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Golf1echo · 06-17-2017, 10:06

I appreciate and enjoyed the posts thank you. That explains the price points for the different brands. Mark* that is how I felt when I had my 9mm but no hiking partner and never a lawyer when you need one

So there are at least 3 bears in the canyon, this was Papa bear, he is not the largest. I had a nice walk at sunset and decided to take another when I got back to the cabin. I ran into this bear about 75' away retracing my path so I either coincidentally bisected his path or he had been following me from the first hike...cameras already show the mountain lions have followed people there. Mama bear is a golden, she is the largest, and lives higher up, I thought she was an elk wallowing in the creek when I first saw her but backed off when I realized she was a big bear and she backed off too. Likely Papa bear thought it was deer as they move just before dark.

While I don't intend to shoot bear I just don't want to wrestle one either. In the original post the guy had his revolver in a simple black pouch on the chest, one might think he had a radio or wind breaker in it and I think that would be good when visitors and children come, less alarming and hopefully never need it and they would never know.

I have an older book called " Hunting Stories" It was copy marked 1898 IIRC, the author was a professor of natural history from Kansas State University and these were his stories of collecting species ( full families) to preserve and collect for KSU. He went all over North America but one trip to New Mexico he mentioned he was in the range of the grizzly bear...both intriguing and scary to imagine so far South.....I'll look for the bells and smell for the pepper in those scats from now on.
Thank you, appreciated.
* You can always tell a graduate of the Dick Cheney school of hunting

Edit: Article posted a few days after post- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...en-flukes.html

06-17-2017, 10:06	#12
Golf1echo Area Commander Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Western Carolina in the rainforest,4000' along the Eastern Cont. Div. Posts: 1,427	I appreciate and enjoyed the posts thank you. That explains the price points for the different brands. Mark* that is how I felt when I had my 9mm but no hiking partner and never a lawyer when you need one So there are at least 3 bears in the canyon, this was Papa bear, he is not the largest. I had a nice walk at sunset and decided to take another when I got back to the cabin. I ran into this bear about 75' away retracing my path so I either coincidentally bisected his path or he had been following me from the first hike...cameras already show the mountain lions have followed people there. Mama bear is a golden, she is the largest, and lives higher up, I thought she was an elk wallowing in the creek when I first saw her but backed off when I realized she was a big bear and she backed off too. Likely Papa bear thought it was deer as they move just before dark. While I don't intend to shoot bear I just don't want to wrestle one either. In the original post the guy had his revolver in a simple black pouch on the chest, one might think he had a radio or wind breaker in it and I think that would be good when visitors and children come, less alarming and hopefully never need it and they would never know. I have an older book called " Hunting Stories" It was copy marked 1898 IIRC, the author was a professor of natural history from Kansas State University and these were his stories of collecting species ( full families) to preserve and collect for KSU. He went all over North America but one trip to New Mexico he mentioned he was in the range of the grizzly bear...both intriguing and scary to imagine so far South.....I'll look for the bells and smell for the pepper in those scats from now on. Thank you, appreciated. * You can always tell a graduate of the Dick Cheney school of hunting Edit: Article posted a few days after post- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...en-flukes.html __________________ "It is because they have so much to give and give it so lavishly...that men love the mountains and go back to them again and again." Sir Francis Younghusband Essayons By Dand "In the school of the wilds,there is no graduation day"Horace Kephart Last edited by Golf1echo; 06-21-2017 at 07:01.
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