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Thread: Defense against bears with pistols 97% success rate 37 incidents by caliber

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    Quote Originally Posted by pmer View Post
    Why isn't anyone asking who is arming the bears? Probably Russians arming them Makarov's
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    I expect the bears to start carrying the weapons from the hikers and hunters they catch.

    But the turkeys are getting quite dangerous. They can gang up on you.




    Oh yeah, here is a good story, "Beware of the Armed bear in Siberia".
    http://siberiantimes.com/other/other...berian-region/
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    That reminds me of the admonition that when you are in bear country it is wise to carry a bell and pepper spray. Always be aware of what kind of beer you are dealing with by examining The bear scat. The scat of black Bears will have Remnants of seeds and berries. The scat of grizzly bears, and I reckon brown bears, too, will have remnants of bells and smell like pepper spray!

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    A young man in NE Georgia this past fall killed a 637 pound black bear--with a crossbow. Of course he wasn't facing the bear in a true hostile situation. I'm up in that area a lot on National Forest land poking around and I'm looking at converting one of my 1911s into a .460 Rowland shooting the Lee 255 grain RNFP at about 1250 fps. If 9 of those can't do the job I must have panicked and missed, or the he or she bear was very big and very PO'd. GF

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