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Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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GreatwhiteNorth said:
After looking at the pic again, I am pretty sure think it's photo shopped - for one, bears come out of their dens around April (here at least) and as they den very high on the mountain sides there would be snow everywhere. Plus the mortar crew is not dressed for the cold.
Did I mention that the mortar is just lifting from the barrel of the launcher with no vapors or smoke?

Cool pic, just not buying it - why tf would a photographer stand directly above it when firing?

BTW @macsnax, up here most black bear attacks on humans are primarily predatory in nature and for the most part fatal for the prey (us) - and a 7 Mag is a lousy bear round - not enough weight on the projectile to reliably break big bones & stop a critter determined to kill you.
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i assumed the bear had just dropped that shell into the mortar, and it hadn't dropped yet. and if you were sharing a foxhole with a 700 pound brownie, you wouldn't need a coat, either....lot of body heat.
you never heard of project Ursa? during WW2, all along the Russian front, bears were trained to fire mortars, drive tanks, plant land mines, locate honey, and annoy rabbit......wait, those last two were only for pooh bears...which was a different brigade, entirely
 
BudmanTX

BudmanTX

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GreatwhiteNorth said:
After looking at the pic again, I am pretty sure it's photo shopped - for one, bears come out of their dens around April (here at least) and as they den very high on the mountain sides there would be snow everywhere. Plus the mortar crew is not dressed for the cold.
Did I mention that the mortar is just lifting from the barrel of the launcher with no vapors or smoke?

Cool pic, just not buying it - why tf would a photographer stand directly above it when firing?

BTW @macsnax, up here most black bear attacks on humans are primarily predatory in nature and for the most part fatal for the prey (us) - and a 7 Mag is a lousy bear round - not enough weight on the projectile to reliably break big bones & stop a critter determined to kill you.
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let me do some research, when i read this, had me pondering now as well...
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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BudmanTX said:
ok after doing a little research, thanks to GWN, the picture of the bear is fake....here i'll show ya...

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you have to get to the pixels when looking at it, also what GWN mentioned before......seems someone cut someone else out......

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as you can tell, it is......
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noooo....i think that second picture is fake....to cover up project ursa...
 
BudmanTX

BudmanTX

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well while i was doing the research here at work, i found out there was a bear involved, just not on the German side, it was on the allied side.....his name was Wojtek, and he was involved in the Battle of Monte Cassino.....he was a syrian brown bear, with a rank of Corporal in the 22nd Artillery Supply Company II corp out of Poland.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear)

it's good read....
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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Two nights ago I saw Comet 46P/Wirtanen. It isn't an intrinsically bright object, but it's close. It showed in my binos as a large faint puff of light. It was symmetrical and without a visible nucleus. It was big - larger than the full moon - but with a very low surface brightness. I could just make it out through some ground haze.

 
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