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Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
What's your 40 time?
Originally posted by: BladeVenom
Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
What's your 40 time?
You can't outrun a bear.
Originally posted by: mizzou
I'm hiking in the backcountry of smokey mountains where there is reportedly 1 bear every 1 square mile.
Will be mating season, so I need to know how to fight black bears w/out a gun.
I currently just have a small tactical style buck-knife with a 3 inch x 2 inch blade, pretty sturdy and sharp for stabbing, but I would have to be real damn close.
I was thinking maybe just pick up a stick along the way and use it as a pike against a bear? Like stick it in it's mouth or something.
Apparently you can't play dead w/ aggressive black bears
Originally posted by: uberman
You could also dress like a female bear so the male bears won't be mean to you. Dress conservativly as a bear, don't wear suggestive bear outfits.
Originally posted by: uberman
I used to live in Kodiak, AK. The government would give the Young Adult Conservation Corp .270 rifles for bears. You should make lots of noise in the woods to scare the bear rather than startle it. We never thought handguns were good for bears.
You could also dress like a female bear so the male bears won't be mean to you. Dress conservativly as a bear, don't wear suggestive bear outfits.
A guy was being chased by a grizzly at Mt. McKinley Park in Alaska. While running he threw down his pack with the food in it. The bear went after the pack. The guy ran away.
Originally posted by: IGBT
..the noise is the best advice. experienced hikers will wear a small bell or some other noise maker. I put small bells on my dogs. I see lots of bear scat but not the bears.
Originally posted by: BladeVenom
Originally posted by: IGBT
..the noise is the best advice. experienced hikers will wear a small bell or some other noise maker. I put small bells on my dogs. I see lots of bear scat but not the bears.
Does the scat have bells in it?
Originally posted by: Rebasxer
This is one of the stupidest posts I have read in a long time. The OP is trying to fight off a bear with a three inch blade tied to a stick and a hatchet. Get a large caliber handgun or a rifle. Jesus
Originally posted by: mizzou
Originally posted by: Rebasxer
This is one of the stupidest posts I have read in a long time. The OP is trying to fight off a bear with a three inch blade tied to a stick and a hatchet. Get a large caliber handgun or a rifle. Jesus
OH jeez,
I am doing what thousands of people do every year, hike in the Smokey Mountains, where there will likely be dozens more people per square mile vs. the population of bears.
So would a gun be safe in that situation? Do I even own a $500-$1000 gun?
No, I just own a nice hatchet and a pocket knife, and I need some survival tactics in case a bear decides to make me his lunch.
I.E., where are it's weak spots, should I jab or slash? Go for the nose or the eyes? Axe or Knife?
Originally posted by: buck
Stop being such a nancy, my 60 year old dad hikes on the appalachian trail by himself a few times a year (not all, just parts of it).
Originally posted by: S h o o B i E x
I don't know what you guys are talking about. Any male that weighs at least 150 pounds can easily take a black bear, or any bear for that matter, in one on one combat. All you need to do is get wrist control then punch it in the nose and it's head will pop off and candies will come out. I'm surprised no one knew this.
Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Originally posted by: S h o o B i E x
I don't know what you guys are talking about. Any male that weighs at least 150 pounds can easily take a black bear, or any bear for that matter, in one on one combat. All you need to do is get wrist control then punch it in the nose and it's head will pop off and candies will come out. I'm surprised no one knew this.
Wrist control is the key...but do bears have wrists per se?
Originally posted by: mizzou
OH jeez,
I am doing what thousands of people do every year, hike in the Smokey Mountains, where there will likely be dozens more people per square mile vs. the population of bears.
So would a gun be safe in that situation? Do I even own a $500-$1000 gun?
No, I just own a nice hatchet and a pocket knife, and I need some survival tactics in case a bear decides to make me his lunch.
I.E., where are it's weak spots, should I jab or slash? Go for the nose or the eyes? Axe or Knife?