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I can out run a bear,I will be running on clear ground ,and the bear will be running in 18" of shit.No pushin', I'ma just gonna run faster than you, bitch!
National Park Service encourages folks to ‘never push a slower friend down’ in bear encounters
“If you come across a bear, never push a slower friend down … even if you feel the friendship has run its course,” the service tweeted from its official account.www.channel3000.com
Did it growl in your face?
I had slobber & snot all over my t shirt & face. She scared the shit outta me a half dozen times & I only had a single shot (.35 remington) pistol.
What the hell? Were you down on the ground pinned down? She spared you, you lucky bastard.
Probably 90-95% of Grizzly/Brown bear charges are bluff.
I almost walked in to a black bear one night and it ran away!
I walked into a vestibule/mud room to hoist colors for the morning and bumped right into a Kodiak bear eating our dog food.
Those beasts are fucking huge. It could have ripped you to shreds!! Escaped death one more time. How lives do you have anyway?
He/She was a teenager & probably just as freaked out as I was - I dunno, I didn't look to see.
I remember when that pistol came out. Lot's of inexperienced shooters around here bought them and sold them months later with less than a box of bullets through them. The recoil was a bit too much for some people. There was a glut of them in the local gunshop here for awhile. I can see it's usefulness for big bear like what you had to deal with though. I carry a Glock 10mm for the same reason around the house. No brown bears around, so 10mm is fine for those oh crap encounters with black bear and feral dogs.
I reload (and have for 35+ years) - the cases are stupid expensive but better to roll your own than shell out up to $38 bucks for a cylinder full, plus the 440 gr hard cast will go clean through a bear even after smashing shoulder bones & those aren't available in store bought ammo.
I have a buddy that reloads and he loads me hard nosed rounds that are on the hot side. I have hollow point carry ammo for when I'm in town but at home it's these guys.
Just a thought to mull over - some prosecutors have been know to take the tact that if you reload you were "looking forward to shooting someone".