Bear Safety Advice?

[joltman]

Maybe @Hulk should change the thread title.

 

[Hulk]

Or we can create a competing thread with a very similar title.

 

[stusic]

Does anyone else see this thread title and keep thinking it says "beer safety advice?"

I don't think I'm helping...

 

[Corbet]

I don’t mind bears, don’t like cats, love beers

 

[ScaldedDog]

A variation I've heard is that all you'll ever see of a cat is the tail. That's been my experience, heard a rustling and maybe a tail climbing Deer Creek one morning with a buddy.

Although I was once riding at night on Green Mountain and well beyond the edge of my light was a group of glowing eyes about shoulder high and one set about knee high a few dozen yards off to the side...

That was spooky.

I choose to think it was a fawn laying down when I turned around.

From our place early last Thursday morning. Best watched on a PC rather than phone, and in a relatively dark room. See the tree in the middle of the driveway on the right? Look just left of it, to start:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_26hZBx0m_8


Mark

 

[Rzeppa]

From our place early last Thursday morning. Best watched on a PC rather than phone, and in a relatively dark room. See the tree in the middle of the driveway on the right? Look just left of it, to start:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_26hZBx0m_8


Mark

We've been wanting to get a trail cam for our backyard for just this kind of thing.

 

[rushthezeppelin]

In all seriousness though you probably want a 44 magnum or 10mm. I think some of the new 9mm monolithic copper penetrator stuff would likely work for our black bears too. Apparently warning shots actually work really well even with grizzlies.

 

[DaveInDenver]

In all seriousness though you probably want a 44 magnum or 10mm. I think some of the new 9mm monolithic copper penetrator stuff would likely work for our black bears too. Apparently warning shots actually work really well even with grizzlies.

Statistically more people survive a charging bear deploying pepper spray than a pistol.