Survival "course" fail

[68Charger]

We have to like you.

Had a bear watch me once at Buffalo Creek. Probably was thinking "So how do I get the food OUT of that tin can (camper)" About 75 yards away. Just sat there for 5 min or so. I did not sleep well that night.

My "lesson" I learned was when I was 13- I carried the bear protection ashore -bear protection was Mossberg 12Ga with alternating 00Buck and slug... but I made a mistake (stupid teenager) and left it in the dingy I rowed ashore.. because I wanted to carry my .22 (Nylon 66) with me... and carrying 2 guns was just overkill, right?

I was about 100yds from the dingy, and I saw a good-sized Grizz come out of the bush about 100yds from me... he looked straight at me, and I figured he could close the distance to me faster than I could close the distance to the dingy... and I about shat myself at this point.

since all I had was the .22, I fired about 5-6 shots to land about 10-15ft in front of him, hoping the noise & the bullets landing on the rocks (beaches in Alaska are NOT sandy, they're either rocky or silt) would discourage him- it worked, thankfully... he huffed, then turned and walked back into the bush... and I NEVER was without bear protection IN HAND when ashore after that...

(no Alaskans use pepper spray that I'm aware of- there's an old joke about Grizz bear scat having bells in it and smelling like pepper spray)

[Ranger]

there's an old joke about Grizz bear scat having bells in it and smelling like pepper spray

And just who did the testing of this theory anyway ? Crazy Alaskans, seeing Russian from their house and playing with Bear poo.... Yikes.

[Mtn.man]

Fishing the Shoshone one year had a big boar grizz come out on the opposite shore, lucky the water was high and fast in May so he didn't come across but needless my concentration of the fish moved elsewhere..

[llostwolf]

[Danimal]

That is great