mr.trooper
Member
There are over 11,000 threads on this forum alone that deal with "protection" from bears.
That alone should be enough to convince you that you are dead meat unless you pack some serious "bear medicine" - a Ruger Alaskan, snub nosed 480 is considered the minimum, but serious hikers know the 3" 500 magnum is the way to go.
With so many "experienced" internet know-it-alls worried about bears, you just KNOW that it HAS to be a real problem - an average of 2 & 8/10 people are killed each year by black and brown bears combined. The fact that most of those are elderly individuals is immaterial. After all, do YOU want to be that 8/10'ths of a person they find?
Bears are the scourge of the woods - like JAWS, but on land... And we all know how dangerous sharks are. How much is YOUR LIFE worth?
(This post is in jest. Just carry your normal gun for people protection / signaling device)
That alone should be enough to convince you that you are dead meat unless you pack some serious "bear medicine" - a Ruger Alaskan, snub nosed 480 is considered the minimum, but serious hikers know the 3" 500 magnum is the way to go.
With so many "experienced" internet know-it-alls worried about bears, you just KNOW that it HAS to be a real problem - an average of 2 & 8/10 people are killed each year by black and brown bears combined. The fact that most of those are elderly individuals is immaterial. After all, do YOU want to be that 8/10'ths of a person they find?
Bears are the scourge of the woods - like JAWS, but on land... And we all know how dangerous sharks are. How much is YOUR LIFE worth?
(This post is in jest. Just carry your normal gun for people protection / signaling device)
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