WestTexShooter
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Appears nobody here has heard of a Flame Thrower?
Has anyone actually heard of an incident where someone fired any firearm in the general direction or vicinity of a black bear, that did not end with the bear just taking off? We have them in our neighborhood and all over the area, but never hear of any real problems. They are big though, so - it is something to keep a check on.
Not in my opinion.
I have spent about 6 weeks in the black bear mecca of central Ontario. Five of those weeks were totally unarmed except for my fillet knife and trusty tomahawk. My wife and kids on trails after dark carrying stringers of fish. Believe me I would have felt better with any kind of gun, even an lcp....but it ain't happening in Canada. I didnt want to try to cross the border with a carbine in the off season either, so nothing but my 'hawk.
The only actual bears we saw was at the dump (now that i think about it, the big ol' boar was sort of a local hero because he had survived being wounded by a city cop who shot him with his 9mm)
Bear tracks at every Portage, bear poop on the trails. Claw marks on fuel cans and chewed up ATV seats.
We survived.
Good story. I was at my Mom's house and she had found this show - and the guy basically was bear patrol for this area, not sure where - but, basically he would scare off bears that came into the housing areas of this place. He had all sorts of stuff to scare off black bears - he would shoot them with rubber pellets from a firearm. Kind of wonder if you have a smaller caliber handgun, even a .22 - if you just rattled several rubber loads at a black bear how quickly it would turn and exit.
A guy I know ran across a Muslim terrorist cell while camping in the woods. All he had was a Ruger 10/22 in the tent. I was the middleman between him and the area FBI agent that he reported the incident to back when I was with Department of Homeland Security. Scary stuff. One in a million encounter and no shots fired, obviously. But he now packs an AR-15 when camping, lol.