would you camp any differently if there were occasional dangerous animals like that around? i mean obviously i guess you'd carry a gun, would you need traps or something?
animals are afraid of humans unless they are starving just before winter, it not worth the risk to attack us for them when any injury can be a death sentence because they cant catch food anymore
>obviously i guess you'd carry a gun
Guns are a great defense against people but are less effective than bear spray against bears.
The only “dangerous” animals I come across are feral hogs, bears, venomous snakes, and alligators. I saw a badger once, but it was on the other side of a lake. And I’ve seen goats and elk, which can be ornery but they were pretty tame because they lived in national park campgrounds.
>Guns are a great defense against people but are less effective than bear spray against bears.
Found the larper.
You know what else is effective against bears? Loud unknown sounds. You know what makes loud sounds? Guns. You know what a gun can also do? Kill a bear.
Stay strapped or get clapped.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I’m scared so I take a gun
Literal coward
2 years ago
Anonymous
A gun is the modern day sword. I guess all the warriors of old that went into the woods with axe and sword in hand were cowards according to your logic.
Sad manlet energy coming from you friend.
You're never gonna make it. let your weak seed die with you, please, for the good of mankind.
You know what else is effective against bears? Loud unknown sounds. You know what makes loud sounds? Guns. You know what a gun can also do? Kill a bear.
Stay strapped or get clapped. >>I’m scared so I take a gun >Literal coward
Humans have carried weapons in the wild since we learned to use tools. The same types of threats that existed then, still exist. I may not carry a gun, but I'm not knocking someone for being more prepared than I am.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>The same types of threats that existed then, still exist.
Most dangerous predators that actually pose a threat in the US were wiped out generations ago and bears don’t view people as prey. So no, the same threats don’t exist.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>calling the untold billions of brave men who carried weapons with them cowards
Narcissistic personally disorder spotted
2 years ago
Anonymous
This guy was rightfully scared of native savages. You’re scared of a non-existent threat.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>he doesn't know
2 years ago
Anonymous
>a bear is a non-existent threat
Say that again when a bear is nibbling on your legs, dumbass.
I have some perimetre alarms made from old salvaged smoke grenade heads. They use blank cartridges and have fishing line as the tripwire. I set up them around my camp perimetre when I hike alone. I know it is silly, but it lets me sleep my nights in peace.
>do you go camping alone
yes. its the only kind of camping I do (no frens) >have you ever been in danger when camping alone?
only once out of ~75-100 trips. basically I neglected to use my map and got lost then ran out of water and daylight and had to camp on the trail for the night.
bears are basically big dumb racoons. mountain lions are rare and mostly just a threat to animals/small children
>do you go camping alone
I sometimes do, but not very often. I'm not really afraid of animals as brown bears are the only ones around that could be a threat and they are not very dangerous. I sometimes worry about people with bad intentions, but those don't often go up in the mountains. I have heard of people that got robbed while sleeping in a tent. The story is that at night they got woken up and asked for their wallets and threatened with an axe if they tried to get out of the tent.
>do you go camping alone
Yes, i also live in the middle of nowhere alone >have you ever been in danger when camping
Got treed by a bull moose once but thats about it. I carry a gun more for crackheads and weirdos than wildlife.
I went camping on my own for the first time last weekend and while it was really fun I'm paranoid as frick and I kept waking up in the night thinking there was someone right outside my tent.
The way the tent flapped in the wind sounded exactly like someone trying and failing to sneak up on me and the way the wind pulled at the flap and the velcro on it kind of sounded like some animal sniffing/nibbling at the fabric right beside my head
So I guess I was in danger of sleep deprivation
I think I'm going to bring a bigger knife the next time I'm out on my own though
German wildcamper anon reporting in - I exclusively go hiking and camping alone because I have no dudes who would join me… and there isn’t really anything to fear in the German woods. My biggest fear is some normiert spotting me with my gun (yes I’m German and have one), calling the coppers or engaging me directly and I become the next Yves Rausch
I always camp alone. Once I find a nice tucked in spot surrounded by vegetation I feel at ease and comfortable. I don't carry weapons. I accept the possibility of death every time I put the pack on and get walking. The only real danger is sleeping under a rotten tree
yes and yes.
camping alone is always latent danger.
>be me >camping alone with my doggo in the rockies >eat dinner, sun goes down, sit at fire until bedtime >decide to walk down to lake to rinse off dishes >on the way back the 100m walk, see a shape on the trail ahead of me in the darkness >stop and squint >it's a big white/grey timber wolf >start asking it out loud "what are you doing buddy?" >it trots off trail into the bush >book it back to my camp site to find doggo OK >go to bed
If there was one there was 20 others in the bushes. Could have been much nastier.
Almost no people are killed by animals in North America.
bears ~3/year
mountain lions ~0.3/year
wolves ~0.1/year (almost exclusively Canada and Alaska)
lightning strikes ~27/year
You should be 10-100x more worried about lightning strikes than animal attacks, and lightning is a pretty small risk.
yes
no
there's no large animals here except mountain lions and black bears, and neither of those will really frick with you as long as you leave their kids alone
i've come face to face with mountain lions on the trail a couple times and been stalked by them many times, but generally they are just curious about what the frick this moron is doing in their territory and will never actually attack a healthy adult human except in exceptional circumstances like starvation or protecting their kids
black bears are oversized raccoons, just don't frick with them and they won't frick with you
really the most dangerous things here are just the fricking ticks and heatstroke in the summer
I am the danger
but arent u afraid a bear or mountain lion will try to eat u while u sleep?
don't have those here
would you camp any differently if there were occasional dangerous animals like that around? i mean obviously i guess you'd carry a gun, would you need traps or something?
animals are afraid of humans unless they are starving just before winter, it not worth the risk to attack us for them when any injury can be a death sentence because they cant catch food anymore
ok i see, ty
>obviously i guess you'd carry a gun
Guns are a great defense against people but are less effective than bear spray against bears.
The only “dangerous” animals I come across are feral hogs, bears, venomous snakes, and alligators. I saw a badger once, but it was on the other side of a lake. And I’ve seen goats and elk, which can be ornery but they were pretty tame because they lived in national park campgrounds.
I much rather use my .308 rifle if I encountered a bear then bear spray. But I've never encountered one either so there's that.
Yeah there aren’t any bears at the range. Go back to /k/z
my favorite range is in a state forest so actually there are
>Guns are a great defense against people but are less effective than bear spray against bears.
Found the larper.
You know what else is effective against bears? Loud unknown sounds. You know what makes loud sounds? Guns. You know what a gun can also do? Kill a bear.
Stay strapped or get clapped.
>I’m scared so I take a gun
Literal coward
A gun is the modern day sword. I guess all the warriors of old that went into the woods with axe and sword in hand were cowards according to your logic.
Sad manlet energy coming from you friend.
You're never gonna make it. let your weak seed die with you, please, for the good of mankind.
>
Found the larper.
You know what else is effective against bears? Loud unknown sounds. You know what makes loud sounds? Guns. You know what a gun can also do? Kill a bear.
Stay strapped or get clapped.
>>I’m scared so I take a gun
>Literal coward
Humans have carried weapons in the wild since we learned to use tools. The same types of threats that existed then, still exist. I may not carry a gun, but I'm not knocking someone for being more prepared than I am.
>The same types of threats that existed then, still exist.
Most dangerous predators that actually pose a threat in the US were wiped out generations ago and bears don’t view people as prey. So no, the same threats don’t exist.
>calling the untold billions of brave men who carried weapons with them cowards
Narcissistic personally disorder spotted
This guy was rightfully scared of native savages. You’re scared of a non-existent threat.
>he doesn't know
>a bear is a non-existent threat
Say that again when a bear is nibbling on your legs, dumbass.
>Guns are a great defense against people but are less effective than bear spray against bears.
Actual moron
You can kill a bear with a .22 if you land enough good shots.
>any book is a childrens book if the kid can read
I have some perimetre alarms made from old salvaged smoke grenade heads. They use blank cartridges and have fishing line as the tripwire. I set up them around my camp perimetre when I hike alone. I know it is silly, but it lets me sleep my nights in peace.
>do you go camping alone
yes. its the only kind of camping I do (no frens)
>have you ever been in danger when camping alone?
only once out of ~75-100 trips. basically I neglected to use my map and got lost then ran out of water and daylight and had to camp on the trail for the night.
bears are basically big dumb racoons. mountain lions are rare and mostly just a threat to animals/small children
Pack heat, an SKS or any decent pump action should do fine.
i am very pleased you didn´t call it by the trendy word solo camping
yes i mostly do so and no i haven´t
>do you go camping alone
I sometimes do, but not very often. I'm not really afraid of animals as brown bears are the only ones around that could be a threat and they are not very dangerous. I sometimes worry about people with bad intentions, but those don't often go up in the mountains. I have heard of people that got robbed while sleeping in a tent. The story is that at night they got woken up and asked for their wallets and threatened with an axe if they tried to get out of the tent.
I almost exclusively camp alone. Haven't been in danger yet, but I stay alert all the time.
So many wimps on here, take a few reasonable precautions for dangers you are likely to encounter and then stop worrying, you're slowly dying anyway.
A good respect of nature is good. But this level of constant fear is autistic and truly demonstrates the mentality of city slickers.
>do you go camping alone
Yes, i also live in the middle of nowhere alone
>have you ever been in danger when camping
Got treed by a bull moose once but thats about it. I carry a gun more for crackheads and weirdos than wildlife.
I sleep naked and hike with a Romanian with a 100 round drum. I am the danger, and a alcoholic
yea I almost died of boredom lmao but really...
I went camping on my own for the first time last weekend and while it was really fun I'm paranoid as frick and I kept waking up in the night thinking there was someone right outside my tent.
The way the tent flapped in the wind sounded exactly like someone trying and failing to sneak up on me and the way the wind pulled at the flap and the velcro on it kind of sounded like some animal sniffing/nibbling at the fabric right beside my head
So I guess I was in danger of sleep deprivation
I think I'm going to bring a bigger knife the next time I'm out on my own though
German wildcamper anon reporting in - I exclusively go hiking and camping alone because I have no dudes who would join me… and there isn’t really anything to fear in the German woods. My biggest fear is some normiert spotting me with my gun (yes I’m German and have one), calling the coppers or engaging me directly and I become the next Yves Rausch
I always camp alone. Once I find a nice tucked in spot surrounded by vegetation I feel at ease and comfortable. I don't carry weapons. I accept the possibility of death every time I put the pack on and get walking. The only real danger is sleeping under a rotten tree
yes and yes.
camping alone is always latent danger.
>be me
>camping alone with my doggo in the rockies
>eat dinner, sun goes down, sit at fire until bedtime
>decide to walk down to lake to rinse off dishes
>on the way back the 100m walk, see a shape on the trail ahead of me in the darkness
>stop and squint
>it's a big white/grey timber wolf
>start asking it out loud "what are you doing buddy?"
>it trots off trail into the bush
>book it back to my camp site to find doggo OK
>go to bed
If there was one there was 20 others in the bushes. Could have been much nastier.
lone wolves are a thing
Almost no people are killed by animals in North America.
bears ~3/year
mountain lions ~0.3/year
wolves ~0.1/year (almost exclusively Canada and Alaska)
lightning strikes ~27/year
You should be 10-100x more worried about lightning strikes than animal attacks, and lightning is a pretty small risk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_bear_attacks_in_North_America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_cougar_attacks_in_North_America
https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-odds
How many of the people who go missing are animal attacks where they don't find a body?
yes
no
there's no large animals here except mountain lions and black bears, and neither of those will really frick with you as long as you leave their kids alone
i've come face to face with mountain lions on the trail a couple times and been stalked by them many times, but generally they are just curious about what the frick this moron is doing in their territory and will never actually attack a healthy adult human except in exceptional circumstances like starvation or protecting their kids
black bears are oversized raccoons, just don't frick with them and they won't frick with you
really the most dangerous things here are just the fricking ticks and heatstroke in the summer