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Absolutely nothing compared to frozenchief's story and what Bwana could tell you but reminded me of a hiking trip in Smokey Mt National Forest.
Me and some old Army buddies were hiking and I noticed my friend that lived near there (who was hosting the trip) had a bell on his backpack. So I asked him if that was a bear bell to scare off bears. We were stopped standing there talking about that and one of the other guys suddenly says, "hey is that a bear?" We turn around and look off into the woods just about 25-30 meters or so off the trail and sure as shit there was a bear staring at us. I pull out my phone like a genius and snap a pic and as I'm taking a pic someone says "Hey look she has 2 cubs with her" as 2 cubs scurry up the tree next to her. We all suddenly had an oh **** moment and started walking as quickly and quietly down the trail as we could without running. ![]() ![]() Closest I ever hope to get to one. And never that close to a brown bear. Edit: Also I guess that bell was pretty useless. Probably thought it was a dinner bell. |
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4 Grizzly's, 2 black bear's and a butt load of moose. Only two of the encounters were sketchy, both grizzly's. One bluff charge and one at a few yards away. I walked around a corner of a building at night and he stood up and let out a couple of huffs. I was unarmed for that one and got the hell out of there. Other than that, I just encountered them running the other direction when I was coming at them on trails, riding ATV's. One of those did stop and stand up. He was trying to process what I was. I stood up on my ATV seat to get tall, waived my arms and he took off.
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This gun is short, 18" barrel. You too Frozenchief.
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Have you gone in for the hip replacement yet?
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But that is for Arkansas and only dealing with black bears. |
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Yep. That's what I carry when traipsing around Colorado. I never thought of bears in Arkansas. I was more worried about wild hogs when I was down that way.
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No kidding. It was like he was saying, if you're still around when all four legs hit the ground, you're getting your ass kicked. ![]()
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Well, as luck would have it after years of not needing to fire a weapon, it happened this evening.
![]() Had an armadillo rooting up the front yard, so I went after him with the BB gun and hit it several times without it even seeming to bother him. Once the BB gun needed reloaded, I came in the house and got my Glock 19. When I came back out of the house with it, the critter was gone so I fired a couple shots at the new burn barrel to make water drain holes . I really need to practice, but at least now it won't have water standing in it to rust it out if the lid is left off. ![]() Pretty exciting stuff, I know. |
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Until one night at the in laws one decided to pay me a visit when I was sitting on their deck. ![]() I think he came to raid their trash/bird feeder. Last edited by Nirvana58; 06-05-2024 at 09:38 PM.. |
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One thing I might mention though. They sure do spam your email, WOW. Thank you again for the recommendation! |
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