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Post by TRTerror on Jun 25, 2024 19:02:27 GMT -5
Until you are Tarzan...
Best carry that Ruger 10/22..Plus you'll get some great pictures of Bears running like the wind and grabbing their asses at the same time.
Maybe some High Speed spinning around shots too...Winning
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Post by johnnybandit on Jun 25, 2024 19:06:23 GMT -5
I’m not a huge fan of bears or even bear pics. Most pics are of a big dark blob with a bear head on it. They’re free to be wild animals and do have their place. We encounter them on our hunts and just let them go their way. I get a bigger thrill out of a bobcat or fox really close, and still appreciate their wildness. Keep this in mind. It will only take someone unwittingly getting between young cubs and the sow to provoke an attack. Yep they may be cute to some, but they’re still a wild animal that deserves that respect. Being wild they can be unpredictable. Yet That does not happen..... I spent quite a bit of time searching.... And I found nothing other than bluff charges.... When it comes to black bears.... Grizzlies are a a bit of a different story..... I invite to show me a real account of a black bear sow actually attacking a person....
That is because of several reasons: 1) The last thing a Black bear Sow with cubs wants is a direct Physical confrontation...
2) I regularly photograph sows and cubs... The chances of coming between a sow and her cubs would be hard to do..... I purposely do not try to get between a sow and cubs.. And frankly I have zero idea of how I would do that if I wanted to.
3) Sows will always lead their cubs away.... Because they want to avoid confrontations at all costs.... They cannot protect the cubs if they are fighting... And they cannot protect and feed the cubs if they get injured.... And if they die... The cubs die....
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Post by johnnybandit on Jun 25, 2024 19:29:40 GMT -5
Until you are Tarzan... Best carry that Ruger 10/22..Plus you'll get some great pictures of Bears running like the wind and grabbing their asses at the same time. Maybe some High Speed spinning around shots too...Winning LMAO you don't do that....... |
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Post by jmarkb on Jun 25, 2024 21:06:22 GMT -5
Of course they will... A bear can get more calories in a single visit to a trash can out on the street than they can get in two or three weeks in the woods...
Some of most entertaining bear moments I have had... Have been sitting with my boss (he recently retired) (he lives just south of Wekiva) sitting in his front yard, drinking beer...And watching the bears knock around the bear proof trash cans that his HOA required.... Those trash cans cost about 2 grand... And they were lucky to get a year out of them... It is hilarious and his grandkids laugh at me...
My cans stay in a 6'x4'x5' enclosure with 8' 6x6 the post cemented 3' into the ground. The sides and top are 5/4" deck boards. Heavy duty hinges and door locks through bolted in the 5/4" boards. There's been a fair number that have tried getting into it, and all have lost. I got one big old boy that comes around now and again and sits down in front of the enclosure and then after 10 minutes or so he gets up and leaves. I guess he's just coming down and reminiscing about the great stuff he got from those cans before the box got built. He always looks sad as he's leaving. |
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Post by bullfrog on Jun 25, 2024 21:33:04 GMT -5
I probably posted this video on the old forum. Here’s one whose nose I beat: I guess I hastily misinterpreted the “nose beating “. I thought I was going to get to see you slap one silly. LOL I enjoyed it anyway, good stuff. Yeah I’m wearing the HECS suit in that one, but I was also still experimenting with my super secret way to beat animal noses. So I wasn’t sure if its inability to smell me was more due to the suit or my technique. A lot of animals get weird about trying to smell me and can’t in the HECS suit, but they know something is there but they won’t spook at me. The HECS suit is a carbon fiber wrap. I am convinced in deadens my presence to animals. But I doubt it works for the reason advertised. Its not a faraday cage by any measure I can test it. I think it traps and contains heat and maybe scent. Carbon scent suits like Scentlok can’t work as advertised either because the charcoal doesn’t get hot enough in a drier to reactivate. But people swear by them like I swear by the HECS suit. The active material for both is pretty much the same. Carbon. There may be something to covering yourself in carbon fiber that minimizes your presence. I just realized I can test my HECS suit with my thermal scope to see how it manages heat. |
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Post by mariah8 on Jul 10, 2024 19:09:53 GMT -5
And to be clear, the new law only allows you to kill a bear that’s threatening your life, your pet’s lives, or your physical home. It doesn’t let you shoot a bear because its on your property raiding your garbage. Which was basically already the law under the FWC regulations, except last time I read it livestock wasn’t included.
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Post by slough on Jul 11, 2024 7:44:25 GMT -5
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Post by nikonoclast on Jul 11, 2024 8:51:20 GMT -5
This new video explains a study of 160+ bear attacks since 2018.
The primarily focus is using handguns as bear defense.
It's very interesting, and not only for Florida.
Bears are adaptable, and highly mobile.
They should be avoiding humans.
( and vice versa )
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2024 9:07:33 GMT -5
Nice information
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