.357 against bears

[Guillermo]

Hey Red,

I was making a reference to an old joke.

A guy from Texas moves to Alaska and he goes to the only bar in town. The bartender told "Tex" he could not drink there because he was not an Eskimo, but there is a way to become an Eskimo. What is it, inquired Tex. Well first you have to drink a gallon of red eye whiskey in one drink, then you must wrestle a polar bear, then you must “have relations” with that Eskimo woman at the end of the bar. No problem exclaims Tex. He picks up the gallon jug and downs the whiskey. He spits and curses, kicks the door and away he goes. Days go by and no word from Tex, suddenly the door bolts open and in staggers Tex all cut up and bleeding. Now where is the Eskimo woman I was supposed to wrestle?

 

[MCgunner]

One tough SOB I'd say.

 

[Redhawk1]

That's a good one Guillermo.

 

[Leanwolf]

I've killed two Black bears, both in California, while hunting them. One in Shasta County (250 pounds) and the other in Tulare County (400+ pounds).

The meat from both was excellent, plus the fat rendered down into pure lard was outstanding in cooking.

An incident of which I know was kinda interesting. IN 1979, three friends of mine and I had contracted with an outfitter in the high Sierra, to use his horses and mules to take us to an area on a Spot camp where we were going to hunt for deer. (Our equipment; his horses and mules.) This was at Reds Meadow Pack Station in the eastern Sierra, in the Devil's Postpile area.

At the pack station/trail head, there was a tiny cafe which sold light meals. When we arrived for our trip, they were pounding nails into a plywood cover over the window into the kitchen. A large Black bear had tried to crawl through the window into the kitchen, in the middle of the day.

The woman who was the cook, a cool person indeed!, had grabbed a .30-06 rifle standing in the corner of the kitchen and killed the Black bear which was about half way inside the window when she shot.

Proves that it never hurts to be armed while cooking cheeseburgers in the high Sierra!!

L.W.