Why I always carry my bear spray with me.

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Took this picture today, while quadding in the alpine. For the benefit of you eastern people that may not recognize it for what it is, I will explain it. Very few hours before the picture was taken a grizzly bear was digging roots, so he could have his breakfast! They also dig around rocks to get ground squirrels, and such, but this wasn't the case here.
I felt safe with my bear spray, because it has a 21 inch tube, allowing one to point directly to the target. It sprays material that is .303 of and inch across and comes out the tube 215 grains at a time.
 
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Holy ####!

Oh My god!

you saw grizz sign? were you scared? did you poop your pants? I'm so glad your safe and sound at your computer now!!!

I also carry bear spray. 350gr canister of 100% lead-capsicum. but then again I regularly get much closer to them then scratch marks :p


don;t you know a .303 can't kill anything? gunnuts says so! you need something that says WSM or RUM behind a large number thingy..... :)
 
Amphibious said:
Holy s**t!

Oh My god!

you saw grizz sign? were you scared? did you poop your pants? I'm so glad your safe and sound at your computer now!!!

I also carry bear spray. 350gr canister of 100% lead-capsicum. but then again I regularly get much closer to them then scratch marks :p


don;t you know a .303 can't kill anything? gunnuts says so! you need something that says WSM or RUM behind a large number thingy..... :)
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:popCorn: LOL

My backyard looks like that so I must get beer spray,I thought it was beer poo.
 
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A few years ago I was on top of a small ridge.

We had tied up the horses and made a quick camp. prior to climbing the ridge.

We looked down, and there, not more than 300 metres form camp, a MASSIVE and I mean MASSIVE grizzly popped up, and started excavating some dirt, I htink trying to get a marmot.

Now, marmots must taste like candy to grizz, because that grizz moved dirt, boulders and bigger boulders so fast you'd thtink it was a backhoe.

All of a sudden, he popped his had up, sniffed (I think he sniffed the horses) and took off. 20 foot pine trees were rocking back and forth from his getaway...

We went there the next day, and I have pics of me squatting in the excavation hole. Most people know I'm not a small fellow, and I am dwarfed by the hole he dug in minutes..You could park a compact car in it!:p

PS My bear spray was .284 diameter 160gr Nosler Partitions..:D
 
I was on a mountain bike ride with a couple of friends on Soul Brother (a trail that headed north out of Canmore, its been destroyed to put in Silver Springs Golf Course) a few years back and there were a bunch of helicopters buzzing about looking for something I guessed. The next week a trail runner was killed by a 99 kg. Griz on the same trail. Turns out the helicopters that we saw were going about the business of locating said Griz and relocating it a few hundred klicks away. He came back and killed the trail runner on the same trail they picked it up from the first time... Now I am seriously thinking a nice little pump action entry gun loaded with 3" Magnum slugs would be a nice addition to my riding kit...
 
Maple Leaf Pilgrim said:
I was on a mountain bike ride with a couple of friends on Soul Brother (a trail that headed north out of Canmore, its been destroyed to put in Silver Springs Golf Course) a few years back and there were a bunch of helicopters buzzing about looking for something I guessed. The next week a trail runner was killed by a 99 kg. Griz on the same trail. Turns out the helicopters that we saw were going about the business of locating said Griz and relocating it a few hundred klicks away. He came back and killed the trail runner on the same trail they picked it up from the first time... Now I am seriously thinking a nice little pump action entry gun loaded with 3" Magnum slugs would be a nice addition to my riding kit...
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That bear was moved to Carrot Creek in Banff which is about 12 Km's away, not a few hundred. The outcome probably would have been much different if it was moved a couple of hundred km's away.

But the 90-kilogram, four-year-old grizzly managed to drag Dube from the tree. The 35-year-old wife and mother of one young daughter was mauled to death.

Fish and wildlife officers later shot and killed the bear.

The bear, known to officials as No. 99, recently drew attention when it approached a Canmore woman. Following that encounter, the bear was relocated to the Carrot Creek area ear Banff National Park.
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I watched a beautifull silverback griz run flat out across almost 200m of really bad tussocks (we used to call them *iggerheads but that is no longer acceptable) on the tundra. I would have been slowed to a slow walk by the uneven surface, the bear didn't even slow down. It was very scary to see how powerful he was.
 
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We went there the next day, and I have pics of me squatting in the excavation hole. Most people know I'm not a small fellow, and I am dwarfed by the hole he dug in minutes..You could park a compact car in it!

Yes, I have seen those huge holes on the mountain sides dug by the grizzlies, also. But, a "whistler," (hoary marmot) is a mighty juicy snack for a grizzly bear. Dr. Ian McTaggart Cowan, in his book, The Mamals of BC, refers to the whistler as being the largest of the marmots, with weights going to 30 pounds! Unfortunately, there seems to be very few hoary mormots now, compared to what there once was.
Many years ago on a hunt in the Bedaux Pass area of north eastern BC, we saw many dozens of whistlers. If we very carefully inched our head over a ridge in the alpine, we sometimes saw as many as six whistlers in sight. But they are very wary, and smart. As soon as one sees anything move, he gives his shrill whistle, and every whistler in sight immediately dives in his hole. And the whistlers that can hear him, gives there own whistle, and so on down the line. I have surprised one, then heard whistles until they faded out, over the alpine. Wilderness nature at its best. This was good grizzly country, so the marmots that were smart, survived. Some of them were absolutely huge.
Grizzlies will dig out the small Richardson ground squirrels, (Gophers) but of course they prefer the big guys. You wouldn't think they would get enough calories from a gopher to make up for the ones lost in digging him out!
 
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My buddy was witching a piece of property for an owner and heard a noise behind him. He turned to find a small black bear less than five feet away. He rapped it a good one on the snout with his witching stick and the bear ran off and climbed a tree where the bear then proceeded to rub it's nose. He phoned me to let me know his location just in case something went south big time. He phone later and I asked if he was phoning from inside a bear and he said that he was phoning to let me know he was back at his truck.
 
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Calum said:
I would rather have a firearm with me then the spray. :D
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I guess I didn't spell it out enough, but I thought anyone on these threads would figure out that something with a 21 inch "tube", that expelled something .303 inch across, 215 grains at a time, would figure out that I had a 21 inched barreled, 303 British rifle, with 215 grain bullets. Sorry for not explaining it.
 
Amphibious said:
Holy s**t!

Oh My god!

you saw grizz sign? were you scared? did you poop your pants? I'm so glad your safe and sound at your computer now!!!

I also carry bear spray. 350gr canister of 100% lead-capsicum. but then again I regularly get much closer to them then scratch marks :p


don;t you know a .303 can't kill anything? gunnuts says so! you need something that says WSM or RUM behind a large number thingy..... :)
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:runaway: I pooped my pants just reading the story... I am thinking he is a brave lad to be out in the mountians with the dangerous animals and such! Never mind the fact that he doesn't even have a Short Mag... :eek:
 
Here's how I carry pepper spray when I'm working in the bush.

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H4831 said:
I guess I didn't spell it out enough, but I thought anyone on these threads would figure out that something with a 21 inch "tube", that expelled something .303 inch across, 215 grains at a time, would figure out that I had a 21 inched barreled, 303 British rifle, with 215 grain bullets. Sorry for not explaining it.
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acualy its probably .311 or .312 inch across :p
 
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