Nanuq Posted June 22, 2018 Report Share Posted June 22, 2018 Hello from the land of the midnight sun! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike on a bike Posted June 22, 2018 Report Share Posted June 22, 2018 OK that's weird 12 midnight.................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capre Posted June 22, 2018 Report Share Posted June 22, 2018 Happy midsummer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ephry73 Posted June 22, 2018 Report Share Posted June 22, 2018 Nice!!! Thanks for sharing and stay safe Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuq Posted June 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2018 "Stay safe" Notice I'm up on my deck... it's just crazy with wild critters this year. We've got bears around the house, on the deck, in the garage, in my wood pile, in the road, we've got moose running around tearing up trees, 2 people just got chased off the mountain above me by brown bears, over in the next valley a guy was just killed by a brown bear, and the search party that found him was attacked and one of the searchers lost his leg. I usually don't think twice about going climbing but this summer has me feeling pretty cautious. So... wristies from the deck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt.watch.obsessive Posted June 23, 2018 Report Share Posted June 23, 2018 Wow. I assume a search party is armed up there. That's pretty scary. I've always been happy that I am just too far south for brown bear. On the other hand, I had a tarantula on my property, which really should not be able to survive this far north, and saw scorpion spray at my local Home Depot. I really hope that was a logistics error of some sort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike on a bike Posted June 23, 2018 Report Share Posted June 23, 2018 21 hours ago, Nanuq said: "Stay safe" Notice I'm up on my deck... it's just crazy with wild critters this year. We've got bears around the house, on the deck, in the garage, in my wood pile, in the road, we've got moose running around tearing up trees, 2 people just got chased off the mountain above me by brown bears, over in the next valley a guy was just killed by a brown bear, and the search party that found him was attacked and one of the searchers lost his leg. I usually don't think twice about going climbing but this summer has me feeling pretty cautious. So... wristies from the deck! As for what I know of gun laws in Alaska (basically none existent ) should be easy enough to pack a handgun w/ enough punch to take one down. This should do the trick: S&W model 29 w/ the magnum load not the special for your neighborhood , yes the "Dirty Harry" of Eastwood fame piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuq Posted June 24, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2018 Hah. The only reason I'd bring that along would be to shoot myself once the mauling started. My preference is a Mossberg 12ga with 3" magnum slugs and that's still not enough. Four or five of those will slow a brown bear down, but he's still going to have the last word in the discussion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike on a bike Posted June 24, 2018 Report Share Posted June 24, 2018 In that case just stay inside & watch TV! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuq Posted June 24, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2018 This plaque we placed for Patrick really says it all. He died doing what he loves best, seems like lots of us here do. Now if we could figure out how to make this puppy portable, we'd be at parity with the bears. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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