Re: Grizzly
I’ve spent years(since 1965) surveying in the remote Yukon wilderness & northern BC & have always carried a magnum revolver. Although encountering many bears both black & grizz luckily never had to use it.
In the 60’s one of the survey party chiefs killed a grizz with his 44 mag revolver. This was somewhere in the Hudson Hope/Chetwynd area. He was taking a drink from a small creek in the mountains when charged. The bear had no chance.
We’ve been charged by a large grizzly to within about 20 feet of meeting my maker. Once in a live or die situation one’s mental acuity is no doubt amplified. Soiling oneself is an old wife’s tale. There was no way one could use the bear spray in the 4 to 5 seconds. Yelling at the top of our lungs is what saved us. My 375 H&H was about 150 ft away.
Again I’ll stress the point that “Bear spray more effective than guns” is nothing more than liberal anti- gun, anti- hunter propaganda similar to the AGW propaganda they espouse both based on doctored up studies.
Here is a recent(little over a month ago) example where 3 + hunters would have probably been bear scat had they relied on Bear Spray.
A hunter near Gardiner and a group of hunters near West Yellowstone both reported shooting grizzly bears that charged them after bear spray failed to work.
http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/environment/hunters-kill-two-grizzlies-in-self-defense/article_79f49580-20a2-5788-aaf0-eef917238a1e.html
Last edited by mpotzold; 12-26-2015 at 08:45 PM.
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