That may be true, but humans have managed to kill grizzlies (and much larger animals) with spears for far longer than chainsaws (or chains, or saws) have been around.
I’d probably rather have the .45, because there’s a decent chance that just firing it will scare the bear away. That’s about all it would be good for, though.
It would work okay if the bear was coming at you with a banana, though. That’s a standard defense against a banana-wielding opponent. Especially if you haven’t prepared the 2-ton weight to drop on him.
However, you would be in big trouble if the bear came at you with a pointed stick.
Or a .45!
Then, just offer him a banana, and put on a sad face.
Or, better still, bring along a friend who doesn’t run as fast as you.
And spray your friend with Bear Spray to slow him down even more.
Well some of us like to do our bear hunting in Home Depot.
I knew a guy who claimed he hunted kodiaks with a small group of hunters using 8’ spears. I understand each of them took along a .45 just in case.
I’m guessing the group was even smaller, at the end of the hunt.
All I can say is at least he returned. Sans bear. Perhaps it’s just as well.
I’d slip on the banana peel.
Divert his attention by making him laugh—genius!
Wow, there really is a tv show about everything.
Oh yeah, money goes on the bear. Even if it didn’t snort a bunch of cocaine.
I don’t know about that. The Left Behind guy said the banana was God’s perfect creation. Kinda hard to top that.
Sidetrack, but given the way the thread is going - what was his reasoning?
Considering what wild bananas look like compared to domesticated ones, I’d say bananas are a marvelous feat of human engineering.
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I’ll let you see for yourself. Video is bad quality, just over a minute long. Unassailable logic.
I see, so he really has never seen a wild banana, then.
Oh, great! I’ve been stalked by a bear for 3 or 4 years now. For real. One lives on the place.
He gets plenty to eat. Feral piglets, fox grapes. Wild turnips. Every bug you can imagine. And the pond is full of food a bear would eat. So I’m sure he’s not wanting my skinny ass for food.
I carry all manner of gear when we walk. My trusty Win. Bear spray. I wear bells. We’re loud.
I have a handgun, as well. I’ve been warned that’s not the weapon to choose, tho’.
And 4 chicken-livered dogs.
My CNA is always with me. She has bear spray as well.
I’m a jangly crazy lady clomping around in the woods.
Now I gotta tote a chainsaw?
I think I’d rather be bear chow.
I was half expecting [hoping?] a Kodiak bear to appear on screen, maul the two idiots, and eat the banana.
Not only would that have improved that video, it would have saved us from the horror of Kirk Cameron acting again.
Indeed, Growing Pains was not intelligently designed by casting Cameron on that show (not that is was intelligently designed in other respects, either).
what about an LP? Wouldn’t a whole album be more effective against the bear than just singles? Especially if it was like OddJob’s hat?
You’re no ding-a-ling!
You know how they say you can tell apart a black bear and a grizzly bear? The grizzly has bells stuck in its teeth and its mouth smells like bear spray…