Gun Control is Completely Useless.
- Thread starter Colpy
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The noise might be enough to save your life, I carried bear scare and bangers due to no restrictive license, shotgun and slugs proved useless as well due to time to react.
Take some handgun training. Then, visit a zoo. Look at the bears. Look at the big ones, like Polar or Grizzly bears. They are much tougher than us fragile, little humans. Our species is utterly defenceless except for our huge brain contained in a thin, eggshell skull. The bear has a skull like battleship plate, compared to ours. Picture yourself killing one with the first shot. You likely will not get the chance for a second one, as a wounded, pissed off, hard-wired killing machine will rip you from limb to limb IMMEDIATELY after your wounding it.
You have the right idea ... make lots of noise and avoid the confrontation, all together. You don't need Colt to do that. That's just boys justifying their toys.
We outfitted and guided for bear, but go ahead and tell me what is best for my safety, we dealt with Black bears the 2 that scared us were sow and cubs, and Boar in rut, the ones that made us nervous were young curious ones. The chance of shooting one in the heat of the moment is slim but the noise might do the job. We use to have a dog that ran with us while baiting he did his job as well.
I've seen two vids of men turning a grizzly bear with cubs from a full-on charge with a .44 Magnum handgun.........in neither case did they actually shoot the bear, they simply fired the weapon in their face, turned so the bullet would not hit them. In both cases they could have put one in the cranium. Both bears turned and fled.
One was a wildlife photographer in BC.
The other guys were canoeing in the USA somewhere.
Not many years ago in BC a hunter was bushwhacked by a grizzly from behind and managed to kill it..........with his hunting knife. His rifle was knocked away in the initial attack. He was badly mauled and would have died had his friends not found him almost immediately and administered first aid and rushed him to medical care.
I bet that bear is having a rough time in bear paradise....."A hu-man killed you with WHAT????" lol
Sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you.
You would agree, though that relying on a hand gun to protect you from a bear would be for experts only? Not many experts out there.
I knew the country fairly well 35 years ago. We staked the centre line (for the new highway) from Sayward to Eve River summit and a lot of work around Port Hardy including the survey for Bear Cove Ferry access. Small world.
Yeah, I wouldn't advise anyone to depend on a hand gun for bear defense in grizzly or polar country, that's for sure.
A shotgun loaded with slugs would be my preference.
That said, a handgun with you is better defense than a shotgun you left at home........
A .44 in the hands of an Inexperienced shooter would likely flip them on their backs and make those soft entrails that much more available. Any calbre less than that would be a less effective noisemaker than a dollar store freon horn.
When you are driving a quad with food on the back things can get interesting, Once walking back to the quad there were 2 young ones trying to pull the bait buckets down from the rack of the quad, like I said interesting.
Yes walking or tracking a carbine is better, on a bike not so much with the restrictions of the law, thrown over the back with a sling is a different story.