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Doing the Bear Minimum

A 71-year-old woman who was found dead inside her Sierra County home last November had been mauled by a black bear… [More]

“She’d feed her cats on the front porch and had trash on the property”?

“Bears were constantly trying to get in through broken windows and that her mother had physically hit one to keep it from entering her residence”?

I take it she didn’t have a gun?

[Via Michael G]

When Seconds Count

Frostback “Only Ones” are hours away. [More]

That’s the Old Pepper!

A fully-discharged bottle of bear spray was discovered at the scene. The bear was apparently unimpressed! [More]

As previously noted:

The problem is, U.S. Geological Survey researcher Tom Smith has documented cases where pepper spray has proven to be an attractant, and observed “bears on their backs, paws skyward, vigorously rubbing their heads and back in the red pepper-sprayed gravel.”

Snuffles comes to mind.

The Great Equalizer

Man kills grizzly in self-defense surprise encounter in Tom Miner Basin [More]

There’s a lesson in there about individuals triumphing over powerful aggressors that some don’t want getting out.

[Via bondmen]

Bear Necessities

If you want them to be “more afraid of you than you are of them,” shooting them is a good approach. [More]

And it’s remarkably effective against all kinds of predators.

[Via Michael G]

Don’t Call Him ‘Lucky’

Alaska Outfitter Defends Fishermen from Raging Grizzly with 9mm Pistol [More]

There’s a man who knows how to keep his head.

That said, the area demands something that packs more punch, and he should know that better than anyone.

[Via RKB]

Spicing Things Up

We could even encourage worried homeowners to buy bear spray for protection. I backpack, and it’s well known that bear spray is more effective against a charging grizzly than a handgun. Probably also more effective against a home invader. Think of it as harm reduction. [More]

That ought to go real well indoors.

As for outdoors, I’m thinking the Tueller drill shows a human can traverse 21 feet in a second-and-a-half and I’m guessing how long an 800 Lb. bear at 35mph would take and how close it actually has to get to be assured of a face-full, and wondering if that would be enough, and then remembering how some have been seen rolling around in pepper spray, and noting rangers carry guns, and then what he’d do against an armed home assailant, and… what the hell. It’s not like this chronic idiot is worth debating.

[Via WiscoDave]

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