Bears

C2A1 · June 21, 2018, 14:34

I respect bears! We are not always at the top of the food chain.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/wild...n-eagle-river/

Atla · June 21, 2018, 15:17

Bears.
Beets.
Battlestar Gallactica.

(I can't be the only one who thought of Dwight Schrute when I read the title...)

HelpiFALanCantGetUp · June 21, 2018, 15:29

but you have a better chance of being struck by lightning than to be attacked by a bear!

heres how statistics work. The chance of being killed by a bear while visiting Yellowstone National Park is 1 in 2.1 million. those odds shrink to 50/50 when you turn the corner on a bear.

hagar · June 21, 2018, 15:38

When you swim in the ocean, you have an almost zero chance of being stung by a bee. Meandering in a forest full of wildflowers, you don't have to worry about sharks.

Packing heat can protect from bears, but not from sharks or bees.

Statistics are meaningless..

TedMckay · June 21, 2018, 16:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by HelpiFALanCantGetUp

but you have a better chance of being struck by lightning than to be attacked by a bear!

heres how statistics work. The chance of being killed by a bear while visiting Yellowstone National Park is 1 in 2.1 million. those odds shrink to 50/50 when you turn the corner on a bear.

Not in my neck of the woods! That is why in Alaska you hunt deer with a .300 win mag or .338

C2A1 · June 21, 2018, 17:06

I've had my run ins. It is un-nerving when something that should run away from you stands on it's hind legs and growls at you. There is that moment when you want to run. Last time was a small sun bear. He didn't like my buddy and I. He stood his ground swaying back and forth. I thought he might be rabid ( one of those happened over on the eastern Az/NM line). Blast from an MP5 chanced his mind and he ran.
I know back in the late 70s I did not want to be on a seismic crew with a woman in Northern Canada.

KoKodog · June 21, 2018, 17:27

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Originally Posted by TedMckay

Not in my neck of the woods! That is why in Alaska you hunt deer with a .300 win mag or .338

and also why you go fishing w/ a 12 gauge pump loaded w/ alternating rounds of 00-Buck and slugs, you learn to fish w/ it slung on your shoulder, head on a swivel and eyes in the back of your head

**martin35** · June 21, 2018, 20:21

Many years ago in Alaska while returning from a offshore oil rig my Hughes chopper pilot decided to harass some grizzly bears fishing in a stream,,, we hovered maybe 10 feet above some very large and impressive animals,,, the pilot was smaller than me and I told him if anything happened he was going to be fed to the bears first,,, as all pilots should be.

wanneroo · June 21, 2018, 20:57

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Originally Posted by HelpiFALanCantGetUp

but you have a better chance of being struck by lightning than to be attacked by a bear!

All sounds great until you are the one that is there looking at the teeth with no solid wall or barrier between you and those teeth. I've been there, it's no fun.

MACV · June 21, 2018, 22:07

I wrestled a bear once. It was at the Marion County Fair. The bear won.

**Stoney** · June 22, 2018, 00:08

i thought this was DA BEARS

June 21, 2018, 14:34	#1
C2A1 Registered FALaholic #: 15514 Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 2,680	Bears I respect bears! We are not always at the top of the food chain. https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/wild...n-eagle-river/

June 21, 2018, 15:17	#2
Atla Registered Contributor FALaholic #: 79587 Join Date: Apr 2017 Location: Asheville, NC Posts: 327	Bears. Beets. Battlestar Gallactica. (I can't be the only one who thought of Dwight Schrute when I read the title...) __________________ *** Gunpowder and Ink

June 21, 2018, 22:07	#10
MACV Registered FALaholic #: 1167 Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: St Louis Posts: 2,992	I wrestled a bear once. It was at the Marion County Fair. The bear won. __________________ "I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." The Duke

June 22, 2018, 00:08	#11
Stoney Former 0311 Contributor Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 1205 Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Brush Prairie, WA USA Posts: 5,400	i thought this was DA BEARS __________________ Stoney “You can take a man out of the Corps, but you can’t take the Corps out of the man.” The Gunny RIP Has freedom been replaced with Free-Dumb. Illegitimi non carborundum A 1911A1 is like a Glock, except it's for grownups. AMERICA! Designed by geniuses. Now run by idiots. "The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen." Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!" Eleanor Roosevelt, 1945 Old Viking saying: Never be more then two steps from your weapon Flying is a hard way to earn an easy living.

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June 21, 2018, 15:29	#3
HelpiFALanCantGetUp Registered FALaholic #: 66011 Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 226	but you have a better chance of being struck by lightning than to be attacked by a bear! heres how statistics work. The chance of being killed by a bear while visiting Yellowstone National Park is 1 in 2.1 million. those odds shrink to 50/50 when you turn the corner on a bear.

June 21, 2018, 15:38	#4
hagar Registered FALaholic #: 228 Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Columbia, SC Posts: 9,573	When you swim in the ocean, you have an almost zero chance of being stung by a bee. Meandering in a forest full of wildflowers, you don't have to worry about sharks. Packing heat can protect from bears, but not from sharks or bees. Statistics are meaningless..

June 21, 2018, 17:06	#6
C2A1 Registered FALaholic #: 15514 Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 2,680	I've had my run ins. It is un-nerving when something that should run away from you stands on it's hind legs and growls at you. There is that moment when you want to run. Last time was a small sun bear. He didn't like my buddy and I. He stood his ground swaying back and forth. I thought he might be rabid ( one of those happened over on the eastern Az/NM line). Blast from an MP5 chanced his mind and he ran. I know back in the late 70s I did not want to be on a seismic crew with a woman in Northern Canada.

June 21, 2018, 20:21	#8
martin35 un muy viejo gringo Contributor Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 2939 Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Texas on the Brazos Posts: 25,928	Many years ago in Alaska while returning from a offshore oil rig my Hughes chopper pilot decided to harass some grizzly bears fishing in a stream,,, we hovered maybe 10 feet above some very large and impressive animals,,, the pilot was smaller than me and I told him if anything happened he was going to be fed to the bears first,,, as all pilots should be.