gave us a permit to kill it and someone a couple streets from me did get it.
Old redneck hillbilly borned and raised on a redwood stump.
Yeah, **** happens. I am in the Columbia River Gorge near Mt. Hood, day 4 of a 10 day road trip with Ruth and the Pooches. We hike with a big can of bear spray.
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Bear spray? (snicker)
I hike with a gun.
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This article says the two bike riders did everything common wisdom said they should do, but the beast would not be denied —
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cou...aac-sederbaum/
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Mike, I never publicly state what I might actually have on the web.
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Nov 5, 1946 - Nov 19, 2018You just do what you have to do.Originally Posted by TriGuy
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Good policy!
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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The bear repellents I sold sprayed 400 grain flat-nose, flat-based solid-core droplets at 1,800 fps....The can, if properly used, will repel up to five bears...
Another method is to always go hiking with a buddy who runs slower than you do.....Ben
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Nov 5, 1946 - Nov 19, 2018http://tinyurl.com/ycl2mgecThe bear repellents I sold sprayed 400 grain flat-nose, flat-based solid-core droplets at 1,800 fps....The can, if properly used, will repel up to five bears...
Another method is to always go hiking with a buddy who runs slower than you do...
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Good one, Bob. It took me by surprise!
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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Truthfully I think you would have a lot of chances of getting hurt by many many more things out there than you ever would a cougar
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The ongoing debate is will a pistol bring down a bear before it brings you down or will it just piss him/her off more.
Same question about a mountain lion, I suppose. And, if you are hiking (or riding a trail bike), who wants to carry something like a .44Mag that has a chance of stopping a charging bear? Of course the most dangerous beast on a back woods trail is undoubtedly a human mugger and anything will stop one of those, done right.
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From Montana. Very sad.
In many bear encounters I never had a confrontation---but never was foolish enough to think they loved me.
In the upper right of this picture is my Alaskan bear defense---in 44 mag.
The second---one of my closer encounters with a 1000 lb class. The fact that he was engorged with salmon was to my benefit.
The lack of focus in the second is a testament to the fact that I was a bit shaken by his appearance coming out of a maze behind me.
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