Camping and Hiking in Bear Country - Early Risers Coffee Shop ® ("Where Friends enjoy Friends")

J_B · 08-21-2019, 09:49 AM

Okay you set out for your hike.. as you progress up the trail, somehow you got distracted and were watching your feet, you look up.

This is an aggressive bear, the ears are back, and the head is down and you have just seconds to either draw bear spray, or your firearm as you now back up and try and keep yourself from stumbling backwards.

glockensig · 08-21-2019, 10:46 AM

Yikes!!

rman · 08-21-2019, 11:24 AM

Obviously, the guy who took this picture is behind the hiker. He is the smart one. In all likelihood, the other hiker will get eaten by the bear, while the photographer makes a hasty retreat.

J_B · 08-21-2019, 11:35 AM

Sadly, many carry their bear spray in their backpacks where it does them no good. But for myself I do not have a faith in bear spray, and this is why I don't have faith in bear spray, this was just one instance with a black bear.

Black bear re-charges after being sprayed

rman · 08-21-2019, 07:35 PM

I'm a firm believer in lead spray J_B! Thankfully there are no bears in my woods.

08-21-2019, 09:49 AM	#1
J_B Extraordinary Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: NW Montana Age: 67 Posts: 13,171	Camping and Hiking in Bear Country Okay you set out for your hike.. as you progress up the trail, somehow you got distracted and were watching your feet, you look up. This is an aggressive bear, the ears are back, and the head is down and you have just seconds to either draw bear spray, or your firearm as you now back up and try and keep yourself from stumbling backwards. __________________ *"A man's got to know his limitations." Harry Callahan*

08-21-2019, 10:46 AM	#2
glockensig Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 1,951	Yikes!! __________________ Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle

08-21-2019, 11:24 AM	#3
rman Extraordinary Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Northeast Kansas Age: 80 Posts: 62,692	Obviously, the guy who took this picture is behind the hiker. He is the smart one. In all likelihood, the other hiker will get eaten by the bear, while the photographer makes a hasty retreat. __________________ I'm old enough to remember when mentally ill people were placed in hospitals, not in Congress or the White House.

08-21-2019, 11:35 AM	#4
J_B Extraordinary Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: NW Montana Age: 67 Posts: 13,171	Sadly, many carry their bear spray in their backpacks where it does them no good. But for myself I do not have a faith in bear spray, and this is why I don't have faith in bear spray, this was just one instance with a black bear. Black bear re-charges after being sprayed __________________ *"A man's got to know his limitations." Harry Callahan*

08-21-2019, 07:35 PM	#5
rman Extraordinary Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Northeast Kansas Age: 80 Posts: 62,692	I'm a firm believer in lead spray J_B! Thankfully there are no bears in my woods. __________________ I'm old enough to remember when mentally ill people were placed in hospitals, not in Congress or the White House.

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