>better string up my food in a big can overnight so bears don't get it
>better practice lying down and playing dead so bears don't eat me
>better try not to disturb the bears around here with any strong smells
How cucked can Americans (abearicucks) be? If there were bears in my country, I wouldn't let them affect my way of living in any way. I would simply carry on as normal and let these four-legged clowns adapt to me
Terrible bait thread, do better
>I let oversized honey-eating dogs dictate my life
acktshually they are after the larvae they dont really care about the honey unless they are starving.
The sad thing is, it's not bait.
Also, I’m trans, so I’m not afraid to have an open bleeding gash
Wow OP how progressive
How often do you dilate?
Twice a day, but I’m still only at 1cm diameter
Are you the same one that posts weird shit on the gay board and then makes spam posts on PrepHole?
Sounds like a European that doesn't understand real rugged wilderness.
foreigner = homosexual
>How cucked can Americans (abearicucks) be? If there were bears in my country, I wouldn't let them affect my way of living in any way. I would simply carry on as normal and let these four-legged clowns adapt to me
lol
lmao even
This is accurate in one part of the world, probably not in others.
I do agree the northern europe bears are civilized enough nobody need to do all this and still won't get jumped at any time of day or night by one of us.
In americas though even bears are part of the mutted up by violent dumbo gun culture, so don't think you know it all.
*Glock 20 has entered the chat*
Seriously though, 99% of people who freak the frick out over bears live in the city. Just be aware of your surroundings and carry bear spray and/or a pistol in a large caliber (10MM, 357mag, 44mag, etc). Anybody who thinks otherwise needs to stop watching so much Hollywood.
I’m not an insecure fatass who needs a gun to feel manly on his 3 mile day hike, so I think I’ll stick with the lighter weight and statistically more effective option for bear deterrence
>This guy is too weak to carry a 5 pound pistol
I carry it for people, not bears, since spray is more effective.
I don’t do little three mile hikes outside of some suburb like you, I hike where I won’t see a person for days at a time, so there is simply no need for me to bring a less efficient option for my needs while hiking.
I’ll leave it in the truck to carry while I pass through the shithole you live in
Why are you so afraid of other people? Schizo? Autism?
I’ve been around blacks enough to know not to relax
>blacks
Bears though, right? Right???
Spray isn't more effective. Everyone cites the same study claiming 97% bear spray effectiveness without actually reading it. The incidents in that study mostly consisted of juvenile black bears poking around garbage and leaving once sprayed. Every encounter like that was deemed a "successful use of bear spray" but that's not the kind of situation where someone would use a gun to defend themselves from a bear. Only THREE incidents in the study involved actual bear charges. In the first incident the bear stopped charging when sprayed. In the second incident the bear went through the spray and injured the person before running off. In the third incident the bear severely mauled the person and wasn't at all deterred by the spray. Based on that tiny sample bear spray has a 1/3 chance of making a charging bear decide to leave without hurting you. In contrast the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says that approximately 50% of people who defend themselves against grizzly bears with firearms are injured during the encounter. If you want to bully a bear that you probably could have scared away just by shouting and waving your arms pepper spray is fine. If the bear is actually trying to harm you (possibly because its offspring is nearby) guns are better.
You can’t just throw out every case involving “juvenile bears poking around garbage” just because you feel like it.
That’s very similar to what the most likely bear encounter someone will have when camping; bear comes around looking for food.
Sorry, but I’m not gonna take you seriously.
Pic rel is you
>I’m gonna cherry-pick and disregard all the data involving the most likely scenarios.
>see, now the data fits my preconceived notions!
I feel sad for you that your sense of masculinity is this wrapped up in carrying a gun that you are willing to distort reality to fit your bias
>The incidents in that study mostly consisted of juvenile black bears poking around garbage and leaving once sprayed
What makes you think this doesn't apply to cases where guns were effective too? What a pointless post.
> The incidents in that study mostly consisted of juvenile black bears poking around garbage
Not sure what study you are referring to but sounds like bullshit. This study 74% of the incidents involved brown bears…and spray was 92% effective. There is bigger margin of error with spray because you dont have to be a crack shot under duress with spray.
https://bearwise.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/efficacy-of-bear-spray-smith-et-al.-2010.pdf
This thread has to be bait. I refuse to believe it’s not bait.
Both correct. Bear spray will almost always be the best deterrent to use. Also, pro tip from someone who works around coastal brown bears, flapping the rain cover for you pack or a plastic bag in the air will make bears turn and run pretty much without fail. It’s pretty funny how much they freak the frick out from this. That’s how I got pic related to go away. The sound that Hand held marine flares make also makes them run like little house cats.
Bear spray is great as a second to last line of defense. Ideally you should not be alone in bear country and ideally you’ll have one person responsible for the gun (while also carrying a can of spray) while the other is responsible for the initial spraying of the bear. My job requires that we carry a 12 gauge with slugs but that is not practical for anyone recreating. A larger caliber pistol will do the trick but it should never be your first line of defense. Proper food management is key as is being sure not to surprise any bears. Talking loudly with your crew, yelling “Hey bear!” Or, unironically playing music on a speaker while moving through brush are the way to go. Don’t do the last one unless you are way the frick out there and not near other hikers though. Bear bells are too close in frequency to bird calls and they don’t alert bears. Don’t bother with them.
The annon saying that fire arm carriers are just larpers is dumb. Especially if we’re talking the lower 48 where 2 legged critters are your biggest threat. I’m not a gun nut by any means but I will never understand why anyone would camp in places without cell service and off the beaten path without a means to defend themselves in 2023 America where there are more guns than people. It doesn’t have to be on your hip while hiking. But having one around camp is great for piece of mind.
I'm convinced it's either one troll who gets off from ruining a board, the mods trying to artificially make the board more active, or literal AI algorithms making these posts.
>If there were bears in my country
>Treat bear like minor pest
>"It's just a silly bear"
>Get held down by 700lb bear
>Eaten alive for 3 hours and 56 excruciating minutes, before being left for dead
>Body has no eyes or penis/testicles left, cannot be identified for weeks
Silly bears should just push off.
not using your food to lure more food to you.
ngmi
It is good to have a healthy fear of bears. Best to avoid situations like this happening.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2026914/amp/Mum-bear-eating--Final-phone-calls-woman-19-eaten-alive-brown-bear-cubs.html
Do Europeans not have to protect their food from small rodents and insects when they go out?
Non sequitur. Europeans don’t actually go outside.
OP’s post is another piece of evidence that no one outside of North America actually goes outside.
I live in the South. And while I only run into bears in the Smokies, I still hang my food every time to protect it from smaller pests. The threat from things like squirrels and field mice is just as great in Europe as it is in the US. Yet homosexual OP thinks hanging food is only for bear protection.
It’s not bears you have to worry about, at least not in the Northwest Territories. It’s Ravens/Crows or whatever the frick they are. They will watch and learn how you open and close your food containers during the day, and then at night when you sleep they will take everything. LOCK your shit up or the birds will get to it.
They have large circus’s in the Grand Canyon NP that do the same thing, and they make a sound like they’re laughing. It’s pretty funny watching them raid deserted campsites in the middle of the day, opening ice chests and flying off with entire bags of potato chips when someone gets too close.
“Corvids” is a word but autocorrect defaults to the lowest common denominator plebeian vocabulary, so frick me, right?