EnsignExpendable Posted July 1, 2017 Report Share Posted July 1, 2017 1 hour ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said: http://juneauempire.com/news/2017-06-30/armed-11-year-old-boy-saves-fishing-party-charging-bear 11 year old puts a birdshot and 3 slugs into a brown bear. Kills the thing, and the Alaskan Fish and Game people are actually allowing him to keep the hide. Nice! Can birdshot even penetrate bear hide? The slugs probably fucked it up though, gotta aim for the eye if you want a good hide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted July 1, 2017 Report Share Posted July 1, 2017 2 hours ago, Donward said: And no surprise the birdshot didn't do shit. Although we always load one or two "cheap" rounds in our guns to use as noise makers in case we need to scare a bruin off. Also TFB needs to hire this kid to teach Patrick R the proper way to cycle a pump gun under pressure... *sips Hudson Bay tea* *Evil grin* A park ranger in Estes Park, CO recently killed a black bear with birdshot. I'll try to find the article. Bear was found dead a day later. I'm thinking a pellet worked its way to the bear's heart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted July 1, 2017 Report Share Posted July 1, 2017 Juneau Empire reporting on the Clarks, eh? Hahahah. (The boy would have been toast if he'd gone up against an ancient maneating forest spirit, just sayin') Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted July 2, 2017 Report Share Posted July 2, 2017 4 hours ago, Sturgeon said: Juneau Empire reporting on the Clarks, eh? Hahahah. (The boy would have been toast if he'd gone up against an ancient maneating forest spirit, just sayin') Oh look it's a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted July 2, 2017 Report Share Posted July 2, 2017 Just now, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said: Oh look it's a Fuck you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted July 7, 2017 Report Share Posted July 7, 2017 https://www.si.com/edge/2017/07/07/kenyan-marathon-runner-escapes-bears-maine Kenyan Marathon Runner Escapes Bear in Maine A professional marathoner from Kenya had a harrowing encounter with a pair of black bears while out for a morning run this week, according to the Lewiston-Auburn Sun Journal. Moninda Marube, now a student at the University of Maine at Farmington, was on an 18-mile training run early Wednesday when he heard rustling noises and spotted two black bears on the path ahead. He told the Sun Journal he had three choices: climb a nearby tree, run to the lake or sprint toward a vacant house he had just passed. Not knowing how to swim, Marube chose to run—while screaming—to the house's screened-in porch. He said the bears charged as soon as he turned his back, but he narrowly outpaced them and reached the house first. He then unlatched the door to the deck and slipped inside, only protected by a thin netting. The bears sniffed around but did not try to break through the mesh, he said, before they left him to go about his day. The encounter came on the Whitman Spring Road Trail in Auburn, Maine, where Marube has run many times before. “I’ve been running this road for four years. I’ve never thought of meeting a bear here,” the 38-year-old told the Sun Journal. (Emphasis added by my own racist self) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted July 7, 2017 Report Share Posted July 7, 2017 Can't bears swim? That probably wouldn't have saved him. Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted July 7, 2017 Report Share Posted July 7, 2017 1 hour ago, EnsignExpendable said: Can't bears swim? That probably wouldn't have saved him. I have no idea how fast bears can swim. I can do 100 meters in about 1.5 minutes. I have no idea if this is fast enough, but I sure as shit ain't gonna test it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted July 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2017 Bears can swim pretty good. And I'm not just talking polar bears. We have watched brown bears swim along one side of a fishing net in a ripping current and then swim back to shore along the other side, pulling fish out along the way. They're not fast but they endurance and power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Belesarius Posted July 22, 2017 Report Share Posted July 22, 2017 http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/man-punches-bear-in-the-nose-in-fight-for-survival-during-b-c-beachcombing-trip/wcm/182bb04e-6949-403d-b0f8-d2d681949714 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 I thought it was sharks that you were supposed to punch in the nose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted August 7, 2017 Report Share Posted August 7, 2017 Here is an interesting article on the effectiveness of bear spray. Quote Dave Smith, the author of a book on bear safety, said how well the spray works on bears might depend on so something as basic as whether “the bear is breathing in or breathing out” when the spray hits. Reactions to capsicum, that health study noted, are highly dose dependent. A charging grizzly is likely to get a big dose of capsicum. That is not necessarily the case for a predatory bear. Farley describes predatory bears as approaching with eyes squinting, mouths shut and nostrils narrowed. They come in like bears approaching beehives ready to suffer a bit to get the food they want. Their physical preparations would serve to minimize the dose of spray hitting the bear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted August 11, 2017 Report Share Posted August 11, 2017 @Belesarius has some explaining to do. EnsignExpendable and Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted August 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2017 BAAAEEEEYYYEEERRR!!! OOOOOooooohhh!!! Jeeps_Guns_Tanks, Xlucine, EnsignExpendable and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Scolopax Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 BAAEYYERRRR! ROOWWWW! Collimatrix, EnsignExpendable and Donward 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted October 8, 2017 Report Share Posted October 8, 2017 Donward 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted October 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2017 Mrs. The Captain is half Canuckistani. She appreciated the video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted October 8, 2017 Report Share Posted October 8, 2017 On 8/10/2017 at 10:21 PM, Sturgeon said: @Belesarius has some explaining to do. My wife didn't believe this until I showed her the picture... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted October 25, 2017 Report Share Posted October 25, 2017 "Disfigured bear saved after mystery illness" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted October 25, 2017 Report Share Posted October 25, 2017 The condition is common in people in Myanmar but has never been reported in bears. Crossing Myanmar off my list of holiday destinations, fuck that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted October 25, 2017 Report Share Posted October 25, 2017 I assume the mosquito-borne aspect of the disease probably doesn't help with that at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted November 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 BAAAEEEYYYEEERRR RIP Nearly 4 times as many bears killed in Anchorage in 2017 The vast preponderance are black bears as opposed to brown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted November 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2017 BAAAEEEYYYEEERRR!!! THAR SHE BLOOOOOOOOOOWS!!! 230 Polar Bears Feast on Whale Carcass https://www.livescience.com/60569-polar-bears-feast-on-whale-carcass.html And for some added bear on whale action, here is a picture of the most ambitious brown bear in the world. https://www.livescience.com/55043-bear-eats-whale.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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