What Wood for Bear?

[obxned]

A guy I know who plays flog suggested a #1 wood.

 

[USMC6177]

Pfft wood............everyone knows that the new Glock (TM) Polymer Composite Decking is way more dependable and I saw a vid where they ran over it with a cement truck and lit it on fire and you could still kill a charging bear with it.

 

[TallPine]

I wood knot want to try that

 

[gunsmith]

I wooden mess with that Marine

 

[Siderite]

uh oh

looks like this thread might challenge the vaunted ".30-06 Vs A Pointed Stick" Thread at TFL (if you haven't already, read it at: http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=185348 )

 

[jeepmor]

Sometimes, being lucky is better than being good. Case in point.

 

[TehK1w1]

Pine is cheap and comes in many varieties.
Oak has more heft but is more expensive and heavier.
high-power logs such as hickory, sycamore, and walnut are excellent stoppers but are very expensive. with these you also run the risk of being accused of carrying excessively powerful logs that are only good for killing bears, and have no place in honest citizen's campfires.

 

[pcosmar]

Years ago, as a youth, I worked cutting pulp wood. I heard the story many times from several people about a guy that killed a bear with a knife.
I got up the courage to ask "jako" about it. In a slow sad voice he told me.
"The bear started it".

 

[Wedge]

Walnut...as in the stock on my Remington 11

 

[Correia]

Uh, there's a gun in the story, so I guess this is on topic, though I had to think about it for a second.

I wonder who would win in a fight? This guy, or the the guy who killed the shark with his bare hands after it ate his nephew's arm?